Mr. Philip Jones:

The answer is that it depends on the size of the UDZ. If it is a brownfield site, it is surrounded by people. There may well be as many people if not more than with a greenfield site at the edge of a built up area like Clonburris was. It is not so much about the size but rather the principle that the public and the developers who own the land should be involved at the earliest possible stage. There should be fairness to both sides at the early stage since neither a developer nor a third party can take an appeal against an individual development project. The North Lotts, as it was originally, in the docklands is a very small area but it contains an awful lot of development. It is not the scale of the site but rather the ambition of the development.