Ms Deirdre Scully:

No. I have only heard of a couple at this stage. However, in saying that, I have not done a thorough assessment across all of the local authorities. I know of two or three off the top of my head but that is anecdotal information. I have absolutely no idea. As I said, it is so new. The appeals have not even been processed yet. We do not know exactly what the outcome is. That is the beauty of local government. Each town and each area can drill into these and take local circumstances and environments into account and what the likelihood is of certain sites being developed and phase it in. They can recognise that zoning is not a permanent thing; it is reviewed and reconsidered in every development plan. Maybe the person would like to see land being used for future housing or whatever in the long term but they are not ready now. There is no harm in saying that this is a future site but we are not going to zone it. That is sometimes useful, particularly in planning infrastructure, to know what the general direction of travel of a particular town and how it will expand will be because we need to know that for drainage which operates on lifetime assessments and transport, traffic or any of those things. It is about trying to strike that balance and acknowledge that a site may not be zoned now but it may be zoned in the next development plan if the demand is there and if the core strategy fits with it. In saying that, it has to be down to each individual town to know exactly what it is and the local knowledge of the councillors in making those decisions as to where they zone and where they do not.