Ms Deirdre Scully:

That would be a concern for smaller local authorities with small towns where the scale of the investment and resources that could be seen accruing from zoning is not the same. As we mentioned earlier, there is always a risk in places where perhaps the RZLT is impacting on somebody who may not have been interested in bringing land forward. The issue of serviced land is wrapped in that, because there could be smaller towns and villages that are not fully serviced, yet they need to grow incrementally to accommodate their own natural growth and provide housing for the next generation. It is down to individual situations and the complexities involved when all of these processes are brought down and how it works out in areas like that, where it is not so clear or obvious, unlike, say, the major cities, where it is very clear there is process since there are many different types of landowners in an urban setting and many people interested in bringing land forward. In smaller towns and villages, where a council is actively trying to encourage growth and build up a town through the likes of the town centre first initiative, there may be sites that were zoned but where, for example, the water services are not up to scale yet. Those are elements that we will work through, but it needs to be borne in mind that there needs to be an element of sensitivity as all of the legislation impacts and rolls out.