Dr. Conor Cashman:

I was referring to someone who filled out on an anonymous basis as to their concerns around planning, that if their children cannot get planning on the island, they will not be able to stay. It is a qualitative experience is being set out here rather than a huge list of these people, and it is anonymous anyway. We will be publishing the reasons for planning refusal in the report. As I mentioned earlier, a site being in an SAC is one of the key points but also alleged or purported lack of housing need is one of the points. Perhaps further research could be done to dig into that a bit more. Certainly the perception coming across from the survey from islanders is that planning is difficult to obtain and people being told that they do not have a housing need or whatever is having an impact on people's sense of security on the islands as well.