Mr. Murty Hanly:

On the siting of new schools and engagement with local authorities in regard to their overall planning for towns and counties, we engage with them at a close level in the preparation of the development plans, the local area plans, all the other statutory and non-statutory urban framework plans and everything else. As they plan out a community, we are very much part of that conversation to ensure there is enough provision left for education facilities and that they are located in the appropriate places so that they serve the communities in close proximity to the residential areas.

We also have engagement with those bodies regarding the other schemes as they roll out, like active travel programmes, as they develop their measures on sustainable travel modes. We work very closely with them. It is a joint effort. They have responsibility for road safety and other areas they need to keep an eye on that are not just to do with access to a school. We are part of the conversation to ensure that there is availability of sustainable travel modes to schools as much as possible.

Mr. Kelly might speak to the technical guidance documents.