Ms Suzanne Campion:

We have 35 enhancement projects going into delivery. To give an example, there is an issue with particular groups of anglers who want to develop the rivers. They have access to allow them to do the work but they do not have permission from the county council to do the work or they do not know what the planning status is. We have met the planning authority and the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, and we have told them that they need to have a pre-planning meeting with the planning authority and there may be no planning permission needed. We cannot give the anglers public money to deliver a project in somebody else's river. They will not do that because they are afraid that access to the river will be taken away completely. One can understand that a farmer might become anxious that his ownership will be called into question when somebody else is apply for planning permission to do works in a river. There are many issues to be ironed out. We do not demand planning permission, we just want to know what the status is.