Ms Mary Henchy:

In my experience, specific planning policy requirements may be more applicable in some locations than others when you get down to site-specific analysis, or more applicable to some geographic locations within a county. That is the difficulty when one is writing a specific planning policy requirement for 31 local authorities.

I respectfully say that we have to crystallise our position on this, but consideration should be given on how and when it should go back to the members to see where it is more appropriate to look at it in a more granular way. I absolutely appreciate the authority of the Minister to provide that direction to us on it. However, it is then a matter of the translation of it down to the local level.

There is just one small point on the record that I would like to correct. I told Councillor Boyhan that there was no amendment to our scheme in our development plan. There was a piece in our development plan that we said we would bring forward. We have done so since. I never saw it as an amendment because we agreed to the members to say it. I apologise.