Mr. Gavin Lawlor:

As I said, it is three years minimum for the development plan. One then needs to look very carefully to at least two to three years for the balance. It depends on how many plans a planning authority has. If it has just one, then a year is fine but most planning authorities have multiple plans for multiple towns. It needs to be judged on a case-by-case basis. Generally, what happens at the moment is that depending on the length of the development plan that one uses, it goes from the planning team which does the development plan, where it might do town 1, town 2, town 3, and so on.