Mr. Eddie Taaffe:

My understanding of design and build is it is where the local authority uses a design and build procurement process. The local authority takes the housing scheme through the Part 8 process to get planning consent. Then, instead of doing the public works contract where one designs everything to the nth degree and gives it to a contractor to build, the preliminary design is passed over to a contractor who finishes the design and builds it. That is what we mean by design and build. It is still a local authority build on local authority land. That is the difference between those.