Committee
Environment and Rural Development Committee, 14 Feb 2007
14 Feb 2007 · S2 · Environment and Rural Development Committee
Item of business
Petition
National Parks (Scotland) Act 2000 (PE1011)
I do not want to open up any controversy. However, there must be lessons that can be learned from the way in which SNH and others operated the processes that were gone through for the land-based national parks in Loch Lomond and the Trossachs and the Cairngorms. Can we ask the minister if there is any significant difference in the way in which the process has been undertaken this time?
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The Convener:
Lab
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Eleanor Scott:
Green
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Nora Radcliffe:
LD
There is the classic tension between consultation—when things are not written in tablets of stone—and people wanting things to be written in tablets of stone...
The Convener:
Lab
Perhaps we can ask the minister to clarify the effect that the establishment of a national park might have on sea industries such as fishing and aquaculture....
Rob Gibson:
SNP
I do not want to open up any controversy. However, there must be lessons that can be learned from the way in which SNH and others operated the processes that...
The Convener:
Lab
That is fine. Can members think of anything else to put in the letter?
Members:
No.
The Convener:
Lab
Okay. Our next meeting will be on 21 February at 10 o'clock in committee room 5.
Meeting closed at 12:21.