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Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

27 Nov 2002

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

04 Dec 2002

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

It is important that integration of river basin plans and sub-basin plans be delivered with the other planning frameworks, and amendment 104 would provide for that. Amendment 144 is slightly different. There are currently no appeal or scrutiny procedures for river basin manage...

Nora Radcliffe (Gordon) (LD): LD Chamber

30 Oct 2002

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

The bill is self-evidently in three parts. Part 1 transposes the water framework directive and part 2 completes the regulatory framework for Scottish Water. I flag up the importance of private water supplies. Although they are the responsibility not of Scottish Water, but of l...

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

04 Dec 2002

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

I welcome amendment 147. Amendment 147A relates to how we define sub-basin plans or areas. For those to be meaningful, we should think in terms of catchments or groups of catchments that would form a geographical area. It would be helpful to define a "geographical area" as a c...

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

04 Dec 2002

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

I welcome the Executive amendments. I hope that they will achieve what we want—a network of sub-basin plans across Scotland that will enable people to become involved locally and will be far more meaningful than the Scotland-wide river basin plan. However, I am not sure whethe...

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

25 May 2005

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003: Annual Report 2004

That clears that up.The report points out the massive diversity throughout Scotland in impacts and geographical status. Will more localised sub-river-basin planning take place as part of the overall river basin management plan, for which the whole of Scotland is taken as one r...

Nora Radcliffe: LD Chamber

29 Jan 2003

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

Amendment 4 would tighten up the definition of wetlands. I have no problem with that.On amendments 6 and 7, I can accept that the references to surface water and wetlands should be removed because they would naturally be included in the characterisation of a river basin, where...

Nora Radcliffe: LD Chamber

29 Jan 2003

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

Amendment 16 is to be welcomed, as the phrase "have regard to" will apply equally to river basin plans and sub-basin plans. However, it would be useful to clarify that the geographical areas referred to in some sub-basin plans would be expected to be based largely on river cat...

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

10 Dec 2003

Subordinate Legislation

A fair chunk of Scotland is in the cross-border river basin district. When we come to designate sub-river basin districts, will they be administered south of the border or north of the border?

Nora Radcliffe (Gordon) (LD): LD Chamber

29 Jan 2003

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

Amendment 84 seeks to ensure that information relating to sustainable flood management measures will be included in the river basin management plan. The amendment does not require direct action on flooding, but would ensure that the information about what is being done by bodi...

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

10 May 2000

Subordinate Legislation

The algal bloom has been in the estuary as long as anybody can remember. It comes and goes. It used to be disturbed physically when sea-trout fishing was carried out by local estates. People used to harrow out the weed and, as Brian Adam said, occasionally it would be swept aw...

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

11 Sep 2002

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

What arrangements should be made for cross-border river basins, particularly given that the nautical limit for river basin management plans has not yet been established in England and Wales?

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

11 Sep 2002

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

How does Andrew Wallace envisage district salmon fishery boards working with regard to river basin planning? You will have had experience of working with river catchment management programmes. What have you learned from that experience?

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

20 Nov 2002

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

Yes, certainly. As the minister says, people have bent their minds to the matter over weeks, months and years, but I think that it is important to include wetlands explicitly. I want to press my amendment and perhaps invite a definition that the Executive is happy with and tha...

Nora Radcliffe (Gordon) (LD): LD Chamber

29 Jan 2003

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill

I endorse the thanks that colleagues have expressed to all those who have contributed to the bill.The bill is about the sustainable management of Scotland's water resource. We have a lot of it—30,000 freshwater lochs and 7,000 river systems. Sustainable management will impinge...

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

10 May 2000

Subordinate Legislation

I did not lodge this motion lightly or without considerable thought. These are the first designation regulations to be proposed since the establishment of the Scottish Parliament and they will have a fairly weighty effect on the farming population in the area. It seemed to me ...

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

18 Sep 2002

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I want to return to the question of basing sub-basin plans on sectors or communities of interest rather than on spatial or geographical factors. What are your views on such horizontal or vertical sub-basin plans?

Nora Radcliffe (Gordon) (LD): LD Committee

10 Dec 2003

Subordinate Legislation

I presume that the bits of the country that we have missed out will not be designated until England and Wales get round to designating their river basin district.

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

10 Dec 2003

Subordinate Legislation

Westminster will designate the cross-border river basin district, even though the relevant legislation is not yet in place.

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

10 Dec 2003

Subordinate Legislation

Is that because more of the groundwater is across the line, in the cross-border river basin district?

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

31 Mar 2004

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003: Annual Report to Parliament 2003

I forgot about another issue that I wanted to raise. The report is the first such annual report. We are still at the high-level stage on all the preliminary work that must be done on characterisation, typology and so on. Are you thinking about the stage at which we will involv...

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

17 May 2006

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003

I want to be clear that there is no bar on applying funding made available under the 1961 act to measures such as land acquisition or compensation to landowners for flood mitigation that allows flooding further upstream. That might all be dealt with more holistically when we s...

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

27 Sep 2006

Aquaculture and Fisheries (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

I presume that that will feed into river basin planning and so on under the water framework directive, so it is part of a bigger whole.

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

11 Sep 2002

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

A national river basin forum was mentioned. Will you expand on the difficulties involved in establishing national standards, as water is so site specific? How will flexibility, which is the water framework directive's whole point, be retained?

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

04 Dec 2002

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

Amendment 133 asks for a summary of the changes that are made to the river basin management plan in the light of the advice that is received from advisory groups under section 17(2). The amendment would strengthen the role of the advisory groups and ensure that they were not o...

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

04 Dec 2002

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

In the light of the minister's assurance that a mechanism for appeal exists for those who are not satisfied with river basin management plans, I will not move amendment 144.

Nora Radcliffe: LD Chamber

29 Jan 2003

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 3

If sub-basin plans refer to geographical areas, that gives a degree of flexibility, but I would expect them to be based largely on river catchments, because that will be the most logical thing for them to be based on in most cases.

Nora Radcliffe (Gordon) (LD): LD Chamber

08 Sep 2004

Scottish Executive's Programme

Like Alex Johnstone, my interest is in the green thread of the Executive's programme. The most obviously environmental legislation that is coming up is the strategic environmental assessment bill. I have a sense of déjà vu: as a district councillor, I was able to have a protoc...

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

02 Feb 2005

Climate Change Inquiry

I want to take advantage of the fact that we have a witness who has direct experience of flood alleviation. You say quite a lot in your submission about what might be called the bureaucratic barriers to the work that you do in putting flood protection measures in place. What o...

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

20 Nov 2002

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

I want to say first that I am delighted to support amendment 109. It is excellent that provision for sustainable flood management has been included in the bill. People would have been very surprised if we had not included that, and I am delighted to welcome that amendment.I to...

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

04 Dec 2002

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

Yes. If we are to have meaningful sub-basin plans, it is important that either amendment 92 or amendment 128 be agreed to.I move amendment 128.

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

12 Nov 2003

Nature Conservation (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

My question is about the area of search and spatial units. Would there be merit in tying those into river basins in the context of the water framework directive? Is this an opportunity for a bit of joined-up thinking?

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

31 Mar 2004

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003: Annual Report to Parliament 2003

I presume that when risk assessments have been done, the particular water catchment areas that are most at risk and on which the most work needs to be done will be defined as sub-river basins for management purposes.

Nora Radcliffe (Gordon) (LD): LD Committee

26 May 2004

River Teith Candidate Special Area of Conservation

I think so. It is important for us to be assured that the mitigation measures are appropriate, effective and enforceable. It sounds as though the promoter and SNH are nearing something that will ensure that. It would be useful to have sight of the agreement before our meeting ...

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

26 May 2004

River Teith Candidate Special Area of Conservation

We want the information by 3 June so that we can consider it properly before our meeting on 9 June.

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

09 Jun 2004

Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage

In order to ensure that the authorised undertaker provides the necessary mitigation measures to avoid an adverse environmental impact on the River Teith candidate special area of conservation, the promoter will enter into an enforceable agreement with Scottish Natural Heritage...

Nora Radcliffe: LD Committee

04 Dec 2002

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

I accept the technical arguments that the wording would not deliver the holistic answer that we are all trying to get at. I would still be happier if there were some way of indicating geographical areas and whole river systems with their coastal adjuncts, but I do not know whe...

Nora Radcliffe (Gordon) (LD): LD Chamber

20 Dec 2006

Aquaculture and Fisheries (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1

It is fair to say that the bill was introduced after a lot of good work had already been done to bring together the different interests of fish farming, shellfish farming and angling. The bill will provide powers to support the aquaculture industry and to ensure continued conf...

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Transport and the Environment Committee, 27 Nov 2002

27 Nov 2002 · S1 · Transport and the Environment Committee

Item of business

Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2

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Amendment 36 is important because it would be meaningless to talk about a river basin district that covered almost the whole of Scotland and it would be difficult to get proper involvement in planning for a river basin district for the whole of Scotland. If the bill is to be implemented with the active participation that is a feature of it, we must break down any river basin district that covers virtually the whole of Scotland. Amendment 36A, in the name of Maureen Macmillan, would improve my amendment by replacing the phrase "geographical area" with the word "catchments", which is more sensible. If we are considering the water environment, it is obvious and sensible to act in terms of river catchment areas.The purpose of amendment 128 in my name is to say that a sub-basin plan should contain the same information and requirements as a river basin management plan. It is crucial that the bill include a requirement that we take sub-basin districts and planning seriously, because those will be the front line where the real work of implementing the water framework directive will be. It is important that we do it properly. The other amendment in my name is amendment 132, which is a consequential amendment.I move amendment 36.