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Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
It strikes me that environmental issues will play a major part. Consider how popular the west Highland way has become and how much damage has been caused—well, perhaps not damage, but consider the on-going maintenance that is required. Will that become an issue as national sce...
Dave Petrie (Highlands and Islands) (Con): Con Committee
06 Sep 2006
Planning etc (Scotland) Bill
What consultation has taken place with the Crofters Commission, bearing in mind that consideration of the Crofting Reform etc Bill has revealed serious problems with some of the crofting records? I am thinking of a place such as Taynuilt, where development was allowed, but it ...
Dave Petrie (Highlands and Islands) (Con): Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Following the extensive consultation that has taken place, do the witnesses feel that there has been a robust enough debate about what constitutes one of Scotland's accolade landscape designations?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Do you think that the definitions in the Scottish Executive consultation are clear enough? I come from Argyll and Bute. In places such as the Kyles of Bute, the attraction is the sea view as much as the landscape. Does the sea have a part to play here?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Who should be the primary beneficiaries of NSAs—those who live in them or those who visit them?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
The economy featured throughout your response; is the Scottish economy a major beneficiary of the approach?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Will the proposed NSA management strategies be subject to the requirements of the Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Act 2005?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Will there be an overriding strategy or policy document for all NSAs on which a strategic environmental assessment can be done?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Yes.
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
How closely do the major stakeholders in the set-up—SNH, VisitScotland and the Forestry Commission Scotland—work together on landscape issues? For example, would they jointly consider the impacts of climate change on the landscape?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
You can give a general answer.
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Is there not a link, though?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Will resources for tackling any environmental damage be made available? Do you consider that to be an issue?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Following the Executive's consultation, do you consider that the debate about what constitutes one of Scotland's accolade landscape designations has been robust enough?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Economic benefits?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Are the definitions in the Executive consultation clear enough?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Who should be the primary beneficiaries of the approach: the people who live in NSAs or the people who visit NSAs?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Do you all agree that the NSA designation brings economic benefits to the area and to Scotland in general?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Do you anticipate resistance from locals to an influx of visitors as a result of the higher profile of NSAs?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Highland Council and Dumfries and Galloway Council have, in partnership with SNH, been involved with pilot NSA management strategies. However, in light of the result of the pilots, they take different views on whether such strategies should be voluntary or mandatory. Can any m...
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
So, for you, the bottom line is that management strategies are an additional burden on councils because they require financial resources.
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Has the debate about what constitutes landscape accolade designation been robust enough? Are the definitions in the Scottish Executive consultation clear enough?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Do you agree that NSAs should apply to landscape and seascape?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Does anyone else want to comment on that?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Let us turn to the primary beneficiaries of NSAs. Is it your belief that it is the people who live in them or the people who visit them who are the major beneficiaries?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Do you foresee resistance—from people who live in the areas—to the intrusion of other people coming into those remote and secluded areas?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
You probably heard this question earlier, but do you consider that the debate around what constitutes one of Scotland's "accolade" landscape designations has been robust enough? Are the definitions in the Executive consultation clear enough?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Who do you think the primary beneficiaries of NSAs should be? Should it be those who live in them or those who visit them?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
You do not see any conflict arising from such places becoming a lot busier because of being promoted and so on.
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
07 Jun 2006
National Scenic Areas
Will there be tighter restrictions in NSAs in relation to renewables?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
04 Oct 2006
Planning etc (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
As a novice in the Parliament, I suspect that this provision has not gone through the due parliamentary process. Only the minister can say why the matter was not raised earlier. Who judges what constitutes a national scenic area? Is there going to be public participation in th...
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
24 Jan 2007
Community Engagement <br />(Draft Planning Advice Note)
I have a final, succinct question. Why did you consider that the national standards for community engagement were ideally suited to the planning system?
Dave Petrie (Highlands and Islands) (Con): Con Committee
13 Feb 2007
Schools (Health Promotion and Nutrition) (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2
At the outset, I say that I fully support the aims and objectives of the bill. I seek to amend only one aspect, which relates to children with special needs. When we discussed the issue with the National Autistic Society, it expressed concerns not only about autistic children ...
Dave Petrie (Highlands and Islands) (Con): Con Chamber
03 May 2006
Voluntary Sector Funding
I am pleased to speak in my first members' business debate, and I congratulate Donald Gorrie on bringing a worthy topic to our attention.I am delighted to have the opportunity to address a topic that is close to my heart, as I know it is to the hearts of other members. In my p...
Dave Petrie (Highlands and Islands) (Con): Con Chamber
11 May 2006
Council Tax and Pensioner Poverty
I thank you for your warm welcome to the chamber, Presiding Officer—nothing to do with the fire, of course.It is patently obvious that there is no palatable way in which to fund essential local services. However, the most important provision that we want from our local authori...
Dave Petrie (Highlands and Islands) (Con): Con Chamber
17 May 2006
Planning etc (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I echo Patrick Harvie's and Christine Grahame's thanks to the clerks, witnesses and Communities Committee colleagues for their excellent support.I declare an interest as a former Scottish Water manager. When the Planning etc (Scotland) Bill was introduced to Parliament on 19 D...
Dave Petrie (Highlands and Islands) (Con): Con Chamber
14 Jun 2006
Carers Week 2006
I thank Cathy Peattie for bringing the debate to the chamber. Many of us, at some point in our lives, will either be carers or need carers, or both. It is a consequence of the fragility of our society. As one who is related to carers, who is involved with those who care for el...
Dave Petrie (Highlands and Islands) (Con): Con Chamber
28 Jun 2006
Race Equality
I apologise for the state of my voice. I assure members that it has nothing to do with the world cup. It gives me great pleasure to open this important and worthwhile debate on behalf of my party. The Conservative party has always recognised the value of immigration and migran...
Dave Petrie: Con Chamber
27 Sep 2006
Crofting Reform etc Bill: Stage 1
I am sorry. I have an awful lot to get through.The bill's proposals for a new system—and its ignoring of systems that are in place—do nothing to address the need to monitor the crofting system. There is such derisory regulation of crofting tenure that proposals would be ignore...
Dave Petrie: Con Chamber
31 Jan 2007
Health Board Elections (Scotland) Bill: Stage 1
I cannot agree with that.There are arguments against the bill. The national health service is centrally planned. Elected members could inhibit centrally planned initiatives and entrench a postcode-lottery system. Turnout for the elections would almost certainly be low, which w...
Dave Petrie (Highlands and Islands) (Con): Con Chamber
15 Feb 2007
Education
The debate has been good. As another former teacher, I have experienced HMIE inspections, which I found to be fair, balanced and comprehensive, with any identified shortcomings followed up, often with necessary staff changes, as Peter Peacock said. HMIE's responsibility runs f...
Dave Petrie: Con Chamber
22 Mar 2007
Education
I am sorry, but I have a lot to get through.Attainment is clearly important to pupils and parents, but the Executive has not prioritised it.Lib-Lab policies are damaging our education system, but the Scottish National Party's proposals are just as reckless. It is astounding th...
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Committee

Communities Committee, 07 Jun 2006

07 Jun 2006 · S2 · Communities Committee
Item of business
National Scenic Areas
Petrie, Dave Con Highlands and Islands Watch on SPTV
It strikes me that environmental issues will play a major part. Consider how popular the west Highland way has become and how much damage has been caused—well, perhaps not damage, but consider the on-going maintenance that is required. Will that become an issue as national scenic areas become more popular?

In the same item of business

The Convener (Karen Whitefield): Lab
I open the 19th meeting in 2006 of the Communities Committee. I remind all those present that mobile phones should be turned off. I have received apologies f...
Sally Thomas (Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department):
Yes. We were asked to provide an introductory statement to set the scene.National scenic areas are areas of Scotland that are nationally important because of...
The Convener: Lab
Thank you for your introductory statement. You said that 66 people responded to the consultation. What themes emerged?
Sally Thomas:
We asked a series of questions in the consultation paper, around which the majority of responses were structured. People gave their views on the basis of the...
The Convener: Lab
Have the respondents generally supported the Executive's proposals?
Sally Thomas:
That depends on which element of the proposals you are talking about. There has been a good level of response in relation to the basis of the designation and...
Scott Barrie (Dunfermline West) (Lab): Lab
Why does the Executive believe that encouragement would be enough to deliver management strategies, rather than going for a statutory process?
Sally Thomas:
Management strategies have a number of purposes, but we believe that a light-touch approach is most appropriate for the management of NSAs. The majority of t...
Scott Barrie: Lab
You said that the respondents were split on this question. Was the split across the board, or did it, for example, have a geographical or organisational basis?
Sally Thomas:
I am afraid that I will have to come back to you with that analysis.
The Convener: Lab
Do you think that the Executive's amendments to the Planning etc (Scotland) Bill will reflect the concerns that have been expressed in the consultation?
Sally Thomas:
The aim of the consultation is to seek views on the matter, and we hope to be able to take into account as many views as we can within the bill's confines.
The Convener: Lab
Is the Executive being a little premature in suggesting changes to national scenic areas before the proposed Scottish landscape forum has been established? W...
Sally Thomas:
I should point out that the landscape forum is being established by SNH with the Executive's support.SNH reviewed NSAs several years ago, and we now feel tha...
The Convener: Lab
Would the stakeholders have had more confidence in the proposed changes if, instead of the Executive simply consulting them, they had helped to reach the con...
Sally Thomas:
The proposals in the SNH review, which was widely publicised, received widespread support from stakeholders, who for some time now have been asking for this ...
The Convener: Lab
Is it not the case that, although stakeholders might feel that the measure is necessary, they think that the Executive has handled it wrongly and that, by no...
Sally Thomas:
As that opinion has not been directly expressed to us, I find it quite difficult to comment on it.
The Convener: Lab
I call Tricia Marwick.
Tricia Marwick (Mid Scotland and Fife) (SNP): SNP
I will wait until the next section of questions, convener.
Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): SNP
I wonder whether the rest of the panel have any comments to make on stage 2 amendments and the question of the Scottish landscape forum. I do not think that ...
The Convener: Lab
Christine, I was not aware that you had become the convener of the committee.
Christine Grahame: SNP
I haven't, but—
The Convener: Lab
If any of the witnesses had indicated a desire to speak, I would have let them do so. At no point have I suggested that no one can speak.
Christine Grahame: SNP
I certainly did not mean to imply that, convener.
Dave Petrie (Highlands and Islands) (Con): Con
Following the extensive consultation that has taken place, do the witnesses feel that there has been a robust enough debate about what constitutes one of Sco...
John Thomson (Scottish Natural Heritage):
I reiterate what Sally Thomas has just said. We are not talking just about the one-off consultation that took place recently. There has been extensive discus...
Dave Petrie: Con
Do you think that the definitions in the Scottish Executive consultation are clear enough? I come from Argyll and Bute. In places such as the Kyles of Bute, ...
John Thomson:
Absolutely. One difficulty with which we struggle at the moment—not just in relation to landscape, but more generally—is the fact that there are very differe...
Dave Petrie: Con
Who should be the primary beneficiaries of NSAs—those who live in them or those who visit them?