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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
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
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
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
Do you agree that NSAs should apply to landscape and seascape?
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
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
Will there be tighter restrictions in NSAs in relation to renewables?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
06 Sep 2006
Planning etc (Scotland) Bill
On general landscape issues, what constitutes an NSA is a matter of judgment. In fact, it can be an ever-changing picture. Does the current suite of NSAs represent the best of the scenery in Scotland? Do the public see being designated as an NSA as an accolade?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
06 Sep 2006
Planning etc (Scotland) Bill
I return to the point that Sally Thomas made about perhaps discouraging wind farms in NSAs. How would you overcome the problem of conveying electricity to the grid where an NSA might have to be crossed?
Dave Petrie: Con Committee
06 Sep 2006
Planning etc (Scotland) Bill
How will NSAs be linked to other rural development policies in Scotland?
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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
Who should be the primary beneficiaries of the approach: the people who live in NSAs or the people who visit NSAs?

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?