§ 40. Mr. Douglasasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the number of recent projects for which planning permission involving a change in land use has been granted in connection with providing facilities, on shore, for the servicing of the oil industry.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellProposals arising from future North Sea oil operations are at the discussion stage with several local planning authorities. A few applications have so far been made, but only in certain cases do such matters come to me for decision. In one of these cases I was able recently to issue very quickly a direction which opened the way for sea platform construction in the Cromarty Firth.