Alasdair Morgan: ...authority areas, in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding between Scottish Water and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency on the management of development constraints caused by sewerage systems and waste water treatment works.
Alasdair Morgan: ...review of capacity, in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding between Scottish Water and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency on the management of development constraints caused by sewerage systems and waste water treatment works.
Alasdair Morgan: ...capacity and constraints in all local authority areas, in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding between Scottish Water and SEPA on the management of development constraints caused by sewerage systems and waste water treatment works.
Alasdair Morgan: ...the review of capacity promised in the Memorandum of Understanding between Scottish Water and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency on the management of development constraints caused by sewerage systems and waste water treatment works and whether the Executive receives regular progress reports on the matter.
Alasdair Morgan: Given that the ability to connect to mains sewerage is one of the main obstacles to the development of affordable housing and other housing in rural areas, is the minister happy with the progress that Scottish Water is making on developing its plans for quality and standards III?
Alasdair Morgan: What mechanisms will the Executive put in place to co-ordinate the award of funding with Scottish Water initiatives under quality and standards III to remove sewerage constraints?
Alasdair Morgan: ...a presumption against development, although the countryside is by no means full. Even when people receive planning permission, the chances of their being connected to Scottish Water's water or sewerage system is remote. The environment and culture committee will launch a major inquiry into renewable energy at the beginning of January.
Alasdair Morgan: To ask the Scottish Executive whether allowing leachate from Lochar Moss waste disposal site, Dumfries, to be piped directly into the public sewerage system for treatment, as proposed by Dumfries and Galloway Council, is the best practicable environmental option, as defined in paragraph 36 of National Planning Policy Guideline: NPPG 10 - Planning and Waste Management .
Alasdair Morgan: To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take to reduce the impact on small businesses of increased standing charges for the provision of water and sewerage services.
Alasdair Morgan: ...and Galloway on the basis of low numbers? Is he aware that, at the same time, young families with children who wish to move into communities there cannot get houses because of the effect of sewerage constraints on building programmes? Does he think that we need more co-ordination on those issues? Will he say when the cross-cutting ministerial group on rural development will next meet and...
Alasdair Morgan: ...permission only to find that West of Scotland Water objects at the stage at which the builder seeks permission to connect to the mains. At such a late stage, West of Scotland Water has said that no sewerage capacity is available. Small builders cannot afford the outlay in such instances. It is ironic that the minister who has responsibility for rural development is, at the same time,...
Alasdair Morgan: ...lie in the fact that the system is property based, as we discussed in the previous debate, and unrelated in any direct way to the ability of people to pay. We also all agree that water and sewerage services are a special case. By and large, they are not an option that one can buy into or buy out of; they are services that we must have. The council tax, for all its faults, at least has a...