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That is very helpful. I understand that the desire is to have parity with what is going on in England, but there are some things going on in England with which we do not want parity, so it is important to look at the issue. Will the changes expand the ability to create non-port infrastructure?

Okay. Thanks very much for that. That has been helpful. We clearly have some pathways back, in case things start to go awry. I totally take on board the need to relieve pressure from local planning authorities, and I see that the measures do that, but, at the same time, we need to make sure that we are keeping communities in mind.

Thanks very much for laying that out. You touched on some of those things earlier, but it is good to hear that said again in a slightly different way so that we start to get clarity.

We are also interested in when this Scottish statutory instrument will be reviewed. How will you keep it under review? If problems start to arise, what is the process for that?

It is good to hear that the approach will involve continuous monitoring. As NPF4 is taken forward, there will be lots of changes and moving parts, and we will need to keep track of them and how they interact with each other.

I know that we use it often, too, but I love the metaphor of the journey that we are on and our direction of travel, and I hope that the work that the committee is doing and all the evidence that it is taking will help us move in the direction of putting communities even more at the heart of this work. Thank you so much for joining us today.

The committee agreed at the start of the meeting to take the next item in private. As this evidence-taking session was the last public item on our agenda, I close the public part of the meeting.

It is good to hear about different approaches. I keep wondering whether a way to include young people would be to make community planning part of the school curriculum. Young people who are studying for a higher could be part of a community planning partnership and weigh in on that.

I digress. I will bring in Mark Griffin, who will ask about community empowerment.

I thank the minister for spending time with us and for allowing us to go into detail in our scrutiny.

If you find that there is the potential for there to be wall-mounted EV charging points on one or some of those 105 buildings, we could look at an amending order. There is great concern for safety.

We will move on to local outcomes improvement plans and locality plans.

I was interested to hear from Alison MacLeod about awareness of consultation fatigue in Aberdeenshire, and that you have joined up locality plans so that you have coinciding priorities and streamlined processes. We are aware that there is a potentially cluttered landscape with so many plans. I am interested to hear from all of you about LOIPs and the locality plans and how they are working. In particular, CPPs have been set up to take the preventative approach. Are the strategic plans helping us to achieve that outcome? I start with Alison MacLeod.

Thanks for that.