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Okay. That is really helpful. Thank you.

I have a quick question. The planning process has neighbour notification, which means that people who will be affected by a change will be proactively notified, but, with the other regimes that would remain in place, whether that is licensing or roads, there is no neighbour notification, which means that there is a danger that people would need to proactively seek out any changes rather than being notified by an authority. Is that the case?

Thanks. I bring in Craig McArthur.

Alison MacLeod, do you have anything to add?

Okay.

Okay. Thanks for that.

I appreciate that the roads authority would look at it, but it would do so on a very technical basis to do with access and safety. I am more concerned about the noise and nuisance impact on families who live in the vicinity. To clarify, will any outdoor seated area require an amended licensing application? That would give local families and residents the opportunity to feed in their views to the licensing authority.

We are reviewing the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015. At the most basic level, has community participation improved since the introduction of the 2015 act? Has the act had any meaningful impact on such participation? Do you have anything to evidence an increase in the levels of participation? I will come to Alison McGrory first.

Thank you.

I wonder how the public get the opportunity to object to the appropriateness of an outdoor hospitality area. If you move into a town or village centre and are near a pub or restaurant, you know what you are going to and you know that, if the scope of that community is to change, you will, generally, get the opportunity to object to a planning application. There are many young families in the small towns and villages that I represent who live near a local pub and would not necessarily want to see outdoor seated areas, given the general noise that is associated with them. How will those people get an opportunity to have a say in how the area in the immediate vicinity of their house will change?