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Satellite Dishes and Other Antennas
Dear Sir/Madam
SATELLITE DISHES AND OTHER ANTENNAS: CONSULTATION PAPER ON POSSIBLE CHANGES TO PLANNING REGULATIONS
We are inviting written responses to this consultation paper by Friday 9 th July 2004. For ease a consultation response questionnaire is attached to this letter.
Please send your response to:
satellite&antennasconsult@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
or
Marie Ferguson
Planning 1:1
Scottish Executive
2-H (Bridge)
Victoria Quay
Edinburgh
EH6 6QQ
If you have any queries please contact Marie Ferguson on 0131 244 7067.
We would be grateful if you could clearly indicate in your response which questions or parts of the consultation paper you are responding to (using the consultation questionnaire if appropriate) as this will aid our analysis of the responses received.
For future engagement:
If you wish to access this consultation paper online, go to www.scotland.gov.uk/view/views.asp . You can telephone freephone 0800 77 1234 to find out where your nearest public internet access point is, if you prefer to submit your response by e-mail to satellite&antennasconsult@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
SEConsult
A new e-mail alert system for SE consultations (SEconsult) was launched in December 2003. This system will allow stakeholder individuals and organisations to register and receive a weekly e-mail containing details of all new SE consultations (including web links). SEconsult will complement, but in no way replace SE distribution lists, and is designed to allow stakeholders to 'keep an eye' on all SE consultation activity, and therefore be alerted at the earliest opportunity to those of most interest. We encourage you to register as soon as possible.
Access to consultation responses
We will make all responses available to the public in the Scottish Executive Library by Friday 6 th August 2004, unless confidentiality is requested. All responses not marked confidential will be checked for any potentially defamatory material before being logged in the library or placed on the website.
Yours faithfully
ELIZABETH BAIRD
Head of Division
RESPONDEE INFORMATION FORM
The Scottish Executive Consultation Process
Consultation is an essential and important aspect of Scottish Executive working methods. Given the wide-ranging areas of work of the Scottish Executive, there are many varied types of consultation. However, in general Scottish Executive consultation exercises aim to provide opportunities for all those who wish to express their opinions on a proposed area of work to do so in ways which will inform and enhance that work.
While details of particular circumstances described in a response to a consultation exercise may usefully inform the policy process, consultation exercises cannot address individual concerns and comments, which should be directed to the relevant public body. Consultation exercises may involve seeking views in a number of different ways, such as public meetings, focus groups or questionnaire exercises.
Typically, Scottish Executive consultations involve a written paper invition answers to specific questions or more general views about the material presented. Written papers are distributed to organisations and individuals with an interest in the area of consultation, and they are also placed on the Scottish Executive web site enabling a wider audience to access the paper and submit their responses 1. Copies of all the responses received to consultation exercises (except those where the individual or organisation requested confidentiality) are placed in the Scottish Executive library at Saughton House, Edinburgh (K Spur, Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive, Edinburgh, Eh11 3XD, telephone 0131 244 4552).
The views and suggestions detailed in consultation responses are analysed and used as part of the decision making process. Depending on the nature of the consultation exercise the responses received may:
- Indicate the need for policy development or review
- Inform the development of a particular policy
- Help decisions to be made between alternative policy proposals
- Be used to finalise legislation before it is implemented
If you have any comment about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to:
Name: Michael Lowndes
Address: Planning Division
Scottish Executive
2-H Bridge
Victoria Quay
Edinburgh
EH6 6QQ
E-mail: michael.lowndes@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
1. www.scotland.gov.uk
CONSULTATION PAPER RESPONSE FORM
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