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Covering Letter
Dear Sir or Madam
CONSULTATION ON ACTION PLANNING GUIDANCE UNDER THE ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE DIRECTIVE.
Responding to this consultation paper
We are inviting written responses to this consultation paper by 12 October 2007. In particular we are seeking responses to the following main questions
Do you agree with the approach outlined on how we take forward the action plan work?
Are the action planning groups proposed along the right lines both on subject matter and membership?
Please send your response to:
Noise@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
or
Water, Air, Soils and Flooding Division, Air Noise and Nuisance Team, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ
If you have any queries contact Linda Story on 0131 244 1521.
We would be grateful if you would use the consultation questionnaire provided or could clearly indicate in your response which questions or parts of the consultation paper you are responding to as this will aid our analysis of the responses received.
This consultation, and all other Scottish Executive consultation exercises, can be viewed online on the consultation web pages of the Scottish Executive website at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations . You can telephone Freephone 0800 77 1234 to find out where your nearest public internet access point is.
The Scottish Executive now has an email alert system for consultations (SEconsult: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations/seconsult.aspx ). This system allows stakeholder individuals and organisations to register and receive a weekly email containing details of all new consultations (including web links). SE consult complements, but in no way replaces SE distribution lists, and is designed to allow stakeholders to keep up to date with all SE consultation activity, and therefore be alerted at the earliest opportunity to those of most interest. We would encourage you to register.
Handling your response
We need to know how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are happy for your response to be made public. Please complete and return the Respondent Information Form attached to this letter as this will ensure that we treat your response appropriately. If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly.
All respondents should be aware that the Scottish Executive are subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to responses made to this consultation exercise.
Next steps in the process
Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public ( see the attached Respondent Information Form), these will be made available to the public in the Scottish Executive Library and on the Scottish Executive consultation web pages. We will check all responses where agreement to publish has been given for any potentially defamatory material before logging them in the library or placing them on the website. You can make arrangements to view responses by contacting the SE Library on 0131 244 4552. Responses can be copied and sent to you, but a charge may be made for this service.
What happens next ?
Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help us reach a decision on the guidance. We aim to issue a report on this consultation process on the Scottish Executive website.
Comments and complaints
If you have any comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please
send them to:
Linda Story
Water, Air, Soils and Flooding Division,
Air Noise and Nuisance Team,
Victoria Quay,
Edinburgh EH6 6QQ
E-mail: Linda.story@scotland.gsi.gov.uk .
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