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CONSULTATION ON STRATEGIC NOISE ACTION PLAN FOR EDINBURGH
Responding to this consultation paper
We are inviting written responses to this consultation paper by 21 July 2008
Please send your response to:
Noise@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
or
Air, Noise and Nuisance Team, Area 1G, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ
If you have any queries contact Linda Story on 0131 244 1521.
We would be grateful if you 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 Government consultation exercises, can be viewed online on the consultation web pages of the Scottish Government 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 Government now has an email alert system for consultations (SEconsult: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations/seconsult.aspx ). This system allows stakeholders individuals and organisations to register and receive a weekly email containing details of all new consultations (including web links). SGconsult complements, but in no way replaces SG distribution lists, and is designed to allow stakeholders to keep up to date with all SG 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 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 If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential, and we will treat it accordingly.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 Government 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 Government Library and on the Scottish Government 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 SG 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 finalise the action plans. Thereafter the plans will be the subject of a strategic environmental assessment consultation exercise in the Autumn before the final plan is published in January 2009.
Comments and complaints
If you have any comments about how this consultation exercise has been conducted, please send them to:
Linda Story
Air, Noise and Nuisance Team
Area 1G,
Victoria Quay
Edinburgh EH6 6QQ:
E-mail: Linda.story@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
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