Una Duggan
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And so what we had was an opportunity where we showed that these are important areas.
These are areas of medium, low, high sensitivity for birds.
We do, but we need more than that, Philip.
When you're talking about speeding things up, we need a lot more data.
I know people say there's enough data, but we actually need to have the data collated in one place in a national repository where people can access it and research it.
There's surveys going on all around the country and not everybody has access to that data.
We need ecologists in all the local authorities and at every section of regulatory planning.
And I have a whole list of things that we need government to really do to try to include better implementation.
But the problem is now we still have developer led wind farm planning onshore, which ends up getting stuck in the planning process where
if this sensitivity mapping is done, then perhaps it wouldn't be just, you know, if it was adhered to, that it wouldn't be just, you know, people making deals on the ground.