Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 2:08 pm on 1 February 2017.
One of the logjams that happen in this area, though, Minister, is within local councils that have to grant the applications of the various schemes that come forward. Do you believe that local councils are adequately knowledgeable of the benefits of local community schemes and, in fact, adequately knowledgeable of the best way of promoting them, whether it’s wind power, whether it’s river energy, or whatever it might be? Do we need to have further discussions or do you need to have further discussions with the Cabinet Secretary for local government as to how we might be able to encourage the removal of this logjam throughout Wales, so that we can get more of these schemes up and running?