Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:39 pm on 26 November 2019.
Thank you very much. To address those points quickly, Project Skyline I think is a very exciting project. The first phase, as you know, was a feasibility study, looking at how communities could manage the landscape that surrounds their town or village. And the Green Valleys community interest company worked with Treherbert, Ynysowen and Caerau. Now, they've successfully put a bid into this fund, for the next phase, working with Welcome to Our Woods, to look at Ynysowen and Caerau, to take it into the next phase of development. And in itself it's an iterative experimental project. So, I'm very pleased that they emerged successful, and I'll be watching that project with interest.
On horticulture, I agree there is huge potential. I am meeting soon, I hope, with the Cardiff capital region to discuss how we can work together to look at the potential of horticulture, particularly within the Valleys taskforce. The Valleys taskforce itself has made a significant contribution to the experimental fund, and so there are a number of earmarked experimental projects in the taskforce area. We are setting up, through Josh Miles from the Federation of Small Businesses, a sub-group of the Valleys taskforce to look at grounded firms and the foundational economy to see how we can have a specific Valleys focus on that. And so I'd encourage the Member to give me more information about the company he mentioned to see whether or not there's potential for us to develop that further.