20 Medi 2021 , Equality and Social Justice Committee
Cyflwyniad, ymddiheuriadau a dirprwyon
Good afternoon, everybody. I'd like to welcome you all—Members, Ministers and members of the public—to this meeting of the Equality and Social Justice Committee. This is our first scrutiny session in this sixth Parliament. In accordance with Standing Order…
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4 – Seilwaith
I accept there is pollution going on from other sources as well, but I'm talking specifically about sewage.
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4 – Seilwaith
Thank you. I just wanted to ask you: what does it take to ensure that discharging sewage into the water, into rivers and seas, is a never event?
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4 – Seilwaith
I think it isn't just in roads that public procurement is just not delivering, because recently I've been made aware that an annex to a community hall to attach to a school, only built 10 years ago, is having to be torn down. So, clearly, the procurement…
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4 – Seilwaith
I think I wanted to probe you specifically on the infrastructure and planning process, to ensure that we haven’t got poor planning decisions that are just adding to the problem and adding to our carbon emissions in the future.
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4 – Seilwaith
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16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 4 – Seilwaith
I just wanted to come in on water and whether or not Dŵr Cymru as a statutory consultee has sufficient clout to stop developments that are still planning to flush grey water into the sewage system. It obviously hugely increases the carbon emissions of you…
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3 – Cynllunio
I accept that we shouldn't be turning down applications just because Nimbys don't like it, but where you get applications approved for building on the small amount of green space in a community, you do wonder really whether the planning process is strong…
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3 – Cynllunio
Thank you very much. I just want to test whether the problem is that developers are so arrogant because they know they still have most of the tools they need to insist that whatever they want to do to maximise profits will happen. Because if communities are…
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3 – Cynllunio
Okay. I could go on for half an hour—
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3 – Cynllunio
Okay. But you appreciate that it's a work in progress for developers to understand the importance of good-quality planning of environment, with a decent green space for children to play in, and all those issues, and we are a very long way from where we need…
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3 – Cynllunio
Okay. Well, I think that we can all agree that the community at large has yet to really understand just how critical the climate emergency is. So, how are we going to turn the corner, and how crucial is implementing 'Future Wales' to making that change in…
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3 – Cynllunio
And the Planning (Wales) Act 2015 embedded the idea that we deal with most of the problems before they ever got anywhere near any planning committee, by consulting communities and by negotiations with developers. But how far along that, in terms of the change…
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3 – Cynllunio
Okay. That neatly moves us onto my next question, which is how planning can contribute to decarbonisation. Roisin, in your paper, you say that the planning system can prevent locking in inefficient high-carbon infrastructure, but clearly, the evidence is all…
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3 – Cynllunio
Roisin, you wanted to come in.
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 3 – Cynllunio
Okay. Vicky, I just wanted to pick up on the auditor general's report, and the Public Accounts Committee recommendation that planning authorities are simply not charging enough. I appreciate you're doing collaborative working on specialist areas, but you're…
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2 – Trafnidiaeth
However, it is 'get on with it' time, given that we've got to reduce our carbon emissions by two thirds by 2030, which is the day after tomorrow in planning terms. So, Chris Yarsley and Mark Simmons, what is your strategy for helping us achieve that?
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2 – Trafnidiaeth
I wanted to ask about what you're doing to decarbonise your transport mechanisms. It seems to me there are two ways of doing it. One is electrification of vehicles, as long as the electricity they're using is from renewable energy, and we obviously have a…
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2 – Trafnidiaeth
Thank you. I just wanted to pick up on what Mark said in an earlier answer, which is around the role of transporting goods by sea or by water. I just wondered if you thought that transporting goods by barge along canals, as well as hopping from one port to…
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2 – Trafnidiaeth
Thank you. Chris Yarsley, the Deputy Minister has talked about having a hub-and-spoke way of delivering goods to market. In an ultra-urban community like mine, we have very large vehicles clogging up quite small roads delivering to shops. I just wonder what…
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2 – Trafnidiaeth
Okay. Do you think this is an opportunity to, for example, get more of the goods arriving into the ports being put onto rail before they actually get to their final destination by four-wheel vehicle?
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2 – Trafnidiaeth
Is it an opportunity to—? I'll come to the others as well. Is it an opportunity to review how we're getting goods from farm to fork, or from producer to end user?
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 2 – Trafnidiaeth
Thank you very much. I just want to understand, from your perspective, what you think the opportunities and the challenges are of bringing together land-use planning, climate change and environmental policy into the one climate change department.
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1 – Trafnidiaeth
Okay. I absolutely agree with you about the role of regional partnerships and that they've got to work together, but time isn't on our side, and I'm not seeing them actually getting their jackets off and getting on with it at this moment.
16 Medi 2021 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Blaenoriaethau ar gyfer y Pwyllgor Newid Hinsawdd, yr Amgylchedd a Seilwaith: Sesiwn dystiolaeth 1 – Trafnidiaeth
The experience of places like Nottingham and Manchester is that having a tram network, to support the bus network, will bring people onto public transport who will be nervous about using buses because they don't know what time they're going to arrive. The…
