, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 2
Thank you. In fact, I have my next engagement in Tŷ Pawb tomorrow morning, so, it is getting good use. Ben.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 2
Thank you. We've received evidence about the integrated service delivery hub in Carmarthen, working with the health board and university, but what do you believe needs to happen to get other public sector partners to work with local authorities to deliver…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 2
Thank you. Ben Cottam.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 2
Sorry. I'll move on. What about the planning system? Is it flexible enough? What needs to change?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 2
We lost a bit of sound at the end there, but, Ben, do you have any comments? I think you've already replied.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 2
Okay, thank you. And, Chris Jones, do you have any thoughts on this?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 2
Thank you. What, in your views, do local authorities and their key partners need to do to acquire, if they haven't already got them, the right skills, leadership, resources, buy-in and capacity to regenerate the towns in their areas?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 2
Thank you. Ben Cottam.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 2
Thank you very much indeed. Well, as I'm sure you are expecting, we have a number of questions for you, and I therefore ask both Members and witnesses to be as succinct as possible so that we can cover as wide a range of issues as we can, given the number…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 2
Thank you very much indeed. And Ben Cottam.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 2
Croeso. Welcome back to the Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee. I welcome our new witnesses and I'd be grateful if each of them could state their names and roles for the record, starting with Chris Jones.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 1
Well, thank you very much indeed, both, and for staying a quarter of an hour late beyond our combined schedules. So, I'll just conclude by advising both the witnesses that a transcript of today's meeting will be published in draft form and sent to you, so…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 1
Thank you very much indeed. And Phil Prentice.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 1
Thank you. Have you concluded, Alun? Thank you very much. Well, I'll close. I'm conscious we are 10 minutes or more over time. Just to ask: do you have any final points that we haven't addressed that you'd like to make, any particular advice you suggest we…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 1
Diolch. Alun Davies, if you could take up the questions, please.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 1
Thank you very much indeed. Mabon, have you finished your questions for now?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 1
Thank you very much, Natasha. Mabon ap Gwynfor, could you pick up the questions, please?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 1
Okay. Thank you very much indeed. If I bring in Natasha Asghar to take up the questions.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 1
Thank you. And Richard Roe. And apologies for calling you Richard Rae previously.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 1
I think my final question there was: what is the Scottish experience in terms of engaging with property owners of vacant premises in town centres who are reluctant to engage?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 1
Thank you. And in terms of edge-of-town, what would happen not in terms of new development, but when existing development becomes vacant?
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 1
Thank you. What, if any, practice that you've been involved with can you share with us about what could be done or should be done with office accommodation in towns that is now surplus to requirements, including edge-of-town development that becomes vacant?…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 1
Thank you. Richard Rae.
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 1
Thank you, both. What impact, again from your experience, do you believe the Welsh Government's target of 30 per cent of the Welsh workforce working at or near to home might have on towns? Is it something you've considered in your own areas? Is it something…
, Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee
Regenerating Town Centres: Roundtable Session 1
Thank you. And Richard Roe.
