Labour denounces “Almighty Shambles” of SNP’s Development Plans

The Labour Group on North Ayrshire Council has expressed dismay at the lack of strategic economic development planned for North Ayrshire in the SNP’s Local Development Plan (LDP) and National Planning Framework (NPF3), describing the lack of serious development an “almighty shambles”.
Speaking after the LDP was formally adopted, Garnock Valley Councillor John Bell said;
 “The content of both of these plans has been dictated by the SNP and both are inadequate for the needs of North Ayrshire in the 21^st Century.”
 “Planned developments in the Garnock Valley were stopped in their tracks by the SNP’s decision to remove housing allocation from the North Lochshore site, thus blocking an agreement with Scottish Enterprise to develop the site and the wider area.”
“Now, ironically, the Scottish Government has restored planning permission for houses at North Lochshore, with the result that there is the possibility of houses, which are welcome but not an essential need, while the associated economic development, which is desperately needed, has been lost.”
“It’s such an almighty shambles. You couldn't make it up. And it’s the responsibility of the SNP at Holyrood and in Irvine.”
“Following on from the disaster of the Garnock Campus, you honestly wonder what the SNP has against the Garnock Valley. 
North Coast Councillor Alex Gallagher, who has campaigned for strategic status to be retained at the Hunterston Peninsula, said; 
“The removal of Strategic Development status from Hunterston in NPF3 means that there are no planned developments of national importance in all of North Ayrshire. It is predicted that there will be power shortages in the medium term, but the SNP’s blind opposition to nuclear power means that Hunterston, which has been a site of national importance for 60 years,  has been left with no viable future.”
“It is a tragedy that, through the actions and decisions of the SNP locally and in Edinburgh, we have been left with no prospect of substantial economic development in North Ayrshire. I doubt if there has ever been a more inept administration in the history of Cunninghame North or North Ayrshire Councils.”