Current Petitions

We should continue the petition, and we should consider it again once SNH’s mapping work has been concluded. I recently met Helen McDade, and I am given to understand that she was not originally able to make a presentation because the petition was part of a large batch towards the end of the previous session of Parliament. Because of that, I wonder whether we might invite the petitioner to speak to us and give us her views at a meeting once SNH has completed its work and we have its evidence.

I, too, have met the lady concerned. I am interested in the whole topic, because the protection of wild land is obviously an important thing in any country. We do not have much legislation in that regard in Scotland, so the petition should definitely be continued. We should seek more information from the John Muir Trust.