Minister: no planning discussions to be released

Thursday, 16 March 2017 00:00

Environment, Food and Agriculture Minister Geoffrey Boot says he has no plans to put the deliberations of the Island's planning committee online.

In the House of Keys this week he faced questions from Onchan MHK Julie Edge, who wanted more detail about planning meetings released to the public.

Mr Boot said planning applications, and the decisions by the committee, were already available online and it would be expensive and time-consuming to upload all the arguments and comments made during discussions.

He said it wasn't something he'd been asked for before:

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