David Leask: Scotland’s green energy revolution threatened by lack of planners – Herald

For years they have been maligned as pen-pushers, bureaucrats far from the front line of public service.

But since 2009 the number of planners has numbers have been cut by a third and their funding by even more, just as their workload exploded.

Local and national politicians have chosen to prioritise in other areas, but in doing so it is feared they may have, at the risk of sounding melodramatic, put at risk the planet itself.

Scotland’s creaking and underfunded planning system is now unable to process the sheer volume of clean energy schemes needed to get the country to net zero, according to those involved in the process.

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