The MCofS is approached by Government on most consultation exercises. Responses are made by volunteers on the A&C Committee with relevant expertise or by the A&C Officer. Our comments reflect the Policies and ethos of the MCofS. During the course of the last two years the MCofS has responded to the following consultations, planning applications, etc. that related to Access and Conservation:

1. Review of Planning Procedures
2. Code of Practice for Outdoor Land Based Fund Raising Events
3. National Parks for Scotland
4. Torridon Woodland Grant Scheme Environmental Statement
5. National Scenic Areas
6. UNESCO World Heritage Sites
7. Land Reform
8. People and Nature. SSSI Designations
9. Planning Procedures Relating to Telecommunications Equipment
10. Moray Local Plan
11. Forests for Scotland
12. Forest Enterprise Stakeholders
13. Planning Enforcement Circular
14. Council Directive on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and Wild Flora and Fauna (The Habitats Directive).
15. Review of National Scenic Area Designation.
16. Natura 2000 Possible SAC's.
17. Developing Proposals for National Parks in Scotland.
18. Land Reform Policy Group. Identifying the Problems.
19. Draft NPPG - Natural Heritage.
20. Research on the General Permitted Development Order and Related Mechanisms.
21. Town and Country Planning Acts: Permitted Development.
22. Planning Procedures in Scotland Relating to Telecommunications Equipment.
23. Review of Planning Procedures Relating to Telecommunications Equipment.
24. Towards a Development Strategy for Rural Scotland.
25. Moray Development Plan.
26. Nevis Mountain Management Issues
27. Wild Deer in Scotland – Long Term Vision
28. Draft Scottish Forestry Strategy
29. Review of Forest Enterprise
30. National Planning Policy Guideline 6 – Renewable Energy
31. Cairngorm Chairlift Company – Visitor Management Plan
32. Revision of Ben Nevis Candidate Special Area of Conservation – cSAC
33. National Planning Policy Guideline 1 - The Planning System
34. Extension of the range of Candidate Special Areas of Conservation - cSACs
35. Ben Ledi footpath proposals
36. Ben Lawers.
37. Goatfell Management Plan.
38. Access Legislation. Access Forum.
39. Review of Upland Footpath Management in Scotland. SNH.
40. Ross & Cromarty Footpath Trust. Consultative Paper. Beyond the Year 2000.
41. Inventory and Database of Scottish Mountain Footpaths.
42. Code of Practice for Outdoor Land Based Fund Raising Events.
43. St. Kilda - NTS Review of Management Plan
44. Draft Land Reform Bill
45. Land Reform Bill (As Introduced) - and secondary submission
46. Nevis Strategy
47. Law of the Foreshore and Seabed in Scotland
48. Natural Heritage Zones
49. Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park
50. Cairngorms National Park
51. Strathyre Holiday Cabin Proposals
52. Permitted Development Rights
53. Stirling Biodiversity Action Plan
54. Wester Ross National Scenic Area Draft Management Strategy
55. The Skye Cuillin potential Special Protection Area
56. Cairngorms National Park Park draft Designation Order
57. Scotland's Renewable Energy Potential
58. Heli-tourism Proposal on Arran
59. A82 Bridges Repair in Glencoe
60. Cairn Gorm Access Road
61. Angus Countryside Access Strategy
62. Telecoms development planning
63. Draft Nature Conservation (Scotland) Bill
64. Proposed Shieldaig Hydro Scheme
65. Scottish Outdoor Access Code
66. Environmental Impact Assessment (Forestry) (Scotland) on Rum
67. Modernising Public Local Inquiries Public Consultation
68. Nature Conservation (Scotland) Bill - Written Evidence
69. National Scenic Areas - Pilot Management Strategies Review
70. Review of Land Managed by Forestry Commission Scotland
71. Scotland's Future Landscapes (SNH)
72. Stac Polly Communications Mast
73. Wester Ross Local Plan
74. Beauly to Denny Electricity Transmission Line (2 responses)
75. Part 1 Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 - Draft Guidance for Local and National Park Authorities
76. Scottish Outdoor Access Code - written evidence to Committee
77. Rights of Appeal in Planning
78. Cairngorms NPA - Hill Tracks Policy
79. NTS - Future Management of Glencoe
80. Western Isles Transmission Options
81. Isle of Lewis Proposed Windfarm
82. Strategic review of SNH.
83. SNH guidance on land management signage.
84. RSE Energy Inquiry
85. Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park Plan
86. Modernising the Planning System
87. Glensanda Quarry Extension
88. Beauly to Denny Electricity Transmission Line (Planning Application)
89. Lochluichart Windfarm Proposal
90. draft Guidance for Core Paths Plan Local Inquiries
91. Energy Efficiency And Micro-generation (Scotland) Bill
92. Scottish Exec - National Scenic Areas
93. Draft Cairngorms National Park Plan
94. Muaitheabhal Wind Farm
95. Lochluichart Wind Farm
96. Snaring
97. Western Isles Transmission Options
98. Woodland Regeneration and Paths at Loch Katrine
99. East Lothian Draft Core Paths Plan
100. Scottish Marine Renewables SEA
101. Environmental Report on VisitScotland Draft Corporate Plan 2007-2010
102. Cowal & Trossachs Forest District Strategic Plan
103. Skye & Lochalsh Draft Core Paths Plan
104. Invervar Hydro Scheme
105. Cairngorms Draft Core Paths Plan
106. Angus Countryside Access Strategy
107. Cairngorms National Park- Deposit Local Plan
108. Loch Lomond & Trossachs Core Paths Plan
109. Scottish Rural Development Programme - Highland Regional Priorities
110. Scottish Rural Development Programme - Grampian Regional Priorities
111. Scottish Rural Development Programme - Tayside Regional Priorities
112. Scottish Rural Development Programme - Argyll Priorities
113. Scottish Rural Development Programme - Forth Valley Priorities
114. Loch Katrine Environmental Statement Proposals
115. Sloy Pumping Station Development

Copies of these responses are available for reference from the MCofS office on request and at a fee covering photocopying and postage.

Comments made through Scottish Environment LINK (LINK):
National Park campaign
Land Reform Group
Upland Working Group
Forestry Policy
Lingerabay Public Inquiry
Preparation of book by Andy Wightman for the European Conference on Sustainable Mountain Development at Coylumbridge in 1996.