Question reference: S3W-02240
- Date lodged: 18 July 2007
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Current status: Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 6 August 2007
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has measured, or has any plans to measure, the success of Scotland’s five new towns and, if so, what criteria it uses to measure such success.
Answer
The ScottishGovernment has not measured and has no plans to measure the success of Scotland’s five new towns. The UK Government reviewed anumber of aspects of the new towns prior to their wind up in the late 1980s.The key documents in this respect are: The Scottish New Towns: the way ahead(Cm 711) and Industry Department for Scotland: Review of Scottish New Towns (House of CommonsPaper 1987-88).Both documents have been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre(Bib.numbers 43317 and 43318 respectively).