Hannah Mary Goodlad: “I don’t know about you but I’m pretty fed up of this opportunistic kind of politics.”

I think we've outgrown our ferry service. I think we have outgrown the population that that can sustain, and also the industry that that can incubate.

Data centres is a rapidly emerging sector, and planning has an important role to play in considering applications, harnessing economic opportunities, and finding solutions which align with our climate goals.

This waste heat could potentially give us an opportunity to tap into this, if we strategically think about where these data centres are located, to be creating district heating schemes.

We must balance the economic and employment interests in developing data centres with national energy, climate and community wealth building ambitions, which are vital to our future prosperity, as well as the potential impact on local…