English: I strongly support the principle of a national development plan and a strategic development plan sitting above the local development plans. I think that we too often look at areas in isolation, and for those who know the area near where I live, you have Parc Trostre and you have Fforestfach retail park, which are both three or four miles apart. They have an effect on each other, but they're dealt with by different planning authorities, and under any changes anybody's put forward in recent times, it would still be under different planning authorities. We've seen the development of a second campus in Swansea, which I think has been a tremendous building, but it actually has a much bigger effect on Swansea than it does on Neath Port Talbot, the council which by serendipity it appears in. It was a bit of land that nobody used, and they followed a stream down to get a boundary. So, I think it is really important that we do end up having a strategic overview. Can I go back to before the spatial plan? The spatial plan only replaced the old county plans. The county plans existed and they designated areas within a county for different usages. It's quite interesting that the county plans disappeared, because the counties' planning departments disappeared, because somebody decided that if there was a planning department in a district and a planning department in the county, there must be some form of overlap there where you can bring efficiency in by merging them. People have always wanted to merge things to bring efficiencies in; one day it will work. And we found out then that the county plans disappeared, so you didn't have a county development plan, which was very useful. I think that we do need overall development plans, because people are always affected by the area next to them, and that's not solved by the boundaries of Wales or the boundaries of council areas, however big you make them, or by the boundaries of the city regions. I've got two real questions. Will you be looking to designate land for forestry? One of the great failures over the last few years is that the amount of afforestation that should have taken place in Wales hasn't. Many people in this room are very keen on increasing the amount of forestry in Wales. Will you be designating areas, like the county plans used to designate areas for minerals and areas for forestry? Will that be in there so that you can have areas designated, so that we can actually have enough land available for afforestation to actually meet our plans? The second question is: we've now got a marine plan separate to the national development plan - why? I've come to the conclusion that the sea at every point meets land. And I'm also of the view that ports, for example, have an effect on marine; at least part of them is on land and part of them is at sea. Surely, one unitary plan covering marine and land would be better than having two plans, because I'm sure somebody in the future will be wanting to join them.
Welsh: Rwy'n cefnogi'n gryf yr egwyddor o gynllun datblygu cenedlaethol a chynllun datblygu strategol uwchben y cynlluniau datblygu lleol. Credaf ein bod yn rhy aml yn edrych ar ardaloedd ar wahân i'w gilydd, ac i'r rheini sy'n adnabod yr ardal gerllaw'r lle rwyf i'n byw, mae gennych chi Barc Trostre, ac mae gennych chi Barc Manwerthu Fforest-fach, sydd dair neu bedair milltir oddi wrth ei gilydd. Maen nhw'n effeithio ar ei gilydd, ond maen nhw'n cael eu trin gan wahanol awdurdodau cynllunio, ac o dan unrhyw newidiadau y mae unrhyw un wedi'u cyflwyno'n ddiweddar, bydden nhw'n aros o dan wahanol awdurdodau cynllunio. Rydym ni wedi gweld datblygiad yr ail gampws yn Abertawe, y credaf ei fod wedi bod yn adeilad rhagorol, ond mae ganddo mewn gwirionedd effaith llawer mwy ar Abertawe nag y sydd ganddo ar Gastell-nedd Port Talbot, y cyngor y mae'n ymddangos ynddo drwy serendipedd. Darn o dir oedd hwn nad oedd neb yn ei ddefnyddio, a dilyn y nant wnaethon nhw i gael ffin. Felly, rwy'n credu ei bod yn bwysig iawn ein bod yn cael trosolwg strategol yn y pen draw. A gaf i ddychwelyd at gyfnod cyn y cynllun gofodol? Nid oedd y cynllun gofodol yn disodli ond yr hen gynlluniau sirol. Roedd y cynlluniau sirol yn bodoli ac roedden nhw'n dynodi ardaloedd o fewn Sir ar gyfer gwahanol ddefnydd. Mae'n ddiddorol iawn bod y cynlluniau sirol wedi diflannu, am fod adrannau cynllunio'r siroedd wedi diflannu, am fod rhywun wedi penderfynu pe byddai adran gynllunio mewn rhanbarth ac adran gynllunio yn y sir, mae'n rhaid fod peth gorgyffwrdd y gellid cymhwyso eu heffeithlonrwydd drwy eu huno nhw. Mae pobl bob amser yn awyddus i uno pethau ar gyfer sicrhau arbedion effeithlonrwydd; un diwrnod fe ddaw hynny i weithio. Ac fe welsom ni wedyn fod y cynlluniau sirol wedi diflannu, ac felly nid oedd cynllun datblygu sirol i'w gael gennych chi, ac roedd hynny'n ddefnyddiol iawn. Credaf fod angen cynlluniau datblygu cyffredinol arnom ni, oherwydd caiff pobl eu dylanwadu bob amser gan yr ardal gyfagos, ac nid yw hynny'n cael ei ddatrys gan ffiniau Cymru na ffiniau ardaloedd y cynghorau, ni waeth pa mor fawr y byddwch chi yn eu gwneud nhw, neu gan ffiniau'r dinas-ranbarthau. Mae gennyf i ddau gwestiwn gwirioneddol. A fyddwch yn edrych ar ddynodi tir ar gyfer coedwigaeth? Un o'r methiannau mawr dros yr ychydig flynyddoedd diwethaf yw nad yw cyfanswm y coedwigo a ddylai fod wedi digwydd yng Nghymru wedi digwydd. Mae llawer yn yr ystafell hon yn awyddus iawn i gynyddu'r swm coedwigaeth yng Nghymru. A fyddwch yn dynodi ardaloedd, fel y gwnaethai'r cynlluniau sirol ddynodi ardaloedd ar gyfer mwynau ac ardaloedd ar gyfer coedwigaeth? A fydd hynny i'w gael fel eich bod yn gallu dynodi ardaloedd, fel y gallwn gael mewn gwirionedd ddigon o dir ar gael ar gyfer coedwigo i fodloni ein cynlluniau mewn gwirionedd? Yr ail gwestiwn yw: erbyn hyn mae gennym gynllun morol ar wahân i'r cynllun datblygu cenedlaethol - pam hynny? Rwyf i wedi dod i'r casgliad bod y môr yn cwrdd â'r tir ymhobman. Ac rwyf hefyd o'r farn fod porthladdoedd, er enghraifft, yn cael effaith ar y môr; mae o leiaf ran ohonynt ar dir a rhan ohonynt ar y môr. Siawns na fuasai un cynllun cyfunol sy'n cwmpasu'r morol a'r tir yn well na chael dau gynllun, oherwydd yr wyf yn siŵr y bydd rhywun yn y dyfodol dymuno eu huno nhw.