English: Diolch, John. I know, John, you're very enthusiastic, and I'm very grateful for your chairing of the Living Levels partnership, which has certainly helped us move it on. We absolutely do need to improve the strategic planning guidance for the areas I mentioned previously. I can't comment on a number of outstanding planning applications for obvious reasons, so I'm not going anywhere near that. But just in general terms, as I said, this is going to be the first pilot of 'Future Wales' policy 9, the approach for mainstreaming biodiversity and ecosystem resilience into planning policies, and to ensure that as part of that pilot of policy 9, we get the right social, economic, cultural and environmental developments in the right place to enhance that biodiversity and ecosystem resilience. That's going to take the form of a masterplan for the area, which we've got, as you know, consultants working on. We've sought views - as I know you know, John, from the Gwent Living Levels working group - on the governance approach needed to represent the political and technical interests around building this policy up and the guidance that needs to go with it on biodiversity and ecosystem resilience. I'm absolutely determined to make this a pilot area for this model of governance and planning policy, because this is a vital area - alongside many others in Wales, of course - of biodiversity and resilience. It's the green lungs of a big set of urban conurbations around its edges, as you know, John, and it's a source of rich carbon depositing and biodiversity. It's a really good example of carbon capture in a non-tree form as well, because, as I keep saying to people, the tree's just the iconic symbol for a whole range of different landscape types across Wales that support a range of biodiversity. I'm very determined to get that pilot up and running ASAP. We'll get the strategic planning guidance out and I remain very grateful indeed for your part in chairing the group.
Welsh: Diolch, John. Rwy'n gwybod, John, eich bod chi'n frwdfrydig iawn, ac rwy'n ddiolchgar iawn i chi am gadeirio'r bartneriaeth Lefelau Byw, sydd yn sicr wedi ein helpu ni i'w symud ymlaen. Mae gwir angen i ni wella'r canllawiau cynllunio strategol ar gyfer y meysydd y gwnes i eu crybwyll o'r blaen. Ni allaf i wneud sylw ar nifer o geisiadau cynllunio sy'n weddill am resymau amlwg, felly nid wyf i'n mynd yn agos at hynny. Ond yn gyffredinol, fel y dywedais i, dyma fydd y cynllun treialu cyntaf o bolisi 9 'Cymru'r Dyfodol', y dull o brif ffrydio bioamrywiaeth a chydnerthedd ecosystemau mewn polisïau cynllunio, a sicrhau ein bod ni, fel rhan o'r cynllun treialu hwnnw o bolisi 9, yn cael y datblygiadau cymdeithasol, economaidd, diwylliannol ac amgylcheddol cywir yn y lle cywir i wella'r fioamrywiaeth a chydnerthedd yr ecosystemau hynny. Mae hynny'n mynd i fod ar ffurf uwchgynllun ar gyfer yr ardal, ac mae gennym ni, fel y gwyddoch chi, ymgynghorwyr sy'n gweithio arno. Rydym ni wedi ceisio barn - fel y gwyddoch, John, o weithgor Lefelau Byw Gwent - ar y dull llywodraethu sydd ei angen i gynrychioli'r buddiannau gwleidyddol a thechnegol sy'n gysylltiedig â datblygu'r polisi hwn a'r canllawiau cysylltiedig y mae eu hangen ar fioamrywiaeth a chydnerthedd ecosystemau. Rwy'n gwbl benderfynol o wneud hon yn ardal dreialu ar gyfer y model hwn o bolisi llywodraethu a chynllunio, oherwydd mae hon yn ardal hollbwysig - ochr yn ochr â llawer o rai eraill yng Nghymru, wrth gwrs - o fioamrywiaeth a chydnerthedd. Mae'n ysgyfaint gwyrdd cyfres fawr o gytrefi trefol o amgylch ei ymylon, fel y gwyddoch chi, John, ac mae'n ffynhonnell gyfoethog o ddyddodi carbon a bioamrywiaeth. Mae'n enghraifft dda iawn o ddal carbon ar ffurf nad yw'n goeden hefyd, oherwydd, fel yr wyf i'n dal i ddweud wrth bobl, nid yw'r goeden ond yn symbol eiconig ar gyfer amrywiaeth eang o wahanol fathau o dirweddau ledled Cymru sy'n cynnal amrywiaeth o fioamrywiaeth. Rwy'n benderfynol iawn o roi'r cynllun treialu hwnnw ar waith. Byddwn ni'n cyhoeddi'r canllawiau cynllunio strategol ac yr wyf i dal yn ddiolchgar iawn am eich rhan chi yn cadeirio'r grŵp.