•All planning proposals should be centred on the well-being and best interest of the islands residents and local tourism.
The Council had been suggesting ideas and plans for a good few years without making their ideas public, so once the ideas had been refined, with backers and funding parties all confirmed and signed up, including all the contractors and private businesses, everything was ready to go as soon as the plan was to be sanctioned.
One of the initial sticking points was that for the construction of the new highway to be finished, it meant that a large area of the crater wall would need to be destroyed and removed, allowing the highway agency access to finish the road inside the plateau area. Exploding a rock face above a heavily populated area of the town had its own problems,
