21st November 2010, 01:10 PM
Thinking about your example, Kevin, I am coming at it from the other direction; the employment by the council of an outreach officer to arrange events represents a cost saving to the developer/unit. The norm is that the developer must fund the outreach as part of discharging the condition. Therefore they have to allow for time and money to be spent on putting on an exhibition at a local library, giving talks to the locals, or however the outreach is to be done. This represents the normal cost. If the council has an outreach officer who helps to sort such things out, that theoretically cuts down on the time and money that the developer needs to spend and so savings are made.
'Reality,' sa molesworth 2, 'is so unspeakably sordid it make me shudder.'