In 1998 the Scottish Executive cut the allocation for the maintenance of the soft landscape round motorways and trunk roads by over 50%. They also insisted that in future the maintenance should be undertaken in accordance with their document ‘Cost Effective Landscapes, Learning from Nature’. They instructed their largest contractor (Clyde Local Authority Consortium) to prepare a Strategic Landscape Action Plan in a format that could be handed out to site operators. David Wilson Associates were commissioned to prepare that documentation, to monitor the works and to advise on any difficulties that occurred. They retained that role until CLAC lost the contract in 2002.