Gold plate

Some communities gold-plate their subdivision ordinances because they know that developers, rather than the local voters, are paying.

To help reduce the “sticker shock,” stick to what we really need and do not gold plate the requirements.

Exceed expectations. This sounds contradictory to the earlier advice not to accept extra or unnecessary tasks and not to gold plate requirements, but it is not.

I do not think that we gold plate European regulations although I think others, insurers and other industry bodies, may gold plate on our behalf.

Devolved administrations in individual jurisdictions can always choose to gold plate requirements by doing more than a treaty of directive requires, subject to the constitutional provisions under which they were created.

In order to find our whether the UK tends to gold plate (and double bank) more than other EU countries – as was suggested by some commentators – the Davidson Review adopted a multi-stage approach.

For example the packaging directive was gold plated in transposition.