Open Space Strategies and Play Sufficiency Assessments Regulations: consultation

This consultation paper discusses proposed provisions and seeks views on both sets of draft regulations on Open Space Strategies and Play Sufficiency Assessments.


Footnotes

1. The duty to prepare a play sufficiency assessment applies to all planning authorities. However national park authorities do not have to prepare an Open Space Strategy (the Act notes at 3G(6) that for the purpose of the open space strategy section of the Act, a national park authority is not a planning authority).

2. The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019

3. The Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997

4. United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child

5. Planning Advice Note 65 (Planning and Open Space)

6. Greenspace Map, Ordnance Survey

7. Green Infrastructure: Design & Placemaking

8. National Planning Framework | Transforming Planning

9. Photo sources / credits: Images 1,3,4 Scottish Government Programme for Government 20-21, Images 2,5,6 Kristen Anderson (SG Planning & Architecture Division)

10. The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2013 (legislation.gov.uk)

11. For the purposes of the Ordnance Survey data - a settlement is defined to be a group of high density postcodes whose combined population rounds to 500 people or more.

12. [mean persons aged 25 or under]

13. [means a person who is a disabled person for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010]

14. Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015: Allotments.

15. National Planning Framework | Transforming Planning

16. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation)(Scotland) Bill

17. Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 (legislation.gov.uk)

18. Scotland's Getting it Right for Play Toolkit

19. Scottish Household Survey 2016

20. () 1997 c.8. Section 3G was inserted by section 3 of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13) and was commenced on 8 November 2019 by regulation 2 and schedule 1 of S.S.I. 2019/314 for the purpose of making regulations.

21. () Section 275(7BA) was inserted by paragraph 9(2) of schedule 2 of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019.

22. () 1973 c.65.

23. () The boundary map is available at www.centralscotlandgreennetwork.org.resources/data

24. () 2005 asp 12.

25. () 2015 asp 6.

26. () c. 8. Section 16D was inserted by section 7 of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 13) and was commenced on 8 November 2019 by regulation 2 and schedule 1 of S.S.I. 2019/314 for the purpose of making regulations.

27. () 2015 asp 6.

28. () c. 65.

Contact

Email: OSSPSAconsultation@gov.scot

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