Fife Council planning authority: core documents

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Local development plans

• FIFEplan (2017)
• adopted St Andrews and East Fife Local Plan
• adopted Mid Fife Local Plan
• adopted Dunfermline and West Fife Local Plan

Planning customer guidelines

• advertisements for businesses
• businesses selling food and drink
• Change of Use and Use Classes
• coal mining areas and planning
• daylight and sunlight
• dormer extensions
• garden ground
• High Hedges guidance
• Houses in Multiple Occupancy
• minimum distances between window openings
• painting exterior of Listed Buildings or unlisted buildings in a Conservation Area
• shop front design guidelines
• trees and development
• windows in Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas

Supplementary guidance

• Houses in Multiple Occupancy
• wind energy (including area of search map)
• affordable housing (2014)
• Low Carbon Fife (2019)
• Low Carbon Fife (2019) - Appendices

Conservation area appraisals and management plans

• Abbotshall and Central Kirkcaldy
• Aberdour
• Anstruther
• Balmerino
• Burntisland
• Cadham
• Cellardyke
• Charlestown
• Coaltown of Wemyss
• Colinsburgh
• Crail
• Cupar
• Dunfermline
• Dysart
• Elie & Earlsferry
• Hepburn Gardens, St Andrews
• Inverkeithing
• Kennoway
• Kilconquhar
• Kilrenny
• Kincardine
• Kinghorn
• Kingsbarns
• Kirkcaldy Harbour & Port Brae
• Kirkcaldy
• Leslie
• Leuchars
• Limekilns
• Links Road, Leven
• Lower Largo
• Markinch
• Newport-on-Tay
• North Queensferry
• Pattiesmuir
• Pittenweem
• St Andrews
• St Monans
• Upper Largo
• West Wemyss

Other planning related documents and guidance

• Enforcement Charter (2013)
• Supplementary Transport Designing Streets (2009)
• Planning Obligations Framework Guidance (2015)
• Transportation Development Guidelines (2006)
• Review Of Onshore Wind Energy in Fife (May 2015)
• Urban Design Guide - Creating a Better Fife (2005)
• St Andrews Design Guidelines (2008)
• Fife Landscape Character Assessment (1999)
• Fife Greenspace Audit 2010
• Historic Scotland Policy Statement (2019)
• Housing Land Audit (2019)
• Making Fife's Places Supplementary Guidance (2018)