Local development planning guidance

Guidance setting out the Scottish Ministers' expectations for implementing the system of local development plans - so that they deliver new-style, place-based, people-centred and delivery-focussed plans. It brings together requirements from the Act and Regulations and advice in relation to National Planning Framework 4.


Footnotes

1. Section 38 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 sets out the meaning of "development plan" for an area of land in England.

2. Triple Access Planning for Uncertain Futures (tapforuncertainty.eu)

3. Directive" means Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances.

4. The Schedule 3 form was previously commonly known as Schedule 4s.

5. Scottish Government: 'Relationship Between the Food Environment and the Planning System'; 2018: https://www.gov.scot/publications/research-project-explore-relationship-between-food-environment-planning-system/documents/

6. Lyons, G. and Davidson, C. (2016). Guidance for transport planning and policymaking in the face of an uncertain future. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 88, 104-116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2016.03.012

Contact

Email: ldpregsandguidance@gov.scot

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