Open Space Strategies and Play Sufficiency Assessments Regulations: impact assessments

Impact assessment for the consultation paper on Open Space Strategies and Play Sufficiency Assessments, which discusses proposed provisions and seeks views on both sets of draft regulations.


Footnotes

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2. EQIA video: 'Mountains for All'

3. The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 inserted new sections, 3G Open space strategy, and 16C Play sufficiency assessment into the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 ("the Act").

4. 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).

5. The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019

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123. Scottish Government Equality Evidence Finder

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125. At the start of 2009, a series of questions on the opportunities for children to play in their neighbourhood were added to the Scottish Household Survey. From 2012, the set of questions were only asked if there was a child aged 6 to 12 years in the household. Data from this set of questions were collected every two years and were last presented in the Scottish household survey 2016: Annual report. Scottish Government (2017). Scottish Household Survey 2016: Annual Report.

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159. The Scottish Household Survey 2020

160. The 2019 Act inserted new sections, 3G Open space strategy, and 16C Play sufficiency assessment into the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 ("the Act").

161. 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).

162. The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019

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