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Publication - Factsheet

Planning: core documents library

Last updated 4 April 2023 - see all updates
Directorate
Legal Services (Solicitor to the Scottish Government)
Part of
Building, planning and design

List of planning core documents for use in planning and environmental appeals.

Please note that the core documents libraries are moving to a new location. The libraries will be re-directed to the new platform.

To submit materials to be considered as part of this collection, email them to DPEA@gov.scot.

To submit a document on this list as part of your document list, you must hyperlink the document name with the URL for the document. Please note it is not sufficient to provide a link to the front page of the core documents library, accompanied by a list of relevant documents. The links must to be to each specific document referred to. Any document lists submitted without complete links for each document will be returned to you. If you are referring to an extract of a larger document, you should specify the relevant section in your document list e.g. Local development plan - Chapter 3 - Section 7.2.

View documents relating to renewables cases in the renewables core documents library.

View publications relating to Scottish Government planning policy and guidance, which includes:

  • National Planning Documents
  • Planning Advice Notes
  • Planning Circulars

Local planning authority documents

Key agencies' documents - coming soon

National Planning Framework

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First published
23 May 2018
Last updated
4 April 2023 - show all updates

  1. Updated links to new libraries for Clackmannanshire, East Lothian, Glasgow, North Ayrshire, Perth & Kinross, Scottish Borders, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, West Dunbartonshire and West Lothian Council Libraries

  2. Updated link to new library for Orkney Islands Council

  3. Updated link to new library for Cairngorms National Park Authority

  4. Added link to new Shetland Islands Council library

  5. Updated link to new library for Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority

  6. Updated Strategic developments plans library link to updated National Planning Framework library

  7. Updated link to new library for North Lanarkshire Council

  8. Updated link to new library for Highland Council

  9. Added link for new Strategic Development Plans library

  10. Updated link to new library for Angus Council

  11. Updated links to new library for East Ayrshire Council

  12. Updated links to new libraries for, Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Argyll and Bute, Western Isles, Dumfries and Galloway, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, Midlothian and Renfrewshire

  13. Updated to remove links to documents no longer needed, and to add links to new City of Edinburgh, Moray, Dundee, Falkirk and Fife libraries

  14. Updated to add link to new Scottish Forestry Library

  15. Updated to add link to new NatureScot Library

  16. Updated to add link to Angus council page

  17. Updating PAN60 link

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