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Publication - Advice and guidance

Play Sufficiency Assessment Regulations 2023: planning guidance

Published
14 December 2023
Directorate
Local Government and Housing Directorate
Part of
Building, planning and design
ISBN
9781835217436

This guidance sets out the explanations and expectations of the provisions in the Play Sufficiency Assessment Regulations 2023. It supports the implementation of the Regulations, bringing together requirements from the Act and advice with regard to the preparation of the Play Sufficiency Assessment.

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Footnotes

1. Town and Country Planning (Play Sufficiency Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023

2. Consultation on Open Space Strategies and Play Sufficiency Assessment Regulations

3. Play Strategy for Scotland: Our Vision, 2013

4. UNCRC General comment No 17, 2013

5. National Planning Framework 4, Scottish Government, 2023

6. Figure 4, LDP Process Overview, Local Development Plan Guidance 2023, Scottish Government

7. Town and Country Planning (Development Planning) (Scotland) Regulations 2023

8. Local Development Planning Guidance

9. Planning (Scotland) Act 2019

10. Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997

11. Town and Country Planning (Play Sufficiency Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023

12. Town and Country Planning (Development Planning) (Scotland) Regulations 2023

13. Greenspace Map, Ordnance Survey

14. Creating Places: A policy statement on architecture and place for Scotland, 2013

15. NPF4 Annex D – Six Qualities of Successful Places

16. National Planning Framework 4

17. Free to Play - A guide to creating accessible and inclusive public play spaces, p. 9, Section 2, Affordance and play value

18. Play Scotland’s Getting it Right for Play Toolkit

19. Make Space for Girls

20. Parkwatch: The Results, May 2023, Make Space for Girls

21. Scotland’s Play Strategy: Playing with quality and equality: a review of inclusive play in Scotland

22. Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2019-22, Scottish Government

23. Scottish Household Survey 2016

24. National Records of Scotland

25. Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

26. Place Standard tool

27. Place Standard tool Children and Young People

28. Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997

29. Law insider.com

30. Adapting the Child-friendly Example of the Convention on the Rights of the Child with and for Children in your Context, Child Rights Connect et al.

31. What is a Place-based Approach?

32. Place Standard tool

33. What is Play, Play Strategy for Scotland: Our Vision, 2013

34. Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997, Section 16D(1)

35. Town and Country Planning (Play Sufficiency Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023

36. Equality Act 2010

Contact

Email: Chief.Planner@gov.scot

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