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"Planning Aid Scotland launches new website and information sheets

Planning Aid Scotland recently launched its new website.  The aim is to make it easier for members of the public, community groups and local authorities to find the information they need.
A new set of updated and consolidated information sheets on the planning system have been published. You can visit the new website at: www.planningaidscotland.org.uk "

At last a 'little something' on 'NPF3 and SPP'

Extracts from emails received this week - PLEASE NOTE WELL THE SENTENCES I HAVE HIGHLIGHTED


The responses to consultations on Draft SPP have been analysed independently and the
reports of this analysis are available at:

 Full analysis: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00437083.pdf
 Report of main findings: http://scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00437087.pdf

Following initial consideration of the responses, it is clear that the intention to include
separate principal policies on ‘sustainable economic growth’ and ‘sustainable development’
raised a number of issues, with calls for clarification on the relationship between both
policies and on how economic considerations were to be balanced against social and
environmental factors. To address this, the Scottish Government is now consideringreplacing these separate policies with a single principal policy on ‘Sustainability andPlanning’ and introducing a presumption in favour of sustainable development into the SPP.

A further public consultation on this change began on October 28, 2013 with copies of the
consultation paper plus associated documents available on the Scottish Government website
at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2013/10/3406.

Responses are requested by December 16, 2013. Should you require further information onthis consultation, please e-mail the SPP Review Team at SPPReview@scotland.gsi.gov.uk.


The public consultation on the National Planning Framework 3: Main Issues Report closed
on 30 July 2013. The responses have been analysed independently and the reports of this
analysis is now available on the Scottish Government’s website at:

 Full analysis: http://scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00437094.pdf
 Report of main findings: http://scotland.gov.uk/resource/0043/00437093.pdf

Individual responses to the consultations are also available to view by following the links at:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/planning/NPF3-SPP-Review.

'...the Proposed Planwill be laid before Parliament in January 2014, and as soon as possible after recess ends on5 January. As you will be aware, the NPF3 Proposed Plan is subject to 60 dayParliamentary scrutiny. The Minister has been keen to take on board comments aroundtiming expressed by the Committee and also in responses to the public consultation.

We will contact those who responded to the NPF3 public consultation again once the Proposed Plan has been laid before Parliament.

Extended timescale for the finalisation of Scottish Planning Policy

The Minister has also recently announced that the timetable for the completion of work on
the review of the SPP is to be aligned with the publication of NPF3. The expected

publication date of the SPP is now June 2014.

Inner Moray Firth Local Development Plan (Proposed Plan)

Extract from a THC press release HERE

'...A 6 week public consultation on the Proposed Plan will run from 1st November – 13th December 2013.  The Council has designed the Plan as an interactive online document that can be accessed through the Council’s website www.highland.gov.uk/imfldp where comments on the Plan should also be made.'


More on this at a later date...