tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91150580413832579862024-03-13T03:24:31.682+00:00Action for Planning TransparencyThe latest news from Action for Planning Transparency APTAPTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.comBlogger1124125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-18665274232712323652014-02-24T20:34:00.000+00:002014-02-24T20:34:14.336+00:00NPF3 - 'What the Committee heard'<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Further to the previous post on NPF3 progress, </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have <b>not</b> read through all of the submissions to the latest stage of scrutiny (<b>see below</b> <b>for</b> the <b>list</b> of submissions on NPF3 to the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Local Government and Regeneration Committee - and others - </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and how I located this list) but it appears that some groups are not too happy with quite a few things in and about the Proposed NPF3 (they are not happy with the 60 day parliamentary scrutiny period particularly) and are telling the Parliamentary Committee just that.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">'</span><a href="http://www.planningdemocracy.org.uk/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Planning Democracy</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">' remains very concerned as does 'The <a href="https://www.jmt.org/">John Muir Trust</a>' and '<a href="https://www.rspb.org.uk/scotland/">RSPB Scotland</a>'. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">'</span><a href="http://www.planningaidscotland.org.uk/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Planning Aid Scotland</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">' expresses some concerns too. All these submissions are well worth a read.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Regular readers will recognise the sentiments expressed here, taken from the list response '10' from '<a href="http://www.nestrans.org.uk/home.html">Nestrans</a>':</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>"...However, very little consideration is given in the Proposed Framework to the implications of </i></span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the projected growth, particularly as it applies to infrastructure requirements to facilitate that </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">growth. "</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Responses '4' and '6' on the list (Holder Planning and Brodies LLP) put forward the idea of merging National Planning Frameworks and Scottish Planning Policy, NPF and SPP, into one document.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I will need to read the RTPI response more thoroughly as well as that from the 'Heads of Planning Scotland' which was submitted by their chairperson, Malcolm Macleod.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">[I clicked on the link </span><a href="http://register.scotland.gov.uk/s/1f0eed" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Scottish Parliament's 'Committees' page</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> then visited the 'Local Government and Regeneration Committee's' </span><a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/CurrentCommittees/29852.aspx" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">web page</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From that page I clicked on the link to NPF3 and SPP under 'Current Business' and then clicked on 'Written Submissions Received' - which is under the 'Evidence' section.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The list below can be found at </span><a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/CurrentCommittees/72425.aspx" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the 'evidence' link</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>...Over the past month four Parliamentary committees have been taking written
and oral evidence as part of their scrutiny of Proposed NPF3. This has included
evidence sessions with Derek Mackay MSP, Minister for Local Government and
Planning, Keith Brown MSP, Minister for Transport and Veterans and Paul
Wheelhouse MSP, Minister for Environment and Climate Change.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The written and oral evidence can be found on the four committees on the <a href="http://register.scotland.gov.uk/s/1f0eed">Scottish Parliament's Committees
page</a>.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>For those with a hard copy Proposed NPF3 please note an <a href="http://register.scotland.gov.uk/s/1f0eee">erratum</a> was published on
February 5, 2014. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, my word, is it really more than 3 months since I have posted anything? I must admit signing in today I had almost forgotten what to do!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It seems a little too late for 'Happy New Year', but, there, I have said it anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There has been a lot going on planning wise and I have been quite busy with various responses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is a quick 'catch-up' and a few links to some items that readers might find interesting.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For the latest information on the 'Inner Moray Firth Local Development Plan' click </span><a href="http://www.highland.gov.uk/yourenvironment/planning/developmentplans/imfldp.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">here</a></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Latest on the Development Plan Scheme click on the Planning, Environment and Development Committee link just below</span></li>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1<i>3. Development Plan Scheme Update<br />Fios as Ùr mu Sgeama Plana Leasachaidh</i></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>There is circulated Report No. <a href="http://www.highland.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/64921AE4-A3AE-44AB-AE96-D38A03446F92/0/Item13Ped1514.pdf" style="color: #474a75;">Ped-15-14 <span class="docSize">(464kb pdf)</span></a> dated 24 January 2014 by the Director of Planning and Development outlining the content of the Development Plan Scheme (DPS), attached as Appendix 1 to the report, which provides an up to date position on the Council’s timescales for preparing its Development Plan documents. This includes the steps toward adoption of the Inner Moray Firth Local Development Plan and the initial stages of the Caithness and Sutherland Local Development Plan (CaSPlan). This year the DPS has been updated to illustrate how the Council proposes to incorporate the Scottish Government’s focus on an outcome driven planning system in its emerging Development Plans.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The Committee is asked to agree the content of the 2014 Development Plan Scheme in order that the document be submitted to the Plain English Campaign and subsequently submitted to the Scottish Ministers.</i></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Latest info re 'The Third National Planning Framework' at link <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/planning/NPF3-SPP-Review/NPF3">here</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Following consideration of the responses to the public consultation on the Main Issues Report (MIR) for NPF3, a <a class="id--292271" href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2014/01/3724" style="color: #335183; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Proposed NPF3</a> was laid in the Scottish Parliament on January 14, 2014.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The Proposed NPF3 is subject to Parliamentary scrutiny for a 60 day period until March 24, 2014. Further details of how the Parliament will scrutinise the Proposed NPF3 and you can get involved can be found on the <a href="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/" style="color: #335183; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Parliament’s website</a>.</i></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From 'Martin Goodall's Planning Law blog, '</span><a href="http://planninglawblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/judicial-review-different-solution.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Judicial Review - a different solution?</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">'</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'<a href="http://www.planningresource.co.uk/article/1230880/york-affordable-homes-requirement-trumped-housing-need">York Affordable Homes Requirement is Trumped by Housing Need</a>'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><i>It was submitted that the inspector placed too much emphasis on the developer’s desire to make a profit and, whilst he had observed that it was "not the role of the planning system to insure the landowner against loss", he had effectively done just that.</i></span><br />
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APTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-70242512186562876872013-11-01T14:51:00.000+00:002013-11-01T14:51:01.436+00:00'Planning Aid Scotland - new website and information sheets"<h1 style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 10px;">
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Aid Scotland launches new website and information sheets</span></h1>
<span style="font-size: large;">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.<br />A new set of updated and consolidated
information sheets on the planning system have been published. You can visit the
new website at: <a href="http://register.scotland.gov.uk/s/1ef55e">www.planningaidscotland.org.uk</a> "</span>APTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-76541346443748498152013-10-30T15:06:00.005+00:002013-10-30T15:06:54.543+00:00At last a 'little something' on 'NPF3 and SPP'<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Extracts from emails received this week - PLEASE NOTE WELL THE SENTENCES I HAVE HIGHLIGHTED</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The responses to consultations on Draft SPP have been analysed independently and the</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Full analysis: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00437083.pdf</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Report of main findings: http://scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00437087.pdf</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Following initial consideration of the responses, it is clear that the intention to include</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">separate principal policies on ‘sustainable economic growth’ and ‘sustainable development’</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">raised a number of issues, with calls for clarification on the relationship between both</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">policies and on how economic considerations were to be balanced against social and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">environmental factors. <b>To address this, the Scottish Government is now considering</b></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">replacing these separate policies with a single principal policy on ‘Sustainability and</b><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Planning’ and <u>introducing a presumption in favour of sustainable development </u>into the SPP.</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A further public consultation on this change began on October 28, 2013 with copies of the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">consultation paper plus associated documents available on the Scottish Government website</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2013/10/3406.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Responses </b>are requested <b>by December 16, 2013</b>. Should you require further information on</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">this consultation, please e-mail the </span>SPP<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Review Team at </span>SPPReview<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">@</span>scotland<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span>gsi<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.gov.</span>uk<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The public consultation on the National Planning Framework 3: Main Issues Report closed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">on 30 July 2013. The responses have been analysed independently and the reports of this</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">analysis is now available on the Scottish Government’s website at:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Full analysis: http://scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00437094.pdf</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Report of main findings: http://scotland.gov.uk/resource/0043/00437093.pdf</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Individual responses to the consultations are also available to view by following the links at:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Built-Environment/planning/NPF3-SPP-Review.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...the Proposed Plan</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">will be laid before Parliament in January 2014, and as soon as possible after recess ends on</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5 January. As you will be aware, the NPF3 Proposed Plan is subject to 60 day</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Parliamentary scrutiny. The Minister has been keen to take on board comments around</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">timing expressed by the Committee and also in responses to the public consultation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>We will contact those who responded to the NPF3 public consultation again once the </b></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Proposed Plan has been laid before Parliament.</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Extended timescale for the finalisation of Scottish Planning Policy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Minister has also recently announced that the timetable for the completion of work on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the review of the SPP is to be aligned with the publication of NPF3. The expected</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>APTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-76408234156177552582013-10-30T14:59:00.004+00:002013-10-30T14:59:50.793+00:00Inner Moray Firth Local Development Plan (Proposed Plan)<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Extract from a THC press release <a href="http://www.highland.gov.uk/yourcouncil/news/newsreleases/2013/October/2013-10-30-04.htm">HERE</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #474a75; font-family: tahoma, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">'...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 </span><a href="http://www.highland.gov.uk/imfldp.htm" style="background-color: white; color: #474a75; font-family: tahoma, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>www.highland.gov.uk/imfldp</strong></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #474a75; font-family: tahoma, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"> where comments on the Plan should also be made.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">More on this at a later date...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>APTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-86995427844796693562013-10-18T14:56:00.000+01:002013-10-18T14:56:16.232+01:00Proposed amendments to Highland Council Service structure <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Extract from HC Press Release <a href="http://www.highland.gov.uk/yourcouncil/news/newsreleases/2013/October/2013-10-17-05.htm">HERE</a></span><br />
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #474a75; font-family: tahoma, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #474a75; font-family: tahoma, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">..</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #474a75; font-family: tahoma, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Highland Councillors will be asked next week to amend the Council’s Service structure to align teams into five Services rather than the current seven, delivering year-on-year savings of £350,000 from 2014/15.</span></i><br />
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<i>• Children, Education and Adult Services<br />• Finance<br />• Corporate Development<br />• Capital and Development<br />• Community Services</i></div>
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<i> ...<span style="background-color: white; color: #474a75; font-family: tahoma, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">“The need to focus on improving the economy and creating jobs underpins the proposal to create a new Capital and Development Directorate in which all of the resources of the Council delivering capital developments are aligned with our teams which are supporting economic improvement.</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well this is<b> Item 18 </b>on the <a href="http://www.highland.gov.uk/yourcouncil/committees/thehighlandcouncil/2013-10-24-hc-ag.htm">Agenda</a> for next Thursday's Full Council meeting</span></span><br />
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<strong>18. Proposed Amendments to Service Structure<br />Atharrachaidhean air am Moladh do Structar nan Seirbheisean</strong></div>
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There is circulated Report No. <a href="http://www.highland.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/F19651F0-AAE9-4E0C-BA1A-72CFBA1EC4F1/0/Item18HC5113.pdf" style="color: #474a75;">HC-51-13 <span class="docSize">(990kb pdf)</span></a> dated 14 October 2013 by the Chief Executive which details proposals to amend the Council’s Service structure to align teams into 5 Services rather than the current 7. The paper also describes the reasons for the changes and notes that a saving of £350k per annum will be delivered.</div>
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The Council is invited to agree:-</div>
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i. the amendments to the Service structure as contained in Paragraphs 2.3 to<br /> 2.8 and also summarised in Appendix 2 and that these be implemented in 2<br /> phases by 30 September 2014;<br />ii. that consultation with Trade Unions and Senior Managers should take place<br /> from 25 October 2013 and that detailed proposals relating to the deployment<br /> and responsibilities of posts in Service Management Teams be brought to the<br /> Council on 19 December 2013; and<br />iii. that the remits of Strategic Committees be reviewed to achieve better<br /> alignment with the revised Service structure and that a report and<br /> recommendations be brought to the Council on 19 December 2013.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The <a href="http://www.highland.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/F19651F0-AAE9-4E0C-BA1A-72CFBA1EC4F1/0/Item18HC5113.pdf">Committee Report </a> indicates in Appendix 2 (on the last page) that 'Planning' will sit in the new Directorate of 'Capital and Development'</span></div>
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APTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-44908327777654643332013-10-18T13:50:00.000+01:002013-10-18T13:51:05.824+01:00Update - 'Biodiversity Offsetting'<br />
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<a href="http://www.planningresource.co.uk/article/1216532/--developer-offsets-housings-impact-nature?DCMP=EMC-CONPlanningResourceDaily&bulletin=planning-daily"><span style="font-size: large;">How We Did It - Developer 'offsets' housing's impact on nature</span></a></h1>
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APTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-17225542500951695162013-09-26T13:33:00.001+01:002013-09-26T19:25:03.961+01:00'Biodiversity offsetting'<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0c0c; font-family: nta, GDS-Regular, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0c0c; font-family: nta, GDS-Regular, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">"</span><a href="https://www.gov.uk/biodiversity-offsetting" style="font-family: nta, GDS-Regular, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">Biodiversity offsets </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0c0c; font-family: nta, GDS-Regular, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">are conservation activities that are designed to give biodiversity benefits to compensate for losses - ensuring that when a development damages nature (and this damage cannot be avoided) new, bigger or better nature sites will be created. They are different from other types of ecological compensation as they need to show measurable outcomes that are sustained over time."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.cla.org.uk/News_and_Press/News_Archive/Biodiversity/Environment/1014720.htm/">The Country Land and Business Association </a>- whose President states, </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.796875px;">"We are very glad Mr Paterson has today published this paper and we agree with his view that there is no reason why wildlife and development cannot flourish side by side" and </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.796875px;">"There are currently huge limitations on public funding for biodiversity and so the creation of environmental markets to fund this work is an excellent idea. It would be good news for the environment and for the rural economy."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And some believe that the offsetting proposals would be, '..<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/05/biodiversity-offsetting-proposals-licence-to-trash">.</a></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.154;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/05/biodiversity-offsetting-proposals-licence-to-trash">a licence to trash nature</a>'</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">...Tom Tew, chief executive of the Environment Bank, the company acting as the independent broker between planners and developers, told the paper: “I think FoE and others completely misunderstand how biodiversity offsetting works. It is not a licence to trash, it is the complete opposite. When you put a value on biodiversity, you are putting a financial incentive for developers not to trash it.” Link </span><a href="http://www.construction-manager.co.uk/news/biodiversity-offsetting-could-speed-development/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">HERE</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We live in interesting times, but one thing is certain, for any initiative to work everyone involved must be aware of all the implications and possibilities; there must be no difference in interpretation by any side. There should be no scope for what ICCS refers to as, 'inappropriate application of the approach'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At last my annual dose of escapism; the glitter and froth of 'Strictly Coming Dancing' is back next week!</span></div>
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APTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-54682127878861650622013-09-20T20:12:00.000+01:002013-09-20T20:12:06.486+01:00Supporting older people and disabled people at home - Case Studies<br />
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APTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-80185788540506905402013-09-20T20:03:00.001+01:002013-09-20T20:03:24.181+01:00A Guide for Mobile Home Owners in Scotland – Your Rights and Responsibilities - Scottish Government<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
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APTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-39499173043439969242013-09-20T19:59:00.000+01:002013-09-20T19:59:16.085+01:00'Community and Enterprise in Scotland's Town Centres' - Report<div style="text-align: center;">
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APTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-66771168991215370852013-09-20T19:56:00.003+01:002013-09-20T19:56:47.396+01:00Housing Bill - Programme for Government 2013-2014<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span>
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APTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-47340578461897768602013-09-18T17:19:00.003+01:002013-09-18T17:20:05.158+01:00Councillors miss opportunity to help public influence plan?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well I have just finished watching the <a href="http://www.highland.gov.uk/yourcouncil/committees/strategiccommittees/planningenvironmentanddevelopmentcommittee/">PED</a> - via the webcast of their meeting today - discussing <a href="http://www.highland.gov.uk/yourcouncil/committees/strategiccommittees/planningenvironmentanddevelopmentcommittee/2013-09-18-ped-ag.htm">agenda</a> item 10 regarding the Proposed Inner Moray Firth Local Development Plan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The excellent comments made by Councillor Davidson regarding communities and the intervention by Councillor Crawford notwithstanding I must admit I am disappointed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, Councillors seem to have failed to ask the question, even if only 'for the record', as to what exactly is meant by the term 'Settled View'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It is important because the Councillors of the PED were being asked in part to;</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #474a75; font-family: tahoma, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">iii. acknowledge that, as the settled view of the Council, the Proposed Plan as approved will be treated as a material planning consideration for development management purposes as of 18 September 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As far as I am aware, a 'Proposed Plan' actually represents what a Council feels the <b><i><u>final </u></i></b>content of the Plan should be and in reality (according with my previous experience) there is little that can be done (if the Council wishes to simply 'stick to its guns') with respect to achieving any change to that <b><i><u>final </u></i></b>content through any consultation or Examination by a Reporter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There was some discussion at the PED </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">meeting about encouraging the public to put forward their views via a consultation on the Proposed Plan. However </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">all</b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> parties failed to explore the effect that the Plan being a 'Settled View' might have on the way in which public submissions through the Proposed Plan consultation could be treated both by the Council and by the Reporter at examination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Whilst I would not do anything other than encourage full participation in the consultation on this Proposed Inner Moray Firth LDP I contend that the further along in a Plan process you go the less likely you are, as a member of the public particularly, to be able to influence any substantial changes to a 'Proposed Plan' which is a 'Settled View'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>How could we improve this situation?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I would like to see an additional period of time (say 2 weeks) <u><b>before</b></u> a 'Proposed Plan' goes before Committee Councillors, whereby all parties and all Councillors can read over the 'Proposed Plan', and, if necessary, the public can ask questions of their elected members so that they can fully understand the implications of the land allocations and Policies in the PP. Councillors could then have the opportunity to raise concerns or to ask for changes to be considered before the Committee Councillors are asked to adopt a PP as a settled view.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I would also like to see a little extra time set aside - the Government's wishes as expressed in point 58 below notwithstanding - for the Councillors on the Committee and in the areas affected by the plan to read over and digest how the consultation comments on the 'Proposed Plan' have been considered and whether any changes have been made to the 'Proposed Plan' before Councillors agree to send the plan to a Reporter for Examination. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am further disappointed that no one questioned, as far as I can remember, why the consultation period was only the <u>minimum 6 weeks</u> and why it was to take place in the run up to Christmas? (Consultation starting late October presumably will go through November and early December?)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">From 'Circular 1 2009: Development Planning'</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">55. Scottish Ministers expect the proposed plan to represent the planning authority's settled view as to what the final adopted content of the plan should be. This stage should not be used to 'test the water': new or controversial elements of plan content should already have been aired at the main issues report stage (at least as options). Representations by stakeholders and the general public should be concise (no more than 2,000 words plus any limited supporting productions), but should fully explain the issues that people wish to be considered at the examination. There is no automatic opportunity for parties to expand on their representation later in the process. Authorities may therefore wish to consider offering a longer period, of up to 12 weeks for complex plans, to give parties sufficient time to formulate the entirety of their case.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">58. From the proposed plan stage, Scottish Ministers expect the authority's priority to be to progress to adoption as quickly as possible. Pre-examination negotiations and notifiable modifications can cause significant delay and so should not be undertaken as a matter of course, but only where the authority is minded to make significant changes to the plan. The examination also provides an opportunity to change the plan, so if authorities see merit in a representation they may say so in their response to the reporter, and leave them to make appropriate recommendations. However, if authorities wish to support a significant change to the plan, especially one that would entail further neighbour notification, this should be done by means of a pre-examination modification.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...<a href="http://www.carlukegazette.co.uk/news/local-headlines/owenstown-planning-application-is-lodged-1-2663740">After years in preparation</a>, the official planning application to build <a href="http://www.owenstown.org/newsstory11.php">Owenstown</a> was lodged with South Lanarkshire Council on Wednesday (2012) with the promise of 6000 jobs being initially created to construct 3200 new homes in the Douglas Valley.'</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; line-height: 22.390625px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...<a href="http://news.stv.tv/west-central/203203-council-mulling-new-co-operative-town-named-after-robert-owen/">A decision is expected</a> in 2013.'</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>There are some wee snags</i>..." Says <a href="http://www.lesleyriddoch.co.uk/2012/12/owenstown-hometown-of-the-future.html">Lesley Riddoch</a>, </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"...<i>Owenstown isn't part of the official development plan – it's currently neep fields. Will South Lanarkshire Council bend the rules and approve the planning submission? That's not certain. On the one hand there's no other way half a billion pounds of investment will pour into this declining, de-industrialised area. If the Hometown guys had bought development land they'd have forked out a hundred times more - such is the crazy way planning rules and speculation combine to halt development. But councillors may fear Owenstown is too clever by half – a private world within a world that will raise big hard-to-answer questions amongst existing council-tax payers</i>...' (<a href="http://www.lesleyriddoch.co.uk/2012/12/owenstown-hometown-of-the-future.html">Continues at link</a>)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...<a href="http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/news/local-news/hamilton-news/2013/04/25/interest-high-for-proposed-new-town-51525-33234868/">Around 1200 people from all over the world</a> are interested in moving their families to Owenstown...</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, there are still a number of people in the area objecting to the Owenstown project...' (Apr 2013)</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'<a href="http://www.carlukegazette.co.uk/news/local-headlines/owenstown-plans-under-threat-1-3087397">Owenstown plans under threat</a>' </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'<a href="http://www.lanark.co.uk/latest-news/news-detail/is-the-council-about-to-score-an-owen-goal#.Ujh5_dJwqSo">Is the Council about to score an Owen goal</a>?'</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.390625px;"><br /></span>APTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-86601606959738191722013-09-17T15:15:00.001+01:002013-09-17T15:15:07.867+01:00'Scottish Screen Archive'; ' Homes for a Highland Town' - Inverness<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I found a fascinating short film today dating back to the 1950s</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Please click <a href="http://ssa.nls.uk/film/4145">HERE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wonder who the people in the films were?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are a few other video clips available on the site plus lists of other films - several for the Nairn area.</span></div>
APTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-83838888755201928132013-09-16T16:07:00.002+01:002013-09-16T16:18:08.216+01:00So, it all comes down to money then, this NPF3?<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>A quick selection of quotes from several NPF3 Consultee responses to encourage readers to delve deeper and gain further insights </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><u>NB - keep going to the end to find a little 'local flavour'</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">RICS</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...Some of our members felt that the NFP3 fell short of their expectations. Throughout the </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">document, there are too many references to “aspirations”. Aspirations to make something </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">happen cannot, by definition be a “Plan”. Therefore, the Scottish Government must make </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">NPF3 more than aspirational; it should be evidenced-based.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Full RICS response <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00432085.pdf">HERE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...<span style="color: #4c1130;">The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) is the champion of planning and the planning profession. We work to promote the art and science of planning for the public benefit. We have around 2,200 members in Scotland and a worldwide membership of nearly 23,000.'</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...RTPI Scotland believes that planning has an important role in supporting Scottish Government’s ambitions on sustainable development, sustainable economic growth engagement, climate change, place making and well located new development. We are pleased that Scottish Government is committed to the 3rd National Planning Framework (NPF3) and revised Scottish Planning Policy (SPP) and that it recognises the key role </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">they can play and the added value that they can bring</span>.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...<span style="color: #4c1130;">We are pleased to hear that the finalised NPF3 will include an Action Programme along </span></span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the lines of those in strategic and local development plans. This should help ensure that </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the document promotes development which is deliverable. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">However, there is still a need to make the connection between aspirations set out in </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">NPF3 with resources that can enable these to be delivered. This is why it is vital that the </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">document is embedded across Scottish Government and used in the forward planning of </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Key Agencies, utility companies, investors and communities. It also means that we need </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to look beyond the planning system as the only tool in delivering development - NPF3 </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">should better link together development proposals with resourcing and paving initiatives </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">including Tax Incremental Financing, Compulsory Purchase Orders and Prudential </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Borrowing. This will also require a more explicit link between development and </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">infrastructure provision.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Full RTPI response <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00431880.pdf">HERE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...<span style="color: #741b47;">Whilst we note that NPF3 </span></span><span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is not a spending plan, in our view it needs to be aligned with other investment strategies and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">policy frameworks – National Transport Strategy, Second Report on Proposals and Policies, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Zero Waste Plan etc. There is no reference to the broader context of demographic change </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the impact that this will have on land use planning, whether in relation to an increasingly </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ageing population, areas of potential population growth and population decline. All plans </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">should be evidence based. By providing this contextual information NPF3 can ensure that its </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #741b47;">proposals will achieve its aspiration as a statement of ‘Ambition, Opportunity and Place’.</span>'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Full COSLA response <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00431855.pdf">HERE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">CBI - The Voice of Business Scotland</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...<span style="color: #741b47;">We welcome the draft NPF3’s overriding acknowledgement that all planning should be considered </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #741b47;">through the prism of the need for economic recovery</span>.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Full CBI response <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00432084.pdf">HERE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Architecture+Design Scotland</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...<span style="color: #a64d79;">We welcome the strong commitment within the NPF3 to high quality placemaking and we look </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">forward to playing our part in supporting local and central government and other practitioners in </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">the implementation of the policy once it is published by Ministers.</span>'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Full A+DS response <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00432078.pdf">HERE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...<span style="color: #4c1130;">The NPF3 should describe the duelling of the Perth to Inverness railway line as a </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">national priority. The current single track line with limited passing places does not allow </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the rail line to compete with the road network and offers a poorer alternative for freight </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">movement. If journey times are to be significantly reduced then duelling the line is </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...Emissions from aviation and shipping are included in the Climate Change Act, so any </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">expansion of capacity in these sectors must not be allowed to undermine the delivery of </span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">this important legislation. WWF Scotland therefore does not support the inclusion of </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">national developments that will result in an increase in the number of flights from </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Scotland’s priority airports</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Full WWF response <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00432075.pdf">HERE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'<span style="color: #741b47;">...While the intentions set out in the MIR are generally supported, the ability to finance </span></span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and deliver NPF3’s ambitions is a concern. The final document should make links </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">between the aspirations identified and the expected resources, including where </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">further information on access to finance and funding mechanisms can be found. </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Public sector investment alone will be insufficient to match the ambitions. Private </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sector investment and partnership will be necessary to stimulate and deliver many </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">key projects. The final version of NPF3 should identify and explore innovative ways </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of securing additional private capital to fund Scotland’s infrastructure at a reasonable </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...Paragraph 4.22 of the MIR recognises that “connections and transport infrastructure </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">are key to a successful future for towns and cities”, and the recognition of some of </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the key infrastructure challenges facing cities is welcome and could be expanded </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">upon. In particular, Inverness (which is currently missing from this section) and its </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">efforts to accommodate significant growth and respond to the challenges of </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">infrastructure constraints should be included alongside Scotland’s other cities.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Full SCDI response <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00432069.pdf">HERE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Planning Democracy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...<span style="color: #a64d79;">Planning Democracy's NPF2 research identified several communities who did not know about </span></span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">proposals for large-scale national developments on their doorstep, or who did not understand that a development's designation as a 'national' would mean they could not question the need for the development later in the process. Although improved in some ways, the methodology remains much the same</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Full PD response <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00432063.pdf">HERE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...<span style="color: #4c1130;">Cycling Scotland feels that the NPF3 should, indeed, provide a more tangible vision of what future cities and town centres should look like. As discussed above, the vision and policies are in place (Designing Streets, Creating Places, Town Centre Review process, Cycling Action Plan for Scotland, etc.). However, there remains a gap between the actual delivery of places and development that adheres to the policies and aims set out in these documents</span>.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Full Cycling Scotland response <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00432049.pdf">HERE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Scottish Property Federation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'<span style="color: #4c1130;">...The NPF3 is ambitious as its title states and this is welcome. One note of caution however is that the fiscal crisis has produced a very risk averse modern investment environment and it may be difficult to attract inward investment into perceived secondary market areas...'</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...The impact of the fiscal crisis upon the economy and financial services is well documented. For the property industry the impact of the fiscal crisis was already apparent in late 2007 to early 2008. However the sector had become heavily leveraged with lenders. The impact of the crisis was to reduce commercial property values by some 44% between 2008 and late 2009. This loss of value has not been recovered in many instances and indeed, has been under further pressure for secondary property since 2009 while prime property has begun to recover.The market is therefore becoming more polarised in terms of value. Consequently there has been an enhanced emphasis upon prime properties and this may well have a considerable bearing on development investment in the near future. At the same time new restrictions upon lending to real estate and a continued reluctance to take the risk of speculative development will inhibit the willingness of the private sector to take the risk of commercial property development or investment. This may have a direct consequence for the willingness of private investors to venture much beyond well-known and safe areas of investment.'</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...No plan is effective unless it is delivered, even if the plan is subsequently adapted. The NPF will therefore not materialise without a realistic plan for investment in infrastructure. Constraints upon both public and private sources of finance will mean the aspirations of NPF will be challenging for years to come, but it is still important for NPF to link to the Infrastructure Investment Plan.' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Full SPF response <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00432039.pdf" style="color: #4c1130;">HERE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>And a little more 'Local Flavour'</b></span></div>
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'..<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">.It is disappointing that the ‘reasonable alternatives’ to the preferred options in the proposed framework are set out separately in the Environmental Report. Development Plans must present reasonable alternatives up front in the development plan and we would therefore expect a national planning framework to do the same to aid the transparency of the process.</span>'<br />
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'...<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">NPF3 does not identify any road or rail improvements (except High Speed Rail which will have little or no direct benefit for the North of Scotland) as proposed national developments. HITRANS is disappointed that these strategic transport projects have not been identified as proposed national developments and continues to press for their inclusion as national developments (with support from the partners identified </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #741b47;">above) for the reasons outlined below.</span>'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...<span style="color: #741b47;">HITRANS also welcomes the continued identification of Inverness and the Inner </span></span><span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Moray Firth as an Area for Co-ordinated Action. It is, as stated, an area identified </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for major change and investment. The specific, additional reference to West Link </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is welcomed but this should perhaps be broadened to include other strategic, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Inverness City, transport improvements. For example the STPR and National </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Infrastructure Plan includes an A9/A96 connection improvement. All these </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">strategic City transport improvements are to facilitate sustainable economic </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">growth without compromising place making objectives. For example, West Link </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">will allow peripheral expansion of the City without increasing city centre </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #741b47;">congestion and its environmental quality impact.</span>'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Full HITRANS response</span> <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00431940.pdf">HERE</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Turnberry Consulting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...<span style="color: #4c1130;">I write...to provide comments on behalf of Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd. (HIAL) and Inverness Airport Business Park Ltd. (IABP)...<b>we request that the Draft NPF3 is amended to identify Inverness Airport Business Park (IABP) as an initiative for business investment in conjunction with enhancement of Inverness Airport...we request that the draft NPF3 is amended to carry forward the commitments in NPF2 (para 214) to dualling of the A96 Nairn and creation of a transport interchange at Dalcross.'</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Full TC response <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00431932.pdf">HERE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Moray Estates</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'..<span style="color: #741b47;">.</span><b><span style="color: #741b47;">Tornagrain should be specifically recognised in NPF3...request... identify Tornagrain for its contribution to delivering new homes and setting the standard for new community design in the region.</span>'</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...<span style="color: #4c1130;">Tornagrain in located adjacent to Inverness Airport and Inverness Airport Business Park. The level of development planned for the A96 Corridor is dependent on infrastructure improvements coming forward, particularly the dualling of the A96 and creation of a new rail halt at Dalcross. The link between planned growth and a commitment to delivering these infrastructure projects was clear in NPF2. The loss of that link within the current draft of NPF3 is of concern to the estate as it suggests that these projects are no longer priorities for the Government. The Estate considers that these infrastructure projects are of national importance and need to be aligned with the spatial strategy for the region</span>...</span><b style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">we request that the draft NPF3 is amended to reaffirm the Government's commitment to bringing forward the dualling of the A96 and the creation of a new rail halt at Dalcross over the short to medium term'</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Full ME response <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00431979.pdf">HERE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'...<span style="color: #a64d79;">Regarding key airports, the inclusion of Inverness airport as a national </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">development is essential (para 5.36). </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is not just a matter of capacity. Both Inverness and Aberdeen airports </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">illustrate a failure of strategic planning in the past. Neither has an </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">appropriately-located rail link for the terminal. Neither has efficient and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">convenient trunk road access. Neither has any kind of multi-modal interchange.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">...It is unrealistic to turn the sow's ear into a silk purse. But Inverness airport </span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">seriously needs major improvement .</span><br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">...On High Speed Rail, an upgraded service between the Central belt and London </span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">would be of indirect benefit to the Highlands. But improvements in the Highland </span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">mainline and in the Aberdeen-Inverness service (as noted in para 5.2 and map </span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">23) would be of greater direct value</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> ...<span style="color: #a64d79;">Highland the increasing growth and </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">centralisation of services in Inverness is exacerbating the depopulation and </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">decline of the rural hinterland.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Full NWCC response <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0043/00431901.pdf">HERE</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[<b>List of NPF3 MIR Consultation Responses</b> <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2013/08/7893/downloads">here</a> ]</span></div>
APTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-51541002077488307872013-09-16T14:26:00.001+01:002013-09-16T14:26:10.070+01:00"At a local level population growth has resulted mainly from the building of new homes."<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Received the other day from Research Officer at THC:</span></div>
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'We have published Briefing Note <a href="http://www.highland.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/2AE40FF0-8C8B-44B8-A3FB-D06B76EFA4EA/0/BN57.pdf"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">57: Census 2011 - Population
Change in Highland 2001-2011</span></a> on our website at:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.highland.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/2AE40FF0-8C8B-44B8-A3FB-D06B76EFA4EA/0/BN57.pdf">Briefing
Note 57</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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The main findings are:<o:p></o:p></div>
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and should see a steady increase in the number of retired people.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span>The strongest population growth has been in Inverness South
and Aird & Loch Ness Wards.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Culloden & Ardersier Wards have declined.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span>At a local level population growth has resulted mainly from
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292 data zones has fallen.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span>The future publication of results starting on 26th
September will give detailed information at a local level.<o:p></o:p></div>
APTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-66490003276272886982013-09-16T14:17:00.001+01:002013-09-16T14:17:21.092+01:00'...90 houses a year...' at Tornagrain<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I came across this on the internet:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">'...Given that at Tornagrain the plan is to build 90 houses a year, Duany has no expectation of seeing the scheme completed in his lifetime. However, that is a situation with which he seems quite content. “As you become an urbanist you become a futurist. An architect finishes in five years; our Scottish projects may take 50 years to build out,” he says.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">The article, by <a href="http://www.bdonline.co.uk/ellis-woodman/14957.bio">Ellis Woodman</a> also states:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">'...In the case of his three permitted Scottish projects, he is not expecting — nor even particularly hoping — that all the architecture will be of high quality. The likely outcome certainly sounds far removed from a project like Poundbury.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Link to full article <a href="http://www.bdonline.co.uk/andr%C3%A9s-duany-and-the-new-enlightenment/5056569.article">here</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And I thought that the 'New Town', near Tornagrain, was supposed to <a href="http://www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/castle_stuart_tornagrain.htm">'echo' Prince Charles' Poundbury principles?</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well at least that is the impression I formed all those years ago when I attended the 'Charrette' events</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">[See also <a href="http://actionforplanningtransparency.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/tornagrain-first-200.html">Tornagrain - the first 200?</a> ]</span></h3>
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APTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-76438849585925494452013-09-13T14:17:00.000+01:002013-09-13T14:17:03.693+01:00INNER MORAY FIRTH PROPOSED LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN - 6 Week Consultation <b><br /></b>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Proposed Plan for the Inner Moray Firth is go to the Planning Committee Next week</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Committee Report is <a href="http://www.highland.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/DC1F96AF-7138-4380-A203-ADC9E9CCD3ED/0/Item10PED5913.pdf">HERE</a></span></b><br />
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<b>[IMPORTANT - SEE SECTION HIGHLIGHTED IN BOLD BELOW]</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">PED Committee is asked to </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(i) note the comments received on the Main Issues Report and the proposed responses as set out in Appendix 3;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(ii) agree the Proposed Plan and Action Programme as set out in Appendices 1 and 2 for a 6 week public consultation subject to minor post-Committee changes, including formatting, typographic and illustrative amendments agreed in consultation with the Chair of this Committee;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(iii) a<b>cknowledge that, as the settled view of the Council, <u>the Proposed Plan as approved will be treated as a material planning consideration for development management purposes as of 18th September 2013.</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><u><br /></u></span>APTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-69565841010463625172013-09-13T13:57:00.000+01:002013-09-13T13:57:16.986+01:00"INVERNESS AIRPORT BUSINESS PARK – ANNUAL REPORT" put before PED<br />
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'This report provides Members with updated information on the current financial position of Inverness Airport Business Park Limited. Members are invited to note the report.<br />
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The Inverness Airport Business Park (IABP) Limited company was established in May 2005 and is a joint venture between Highlands and Islands Airports Limited, Moray Estates and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.<br />
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Inverness Airport Business Park Ltd issued Loan Stock of £1.175m to the Council to reflect the cost incurred by the Council in building the new access road to the airport from the A96. The repayment of this Loan Stock will allow the Council to recover its costs in constructing the road, albeit over a period of<br />
time. The Council is currently represented on Inverness Airport Business Park Ltd. Board of Directors by Councillor Thomas Prag, whilst the Director of Planning and Development currently attends an executive group in an advisory capacity. This provides the Council with the ability to closely monitor the financial situation of the Inverness Airport Business Park Ltd.<br />
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As reported to the Planning Environment and Development Committee in January 2011, Inverness Airport Business Park Ltd opted to defer the first repayment of the Loan Stock, amounting to £587.5k, due to be received by the Council in May 2010. This deferment was made in accordance with the Loan Stock agreement which allows the Company to defer the payment if they believe the repayment would have a prejudicial impact on their business proposals for the Business Park. Under the deferment arrangements, the<br />
2010 repayment now becomes payable to the Council in May 2015 unless independent reviews of the Company’s accounts indicate the deferred amount can be paid earlier. The company has no option but to repay the loan stock if these independent reviews provide an opinion that the repayment can be made without prejudicing the development.<br />
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...Inverness Airport Business Park Ltd continues to have insufficient funds to repay the Loan Stock without the payment having a prejudicial impact on their business proposals for the Business Park...<br />
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The Balance Sheet to March 2013 indicates the net worth of the company as £317,799 (£392,782 as at March 2012) and the Profit and Loss Accounts report a loss of £77,983 (loss of £21,475 for the year to March 2012) over the same period. These figures reflect that the company has still to fully commence its trading activities and is at an early stage in developing the business park<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Report can be found <a href="http://www.highland.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/23C1C180-894D-4BC5-8306-ACAC9793893A/0/Item15PED6413.pdf">here</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>From 2009 Press and Journal item</b>;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"<a href="http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1509871">Plans for a multimillion-pound business park next to Inverness Airport could be approved next week.</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1509871"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 500-acre development on land south and west of the airport is expected to boost the region’s economy by more than £100million a year and create 1,250 jobs by 2021.</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1509871"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The scheme at Dalcross would also include conference facilities, hotels, industrial units, restaurants and shops.</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1509871">Construction could begin in 2011.</a>"</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/Home/Airports-500-acre-business-park-is-cleared-for-take-off-5529197.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25px;">Airport's 500-acre business park is cleared for take-off</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the life of the project the business park is expected to extend over 550 acres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It will include offices, hotels, conference facilities, shops, restaurants and industrial units covering an area 34 times the size of the current Tesco store at Inverness Retail Park.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Over the next decade it is expected to create in the region of 1200 jobs and generate millions of pounds for the local economy."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5em;">From 07 April 2011</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-12999073"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A development company has said it would expect to spend £30m in creating the first phase of a new business park at the main airport in the Highlands.</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">IABP said the deal was one of the most significant for the Highlands in years and could lead to more than 1,200 jobs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Work on the first phase could start by the end of this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.5em;">From June 12 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">'<a href="http://www.tandlonline.com/news/bristow-boss-tours-inverness-airport-business-park/#">Bristow Boss Tours Inverness Airport Business Park'</a></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From 19 March 2013 Inverness Courier</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/News/Business/Patient-approach-needed-at-Inverness-Airport-Business-Park-18032013.htm">"PATIENCE will be needed as efforts continue to attract companies to the Inverness Airport Business Park, the organisation’s new chairman has warned.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/News/Business/Patient-approach-needed-at-Inverness-Airport-Business-Park-18032013.htm">More than three years after the 250 hectare project received planning consent, Bond Air Services remains the only tenant and no operator has come forward to run a hoped- for hotel."</a></span></div>
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I wonder how much time it will take for the Council to get its Loan Stock repaid?</div>
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<br />APTSechttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11994574392753622144noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9115058041383257986.post-78008661369950648552013-09-13T13:27:00.001+01:002013-09-13T13:27:12.297+01:00Service Plan puts "...customers and communities at the heart of everything..."<div style="text-align: center;">
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'Planning and Development Service Seirbheis Dealbhaidh is Leasachaidh </div>
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Service Plan Plana Seirbheis </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Plan states:</span><br />
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"The Planning and Development Service has drafted a new Service Plan, which describes the Service strategy for the period to May 2017. It is a source of information for the public, Council Members, Service management and staff. This is the strategic document for the Service, outlining the current position and our<br />
main improvement priorities, the impact of these, and how they will be evaluated. It is supported by corporate policies, business and operational plans designed to deliver the Programme for the Highland Council and other key Service objectives...<br />
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The draft Service Plan confirms the following vision and mission statement<br />
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To be the best Planning & Development Service in Scotland.<br />
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‘To promote sustainable economic growth and to safeguard the built and natural<br />
environment of the Highlands’.<br />
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In achieving this vision the service will be guided by the Values of the Highland<br />
Council and the following principles:<br />
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• Open for business – a “can do” approach<br />
• Team work – support for our staff and partners to achieve excellence<br />
• Customer focus – our customers and communities at the heart of everything<br />
• Innovation – developing best practice<br />
• Continuous improvement - in everything we do.."<br />
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