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The Revised (consolidated) Scottish Planning Policy

The RTPI’s response to this consultation was discussed at a special meeting of the Scottish Executive Committee together with members of the Policy Sub-committee. 

In summary, the RTPI in Scotland welcomed the consolidation of the Scottish Government’s Planning Policy (SPP) into one reasonably short document. We agreed that a consolidated SPP should make national planning policy clearer and easier to understand. However, we considered that:

• the full suite of planning policy documents, NPF2, SHEP, Designing Places, Designing Streets, the Statutory Guidance on Sustainable Development, and Parts 1,2, and 3 of the SPP, should be clearly identified and cross-referenced;
• it will be important for further advice, guidance and good practice examples to be available in linked documents to ensure consistency of approach and to clarify the rationale of policy positions;
• further clarification of approaches both to sustainable development and climate change issues will be necessary; and
• the consolidation should be seen as a first step in the development of comprehensive and up-to-date planning policy particularly in relation to climate change; the RTPI considers that the planning system must play a key role in the development and implementation of Scottish Government’s climate change policies.

View the full RTPI in Scotland consultation response to the SPP here

View the RTPI in Scotland consultation response to the Strategic Environmental Assessment associated with the SPP here

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Author:

James Henderson

Publisher:

The Royal Town Planning Institute

Date:

30-Jun-09

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