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  SCOTTISH NATIONAL PLANNING POLICY GUIDELINES, PLANNING ADVICE NOTES & CIRCULARS

The Scottish Government Website is: www.scotland.gov.uk/planning where summaries of each document and general planning guidance for Scotland can be viewed.

Scottish Planning Policy (SPPs)
Statements of Scottish Executive Policy on nationally important land use.

SPP 1 The Planning System
(Revised November 2002)
Contents: The Purpose of the Planning System. The Planning System and the wider objectives of the Scottish Executive. European Dimension. Development Plans. Development Control.
The Planning Service.

SPP 2 Business and Industry
(Revised November 2002)
Contents: Policy Context. The Changing Scene. Policy Guidelines. Action Required. National Locational Guidelines. Planning Applications Likely to Raise a National Issue.

 

NATIONAL PLANNING POLICY GUIDELINES (NPPG's)

These are statements of Scottish Executive Policy on Land Use Planning issues. Their requirements will be the foundation for any planning proposals.

NPPG 1 The Planning System (Nov 2000)

NPPG 2 Business & Industry (Nov 1994)

NPPG 3 Land for Housing (Nov 1996)

NPPG 4 Land for Mineral Working (April 1994)

NPPG 5 Archaeology and Planning (Jan 1994)

NPPG 6 Renewable Energy (Nov 2000)

NPPG 7 Planning & Flooding (Sept 1995)

NPPG 8 Town Centres & Retailing (Oct 1998)

NPPG 9 The Provision of Roadside Facilities on Motorways and Other Trunk Roads in Scotland (Mar 1996)

NPPG10 Planning & Waste Management (March 1996)

NPPG11 Sport, Physical Recreation & Open Space (June 1996)

NPPG12 Skiing Developments (June 1997)

NPPG13 Coastal Planning (Aug 1997)

NPPG14 Natural Heritage (Jan 1999)

NPPG15 Rural Development (Feb 1999)

NPPG16 Opencast Coal and Related Minerals (March 1999)

NPPG17 Transport & Planning (April 1999)

NPPG18 Planning and the Historic Environment (April 1999)

NPPG19 Radio Telecommunications (July 2001)

 

PLANNING ADVICE NOTES (PAN's)

These advice notes contain information on good planning practice and will be taken into account in considering planning proposals.

PAN 33 Development of Contaminated Land (Oct 2000)

PAN 36 Siting & Design of New Housing in the Countryside (Feb 1991)

PAN 37 Structure Planning (Dec 1996)

PAN 38 Structure Plans: Housing Land Requirements (Nov 1996)

PAN 39 Farm and Forestry Buildings (March 1993)

PAN 40 Development Control (Revised March 2001)

PAN 41 Development Plan Departures (March 1997)

PAN 42 Archaeology (Jan 1994)

PAN 43 Golf Courses & Associated Developments (April 1994)

PAN 44 Fitting New Housing Development into the Landscape (March 1994)

PAN 45 Renewable Energy Technologies (Aug 1994) - under review

PAN 46 Planning for Crime Prevention (Oct 1994)

PAN 47 Community Councils & Planning (March 1996)

PAN 48 Planning Application Forms (May 1996)

PAN 49 Local Planning (May 1996)

PAN 50 Controlling the Environmental Effects of Mineral Workings (Oct 1996)

PAN 50 Annex A - The Control of Noise at Surface Mineral Workings

PAN 50 Annex B - The Control of Dust at Surface Mineral Workings

PAN 50 Annex C - The Control of Traffic at Surface Mineral Workings

PAN 50 Annex D - The Control of Blasting at Surface Mineral Workings

PAN 51 - Planning & Environmental Protection (March 1997)

PAN 52 - Planning in Small Towns (April 1997)

PAN 53 - Clasifying the Coast for Planning Purposes (October 1998)

PAN 54 - Planning Enforcement (March 1999)

PAN 55 - The Private Finance Initiative and the Planning Process (March 1999)

PAN 56 - Planning & Noise (April 1999)

PAN 57 - Transport & Planning (April 1999)

PAN 58 - Environmental Impact Assessment (Sept 1999)

PAN 59 - Improving Town Centres (Oct 1999)

PAN 60 - Planning for Natural Heritage (Aug 2000)

PAN 61 - Planning & Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (July 2001)

PAN 62 - Radio Telecommunications (Sept 2001)

PAN 63 Waste Management Planning (February 2002)

PAN 64 Reclamation of Surface Mineral Workings (January 2003)

PAN 65 Planning and Open Space (Jan 2003)

PAN 68 Design Statements (August 2003)

  

CIRCULARS

These are statements of policy guidance implemented through legislative or procedural change.

The following have been issued since 1998

Circular 25/1998 - Review of Old Mineral Permissions and Environmental Impact Assessment

Circular 2/1999 - The Town & Country Planning (Scotland)(Minerals) Regulations 1998

Circular 3/1999 - The Town & Country Planning (Compensation for Restrictions on Mineral Working and Mineral Waste Depositing)(Scotland) Regulations 1998

Circular 4/1999 - Planning Enforcement

Circular 9/1999 - Indicative Forestry Strategies

Circular 10/1999 - Planning & Noise

Circular 15/1999 - The Environmental Impact Assessment (Scotland) Regulations 1999

Circular 1/2000 - Code of Practice for Planning Appeals and other Planning Cases Determined by Written Submissions

Circular 4/2000 - The Town & Country Planning (Fees for Applications & Deemed Applications)(Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2000

Circular 1/2001 - The Town & country Planning (Demolition which is not Development)(Scotland) Direction 2001

Circular 5/2001 - 10 - 29 - The Town & Country Planning (Limit of Annual Value)(Scotland) Order 2001

Circular 3/2002 - Town and Country Planning Fees for Applications (Scotland) Amendment Regulations
                              (
Effective from April 2002)

Circular 8/2002- Control of Development in Airport Public Safety Zones 

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