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SCOTTISH PLANNING POLICY: SPP17 - PLANNING FOR TRANSPORT

DescriptionThis SPP replaces NPPG 9 The Provision of Roadside Facilities on Motorways and Other Trunk Roads in Scotland, NPPG 17 Transport and Planning and SPP17 Transport and Planning Maximum Parking Standards Addendum to NPPG 17. Background material and good practice is in Planning Advice Note 75.
ISBN0755926315
Official Print Publication Date
Website Publication DateAugust 17, 2005

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August 2005
ISBN 0 7559 2631 5
ISSN 1741 1203

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Contents
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SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION

1

POLICY CONTEXT

SPP objectives

2

The transport vision

4

Integration objectives

6

Health and transport

8

Regional and Local Transport Strategies

9

Rural Access and Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003

Planning for transport in rural areas

11

Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003

13

MAJOR STRATEGIC PROJECTS

A National Transport Strategy

14

Relationship of strategic planning to major transport projects

Policy support

15

Support to infrastructure delivery

19

Planning for strategic roads

21

Planning for railways

23

Planning for guided transit

24

Planning for buses

25

Planning for airports

26

Planning for seaports

29

LOCAL PLANS AND TRANSPORT PROJECTS

Relating land use to existing and proposed networks

32

Planning for travel modes

General

35

Walking

38

Cycling

40

Public transport

41

Cars

43

Planning for inclusive mobility

44

Women and transport

45

Planning for people with mobility impairments

46

Planning for freight

47

ASSESSING DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS

General

50

Maximum parking standards

General

52

Parking for disabled people

62

Cycle parking

66

National maximum parking standards

67

Development management implications

68

Transport assessment

69

Travel plans

70

Development affecting trunk and other strategic roads

71

Roadside services facilities provision

General

74

Motorways

77

Other trunk and strategic roads

78

A9 policy

82

CONCLUSIONS

83

ENQUIRIES

84

PLANNING SERIES:
  • Scottish Planning Policies ( SPPs) provide statements of Scottish Executive policy on nationally important land use and other planning matters, supported where appropriate by a locational framework.
  • Circulars, which also provide statements of Scottish Executive policy, contain guidance on policy implementation through legislative or procedural change.
  • Planning Advice Notes ( PANs) provide advice on good practice and other relevant information.

Statements of Scottish Executive policy contained in SPPs and Circulars may be material considerations to be taken into account in development plan preparation and development management.

Existing National Planning Policy Guidelines ( NPPGs) have continued relevance to decision making, until such time as they are replaced by a SPP. The term SPP should be interpreted as including NPPGs.

Statements of Scottish Executive location-specific planning policy, for example the West Edinburgh Planning Framework, have the same status in decision making as SPPs.

The National Planning Framework sets out the strategy for Scotland's long-term spatial development. It has the same status as SPPs and provides a national context for development plans and planning decisions and the ongoing programmes of the Scottish Executive, public agencies and local government.

Important Note: In the interests of brevity and conciseness, Scottish Planning Policies do NOT repeat policy across thematic boundaries. Each SPP takes as read the general policy in SPP1, and highlights the other SPPs where links to other related policy will be found. The whole series of SPPs should be taken as an integral policy suite and read together.

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