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Examples of Emerging Approaches
22. It is very early stages and so useful examples of how planning authorities might approach consideration of whether policies in a plan are likely to have significant effect are thin on the ground. However, a few planning authorities have adopted interesting approaches and here are two that you may wish to contact: The Glasgow and Clyde Valley Structure Plan Team and The Joint Ayrshire Structure Plan Team.
23. Unfortunately the plans were not on their website at the time of finalising this Guidance but they will be happy to discuss their process with you or, if available when you contact them, provide you with a copy of their approach. The same principles also apply to local plans and your local SNH office will be able to point you in the direction of local plans currently in preparation where interesting approaches have been undertaken.
24. The Joint Ayrshire Structure Plan includes an addition to a general condition on the protection of European sites which you may wish to consider. It ensures that no application will be approved that does not comply with the plan. Please note that the Executive is not endorsing the content of these plans as they have still to be approved by The Scottish Ministers. We are simply drawing attention to the methods used to enable a conclusion to be reached by authorities on whether policies are likely to have a significant effect.
Table 1 gives an indication of the steps which the above process involves and which planning authorities may find helpful to adopt
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