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Dear Consultee,

CONSULTATION ON DRAFT SCOTTISH PLANNING POLICY ( SPP) 10: PLANNING FOR WASTE MANAGEMENT

I enclose a copy of consultative draft revised planning policies on waste management and invite your comments on this document. When finalised, the SPP will replace NPPG 10: Planning and Waste Management.

Responding to this consultation paper

Comments should be sent, before 6 November 2006, to: SPP10@scotland.gsi.gov.uk or in writing to:

Comments on any aspect of the policy are welcome. To aid our analysis of responses, we would be grateful if you could clearly indicate, where relevant, the paragraphs to which your comments relate. This consultation, and all other Scottish Executive consultation exercises, can be viewed online on the consultation pages of the Scottish Executive website at www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations . Further copies of the document are available by telephoning (0131) 244 7543. You can telephone Freephone 0800 77 1234 to find out where your nearest public internet access point is.

The Scottish Executive now has an email alert system for consultations. This system allows stakeholder individuals and organisations to register and receive a weekly email containing details of all new consultations (including web links). SEconsult complements, but in no way replaces Scottish Executive distribution lists, and is designed to allow stakeholders to keep up to date with all Scottish Executive consultation activity, and therefore be alerted at the earliest opportunity to those of most interest. You can register at SEconsult: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/consultations/seconsult.aspx .

Handling your response

We need to know how you wish your response to be handled and, in particular, whether you are happy for your response to be made public. Please complete and return the Respondent Information Form enclosed with this consultation paper as this will ensure that we treat your response appropriately. If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential and we will treat it accordingly.

All respondents should be aware that the Scottish Executive are subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the Act for information relating to responses made to this consultation exercise.

Next steps in the process

Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public, their responses will be made available in the Scottish Executive Library within 20 working days of the closing date and on the Scottish Executive consultation web pages by 15 December 2006. We will check all responses where agreement to publish has been given for any potentially defamatory material before logging them in the library or placing them on the website. You can arrange to view responses by contacting the Scottish Executive Library on 0131 244 4565. Responses can be copied and sent to you, but a charge may be made for this service.

What happens next?

Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to help us reach a decision on the contents of the finalised policy. We aim to issue a report on this consultation process early in 2007. This will be published on the Executive's website at www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Planning/About/Consultations

Questions, Comments and complaints

If you have any questions, comments or complaints including those relating to the conduct of this consultation exercise, please send them to me at:

Yours faithfully,

GRAHAM MARCHBANK

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