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4.0 JOINT STRUCTURE PLAN TEAM WEBSITES
OVERVIEW AND KEY FINDINGS
4.0 Overview and Key Findings for December 2005
4.1 On behalf of the Scottish Executive, PPA surveyed the websites of the Ayrshire Joint Structure Plan and the Glasgow and Clyde Valley Joint Structure Plan against a set of 11 criteria. Both are governed by joint committees of the constituent local authorities and have dedicated staff, offices and websites.
4.2 The criteria were based on the 21 Pendleton Criteria but modified to reflect the roles and responsibilities of joint structure plan teams. The criteria include the preparation, consultation and monitoring of the joint structure plan and enabling the user to submit feedback about strategic planning applications electronically as part of the application consultation process.
4.3 The Ayrshire Joint Structure Plan site met 11 of the criteria, and the Glasgow & Clyde Valley Joint Structure Plan site met 6. See Appendix 2 for a spreadsheet of scores for each Team.
4.4 Both the Ayrshire and the Glasgow & Clyde Structure Plan websites enabled the user to view the Joint Structure Plan text and Key Diagrams online.
4.5 The Ayrshire Structure Plan Key Diagram was interactively linked to the Structure Plan Policy.
4.6 At the time of testing, the Ayrshire and Glasgow & Clyde Valley ( G&CV) website had the facility for members of the public to submit online representations about the forthcoming Structure Plan. Representations could be submitted via email or feedback form.
4.7 The Ayrshire and the Glasgow & Clyde Valley Structure Plan websites provided a good level of online information relating to the monitoring of the Structure Plan process. The G&CV Structure Plan website included a downloadable statement of publicity and consultation, a variety of technical reports, a report about matters under review, issues reports and consultation drafts. The Ayrshire Structure Plan website included a projected timetable for the adoption of the Structure plan and downloadable copies of issues leaflets, summaries of comments and representations, consultation drafts and background documents.
4.8 Both Structure Plan websites had a publications page that allowed users to order copies of the Structure Plan documentation electronically. However, Glasgow & Clyde Valley's publications page was not working at the time of testing and could not be awarded a point at this time. The Ayrshire publications page included an online order form.
4.9 The Ayrshire Structure Plan website presented a list of 'strategic planning consultations' under the 'Structure Plan' menu tab. The list includes the weekly applications lists from each partner authority and a list of applications that had been referred from the local authorities to the Team for their comment.
4.10 The Ayrshire Structure Plan website enabled the user to download recent and archived committee papers for the joint committee. Copies of meeting minutes and agendas dating back to 2000 could be viewed online and a schedule of joint committee meetings was listed for the forthcoming year.
4.11 Both the Glasgow & Clyde and the Ayrshire Structure Plan websites enabled the user to access links to the websites of their constituent local authorities.
4.12 Both Structure Plan websites also had links to other relevant bodies - for example, the Scottish Executive, Communities Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, The Health and Safety Executive, Scottish Water, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Scottish Enterprise.
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