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Dear Consultee

STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AUTHORITIES: DESIGNATION ORDERS AND STATUTORY GUIDANCE - CONSULTATION PAPER

Comments are invited on the attached consultation paper on the proposed designation orders for the Strategic Development Planning Authorities and related statutory guidance. The consultation flows from Section 4 of the Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006 which gives Ministers powers to designation groups of planning authorities to work together to prepare strategic development plans.

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR SAY

A 12 week consultation is now being undertaken on the consultation paper. To ensure that the final framework for planning performance assessment meets your needs the Scottish Executive would like to know what you think. Please send your views by 26 October 2007 to the address, or e-mail, noted below.

Responses to :-

SDPAdesignation@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
or
Rosie Leven

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 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 If you ask for your response not to be published we will regard it as confidential and will treat it accordingly.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.

What Happens Next?

Where respondents have given permission for their response to be made public (see the attached Respondent Information Form), these will be made available to the public in the Scottish Executive Library within 20 working days of the closing date and on the Scottish Executive consultation web pages shortly after. We will check all responses where agreement to publish has been given for any potentially defamatory material before logging them in the library or otherwise publishing them. You can make arrangements to view responses by contacting the SE library on 031 244 4565. Responses can be copied and sent to you, but a charge may be made for this service.

Following the closing date, all responses will be analysed and considered along with any other available evidence to inform the detail of the final assessment framework. We aim to publish the final regulations in spring 2008, so that the new Strategic Development Planning Authorities have time to prepare for the commencement of the new system, later in 2008.

Comments and complaints

If you have any concerns about how this consultation exercise has been conducted please send them to me at the above address.

Further Information

Requests for additional copies of the consultation paper should be directed to Sandra Carey on 0131 244 7540.

Yours faithfully

Rosie Leven
Principal Planner

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