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ACTION PROGRAMMES
77. SDPAs and planning authorities are required by Section 21 of the Act to prepare action programmes ( APs) for SDPs and LDPs. APs set out how the authority proposes to implement the plan. Draft regulation 27 proposes that they should be required to set out:
- A list of actions required to deliver each of the plan's policies and proposals;
- The name of who is to carry out the action; and
- The timescale for carrying out each action.
78. As such, the draft regulations do not attempt to specify particular types of action that should be included, though these may be expected to include the delivery of key infrastructure and the preparation of supplementary guidance (see para 81 below). Actions are not limited to those by the planning authority.
79. In preparing APs, authorities are to consult and consider the views of the key agencies and (as proposed in draft regulation 26):
- The Scottish Ministers;
- The area Health Board; and
- Anyone the authority proposes specifying by name in the AP.
80. The Act requires proposed APs to be published and submitted to Scottish Ministers alongside proposed SDPs and LDPs. Then the AP is to be adopted and published within 3 months of the plan to which it relates being approved/ adopted. Thereafter, the authority are to keep the AP under review and update and republish it at least every 2 years. Whenever an AP is published, the authority are to send 2 copies to Scottish Ministers, place copies in local libraries and publish electronically.
Q14 Are you satisfied with the proposed regulations for action programmes?
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