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Summary
1. New housing developments require significant amounts of land. Housing has a long-term impact on Scotland's landscape, whether in urban or rural areas, as well as on the health and well-being of its people and communities, and is a key component of sustainable economic growth. The Scottish Government has proposed a national goal to increase the rate of new housing supply to at least 35,000 houses every year by the middle of the next decade. Planning has a central role to play in meeting this aspiration through the identification of sufficient land to support an increased supply of the right kinds of houses in the right places.
2. SPP3 sets out the Scottish Government's policy on the identification of housing requirements, the provision of land for housing and the delivery of housing through the planning system. The overarching aim is to refocus the role of planning in the delivery of housing, from debates around the calculations of housing requirements and land availability, to building a better, more diverse range of houses to serve the economic, social and environmental aspirations of Scotland.
3. The key objectives of the SPP are to provide policy guidance on the:
- identification of housing need and demand on a more aspirational, but consistent and robust, basis;
- allocation of sufficient appropriate land to meet identified need and demand for housing, including affordable housing, across all tenures, and mechanisms to ensure those houses are built;
- creation of high quality residential environments; and
- interface between planning control and licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation.
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