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INTRODUCTION
1. The Scottish Government is leading a major programme of modernisation for Scotland's planning system. The Government's overarching purpose is the promotion of sustainable economic growth, and Planning has an important contribution to make. Working within the framework of the Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006, a package of proposals for implementing secondary legislation and attendant guidance has been brought forward for consultation.
2. One integral element of the consultation exercises has been a series of public seminars on planning modernisation with a wide range of key stakeholders. We conducted six seminars, three open to a range of planning interests with a further three focused on matters of interest to planning authority officers.
3. Directorate officials agreed to record the key questions raised at these events, and to set out the answers in a summary report to be shared with attendees and a wider audience. Some questions raised issues meriting further consideration by policy leads not in attendance, but these have been addressed subsequently by the responsible officials, and are also set out herein. This Directorate report will also be published on the Scottish Government's planning webpages.
4. This report summarises the planning modernisation seminars run between January and March 2008 as part of the following planning consultation exercises:
Consultation | Closing date |
|---|
SPP 3: Planning for Housing | 31/03/08 |
Development Planning | 20/02/08 |
Development Plan Examination | 04/04/08 |
Development Management | 02/04/08 |
Planning Hierarchy | 31/03/08 |
Modernising Planning Appeals | 09/05/08 |
Enforcement | 20/02/08 |
5. The report does not seek to define or anticipate how Scottish Ministers will deal with responses to the consultations later in 2008. The intention is to offer clarification on current thinking on some of the more detailed or contentious areas of the modernisation package, and to assist consultees in responding to the consultation exercises.
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