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Publication - Impact assessment

Local living and 20 minute neighbourhoods - planning guidance: final impact assessment report update

Published
25 April 2024
Directorate
Local Government and Housing Directorate
Part of
Arts, culture and sport, Building, planning and design, Building a new Scotland, +7 more … Communities and third sector, Education, Environment and climate change, Equality and rights, Health and social care, Housing, Public sector
ISBN
9781836011781

This impact assessment report update relates to our planning guidance on local living and 20 minute neighbourhoods which was produced to support the implementation of the policy framework within the fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4).

View supporting documents Supporting documents

Footnotes

1 The Place and Wellbeing Outcomes - developed by the Place and Wellbeing Collaborative. Retrieved from: https://www.improvementservice.org.uk/products-and-services/consultancy-and-support/planning-for-place-programme/place-and-wellbeing-outcomes (accessed December 2023)

2 Public Health Scotland (2022), “Evidence behind the Place Standard Tool and Place and Wellbeing Outcomes”. Retrieved from https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/evidence-behind-place-standard-tool-and-place-and-wellbeing-outcomes/evidence-behind-place-standard-tool-and-place-and-wellbeing-outcomes/ (accessed December 2023).

3 The National Plan for Scotland's Islands - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) (2019)

4 Mid-year Population Estimates, 2020: Report (nrscotland.gov.uk)

5Transport and Travel in Scotland (2022)

6 National Records of Scotland; Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland, Mid 2016; 2018: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//statistics/settlements-localities/set-loc-16/set-loc-2016-publication-updated.pdf

7 Ofcom; Connected Nations 2019 Scotland Report; 2020: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0028/186409/connected-nations-2019-scotland-report.pdf

8 Scottish Government; National Islands Plan Survey, Final Report; 2021: https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/research-and-analysis/2021/07/national-islands-plan-survey-final-report/documents/national-islands-plan-survey-final-report/national-islands-plan-survey-final-report/govscot%3Adocument/national-islands-plan-survey-final-report.pdf

9 Highlands and Islands Enterprise; Young People and the Highlands and Islands: Maximising Opportunities; 2018: https://www.hie.co.uk/research-and-reports/our-reports/2018/may/31/yp-research/

10 Scottish Government; National Planning Framework 4 – draft: consultation analysis; 2022: https://www.gov.scot/publications/draft-fourth-national-planning-framework-analysis-responses-consultation-exercise-analysis-report/

Contact

Email: chief.planner@gov.scot

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