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Friday, October 4, 2019

Planning & Building

National Planning Framework 3 Monitoring Report

We've published the National Planning Framework 3 Monitoring Report today.  Thank you to everyone who has been involved in its preparation. It sets out the progress towards the key actions and national developments which support delivery of the spatial strategy and is an incredibly useful resource to have in advance public engagement on National Planning Framework 4 planned for next year. 

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Unconventional Oil and Gas Direction

The Chief Planner yesterday issued a Direction which requires planning authorities to notify the receipt of any planning application for any Unconventional Oil and Gas developments to Scottish Ministers. Ministers can call-in an application at any time for it to be considered, ensuring that decisions on onshore unconventional oil and gas developments can be made having regard to planning policy and procedure, and the framework of Scottish Government policy.

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Planning and Architecture Division Business Plan 2019 - 2020

The Minister for Local Government, Housing and Planning has agreed Planning and Architecture Division's 2019-20 Business Plan.  This sets out the next steps for our ongoing programme of Planning reform Transforming Planning in Practice while continuing to lead the delivery of Scottish Ministers' statutory responsibilities and policies for the operation of the Planning system and development and use of land. 

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Transforming Planning in Practice - reform work programme published

The Scottish Government has published its work programme for implementing the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 and continuing its wider programme of planning reforms.  The work programme is available on the Scottish Government website https://www.gov.scot/publications/transforming-planning-practice-post-bill-work-programme/ .

There is a lot of work to be done in a short period of time to take these reforms forward but we want to do it in a collaborative way.  We look forward to working with you to make sure the new system works for everyone. 

 We have also recently published two documents relating to the Act:

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