Planning and Architecture

  • Planning Delivery Advice: Housing and Infrastructure

    17th February 2016 by

    Purpose of the Advice On 17 February 2016 we published Draft Planning Delivery Advice on Housing and Infrastructure. The main purpose of the advice is to assist in the preparation of development plans by helping to provide clarity on how housing and infrastructure requirements can be clearly identified and programmed for delivery. The advice builds…

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  • Independent Planning Review Online Discussion Forum

    4th February 2016 by

    UPDATE: Due to an enthusiastic response the online forum will now remain open until midday on 29th February. Thank you for all your contributions so far. Haven’t posted yet? Sign up today and make your views heard. Having your say As part of the on-going review of planning, the independent panel launched a call for…

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  • Improved ePlanning portal launches

    13th January 2016 by

    A new eplanning system, launched January 13. 2016, will save applicants and local authorities almost £6m a year. The revamped version of ePlanning Scotland – now ePlanning.scot – lets individuals, architects and agents submit and manage planning applications online, saving millions. The upgrade will help secure the long term future of the service and enable…

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  • Supplementary Guidance on Wind Energy – good example guidance.

    11th January 2016 by

    The Scottish Government were recently issued with a Notice of Intention to Adopt Supplementary Guidance on Wind Energy for South Ayrshire. We were impressed with the content and format of the document and its compliance with national policy, guidance and advice. As such we believe this Supplementary Guidance  to be a good example of how…

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  • Lessons learned from the Aussie housing challenge.

    14th December 2015 by

    Ian Gilzean is Chief Architect within Planning & Architecture Division. In December last year Ian flew out to begin a three-month secondment with Melbourne University and guest blogs to share his experience of working in Australia. In the past 18 months Planning and Architecture Division has seen a great deal of collaboration with the city…

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  • Place standard Launch

    10th December 2015 by

    The new Place Standard tool for Scotland was launched today. Designed to support communities, public, private and third sectors, to work efficiently together, the Place Standard provides a framework to assess the quality of a place. Place Standard has been tested with stakeholders and piloted in communities across Scotland in 2015 and has been developed…

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  • Planning Delivery Advice – Housing and Infrastructure

    1st December 2015 by

    Feedback on Stakeholder Workshops In June 2015 Alex Neil MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Communities and Pensioners’ Rights, announced that new advice to improve planning for infrastructure and housing would be published towards the end of the year. http://news.scotland.gov.uk/News/Scottish-Government-signals-planning-modernisation-19c7.aspx The purpose of the advice is to support the more effective delivery of housing and…

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  • Scottish Coal Task Force

    17th November 2015 by

    Surface coal mining is a significant and extensive land use across Scottish coalfields which extend from Fife in the east across the Lothians, North and South Lanarkshire to East Ayrshire in the south west. In 2013 when Scottish Coal and ATH folded, it soon became clear that there was insufficient bond money to restore many…

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