{"id":2858,"date":"2019-09-10T11:48:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T10:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/planning-architecture\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2019-09-10T11:48:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T10:48:20","slug":"national-planning-framework-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/planning-architecture\/2019\/09\/10\/national-planning-framework-team\/","title":{"rendered":"National Planning Framework Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">We are pleased to announce that our National Planning Framework team is set up and early work is commencing on NPF4.\u00a0 The NPF, highlighted as a major commitment in response to the climate emergency in the Government\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/binaries\/content\/documents\/govscot\/publications\/publication\/2019\/09\/protecting-scotlands-future-governments-programme-scotland-2019-20\/documents\/governments-programme-scotland-2019-20\/governments-programme-scotland-2019-20\/govscot%3Adocument\/governments-programme-scotland-2019-20.pdf\">2019-20 Programme for Scotland<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">, is a long-term spatial strategy for Scotland to 2050.\u00a0 It will bring together policies and programmes to enable sustainable and inclusive growth across the country.\u00a0 As a result of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019, the NPF will have enhanced status as part of the statutory development plan.\u00a0 It will guide spatial development, align with infrastructure investment, set out national planning policies, designate national developments and highlight regional spatial priorities.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Our core NPF4 team is led by Assistant Chief Planner Fiona Simpson who is supported by Suzanne Stephen, Graham Robinson, Simon Bonsall, Ian Mitchell and Eric Dawson.\u00a0\u00a0 You can email us at <a>scotplan@gov.scot<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">We look forward to working with a wide range of stakeholders on NPF4 and will provide further information on expected timescales and engagement opportunities shortly.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">We will communicate through our<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScotGovPlanning\"> ScotGovPlanning twitter account<\/a>, using #scotplan.\u00a0\u00a0 We will use twitter to alert you to any new information on our website, as well as blog articles and other information sources. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">You can also sign up the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/planning-architecture\/\">planning and architecture blog.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial Narrow',sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce that our National Planning Framework team is set up and early work is commencing on NPF4.\u00a0 The NPF, highlighted as a major commitment in response to the climate emergency in the Government\u2019s 2019-20 Programme for Scotland, is a long-term spatial strategy for Scotland to 2050.\u00a0 It will bring together policies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>National Planning Framework Team - Planning and Architecture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We are pleased to announce that our National Planning Framework team is set up and early work is commencing on NPF4. 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