Local development planning - regulations and guidance consultation: part C - local development planning - draft guidance

Part C of the local development planning - regulations and guidance consultation sets out: (1) the overall aims and expectations for new style LDPs; (2) the process of how to achieve a new style plans; (3) and detailed thematic guidance on how new style plans are to implement policies in NPF4.


Annex A – Examples of Place-Based Plans

General Principles

LDPs are expected to be place-based, visual plans. Pages 26 and 27 of the best practice guide Designing for a Changing Climate: Planning Reform by Architecture & Design Scotland outline general principles for content and graphic communication for development plans.

Examples of Place-Based Plans

The plans below are examples of the graphic form that LDPs could take. It is the illustrative, place-based content that is highlighted as good practice, the content of the plan will be a matter for each planning authority to determine of their own accord, in line with the guidance in full.

The Highland Council
Visual example of Place-Based Plans
Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Authority
Visual example of Place-Based Plans
North Ayrshire Council
Visual example of Place-Based Plans
Aberdeen City
Visual example of Place-Based Plans
City of Edinburgh
Visual example of Place-Based Plans
Moray Council
Visual example of Place-Based Plans
Argyll & Bute Council
Visual example of Place-Based Plans
Glasgow City Council
Visual example of Place-Based Plans
West Dunbartonshire Council
Visual example of Place-Based Plans
Tower Hamlets Council
Visual example of Place-Based Plans

Contact

Email: LDPRegsandGuidance@gov.scot

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