National Planning Framework 4: final business and regulatory impact assessment

Appendix B: BRIA Questionnaire – list of recipients and copy of the questionnaire

List of Recipients of the BRIA Questionnaire

• Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland
• Association of Scottish Shellfish Growers
• Association of Town Centre Managers
• British Aggregates Association
• COSLA
• Culture Counts
• Federation of Small Businesses
• Heads of Planning Scotland (HOPS)
• Homes for Scotland
• Improvement Service
• Key Agencies Group (KAG)
• Minerals Product Association
• Renewable Energy Association
• Resource Management Association Scotland
• Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS)
• Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
• Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)
• Scottish Chambers of Commerce
• Scottish Council for Development and Industry
• Scottish Environment Link
• Scottish Environmental Services Association
• Scottish Federation of Housing Associations
• Scottish Futures Trust
• Scottish Grocers Federation
• Scotland's Improvement Districts
• Scottish Land and Estates
• Scottish Property Federation
• Scottish Renewables
• Scottish Retail Consortium
• Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation
• Scottish Tourism Alliance
• Scotland's Towns Partnership
• Scottish Whisky Association
• Westland Horticulture Limited

BRIA Questionnaire & Covering Information

Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment Questionnaire: National Planning Framework 4 / Local Development Plan Regulations and Guidance:

National Planning Framework 4

Scotland's fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4) will be a long term plan to 2045 that will guide spatial development, set out national planning policies, designate national developments and highlight regional spatial priorities.

Draft NPF4 was published on 10 November 2021 and comments are invited from all stakeholders by 31 March 2022. Further details about how to get involved in the consultation process along with additional supporting material can be found at www.transformingplanning.scot.

A Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA) will accompany the final draft NPF4 when it is presented to Parliament following consideration of the responses submitted to draft NPF4. The BRIA will consider the likely costs, benefits and risks that may be associated with the adoption of NPF4.

A Partial BRIA accompanied draft NPF4. This provides a very high level assessment of possible impacts. Our intention is to work closely with stakeholders to ensure that the final BRIA reflects their views.

Local Development Plan Regulations and Guidance

Local Development Plans (LDPs) set out how our local places will change in the future, including where development should and should not happen. They form part of the statutory 'development plan' and will, alongside the National Planning Framework, be the main basis for all decisions on planning applications. We want a new approach to preparing plans. Significant changes to development planning were made by the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019. To guide implementation of these changes we are consulting on proposed regulations and guidance for local development plans.

We also want to consider in greater detail any costs, benefits and risks that may be associated with these changes. A Partial BRIA accompanied the consultation paper.

Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment Questionnaire

The Partial BRIAs confirm that a questionnaire will be distributed primarily to the representative bodies of those industries most likely to be directly affected by the proposals in both the draft NPF4 and local development planning consultations. The questionnaire is attached below. We would like to invite you to participate in this process by completing the questionnaire and returning to us.

We would be grateful if you could forward the questionnaire to your member organisations so that they can consider whether any of the policy changes proposed are likely to have significant impacts, either individually or cumulatively, on their operations. In considering this, the focus should be on any changes that are being proposed to the existing policies set out in National Planning Framework 3, Scottish Planning Policy and the current development plan process, as amended by the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 2019.

If your members consider that these proposals are likely to result in additional costs, benefits or risks then we would appreciate them taking the time to complete the questionnaire so that their views can be considered and reflected in the final BRIA. It is useful to discuss responses in more detail so we are proposing a number of follow up interviews with individual businesses across the sectors likely to be impacted by these changes. The questionnaire should be used to confirm whether businesses would like to engage in this way.

I would be grateful if completed questionnaires could be returned via the scotplan@gov.scot mailbox by 31 March 2022.

An alternative approach for contributing to the BRIA process would be to:

• - respond to consultation Question 70 when completing a response to the draft NPF4 consultation process;

and/or

• - respond to consultation Question 2 when completing a response to the Local Development Planning Regulations and Guidance Consultation process.

Thanks for your help in this process.

Planning and Architecture Division
Scottish Government

January 2022

Name of Organisation

Questions

Sectorial information

Is there information available, or that you can provide, on the contribution that the sector in which you operate makes to the Scottish economy (production, employments, exports, GDP, etc.).

Specific proposals

Are there any changes proposed in the Draft NPF4 and the Local Development Planning Regulations and Guidance that you think will impose additional, or reduce existing, costs on your business or organisation?

Please also consider cumulative impacts if you consider relevant.

National Planning Framework 4:

Local Development Plan's:

Costs

Please provide details of all likely costs (additional and savings) associated with the proposals identified above including, where applicable, non-monetary costs.

National Planning Framework 4:

Local Development Plan's:

Benefits

What are the benefits associated with the proposals identified above?

National Planning Framework 4:

Local Development Plan's:

Impacts on competition

Are there any proposals that you think will have an impact on competition within the sector that you operate? This might include proposals that will directly or indirectly limit the number or range of suppliers or their ability to compete?

If yes, please provide further details:

National Planning Framework 4:

Local Development Plan's:

Impacts on consumers

Will the proposals limit or improve the choices available to consumers? This might include the quality, availability or price of any goods or services in a market or the provision of essential services, such as energy or water?

If yes, please provide further details:

National Planning Framework 4:

Local Development Plan's:

Other Comments

National Planning Framework 4:

Local Development Plan's:

Thank you for your comments. Would you be happy for the Scottish Government to contact you again to discuss your comments further?

If yes, please provide the following contact details:

Name:

e-mail address: