Subject specific planning policies: list

The following publications cover many areas of planning policy:

• Scottish Planning Policy
• National Planning Framework
• Getting the best from our land, a land use strategy for Scotland
• Creating Places

We group our policies on individual subjects into the following areas:

Sustainability

• implementation net economic benefit and planning guidance, draft advice
• Planning Reform, Next Steps
• Planning (etc.) Scotland Act 2006
• UK's shared framework for sustainable development
• sixth annual report on the operation of Section 72 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009

Tools for making better places

• Designing Streets
• Designing Safer Places (PAN 77)
• Green Infrastructure

Promoting town centres

• Town Centre Action Plan
• Town Centre Action Plan, one year on
• Town Centre Action Plan, two years on
• Town Centre Toolkit
• town centres Pinterest board
• National Review of Town Centres external advisory group report
• Improving Town Centres(PAN 59)
• Planning and Small Towns (PAN 52)
• Scotland's Town Partnership
• Development Trust Association Scotland
• Carnegie Institute test towns

Promoting rural development

• marine planning

Supporting business and employment

• Tourism Development Plan for Scotland
• A Guide to Development Viability

Enabling the delivery of new homes

• Housing (Scotland) Act 2001
• affordable housing and housing land audits (PAN 2/2010)
• housing quality (PAN 67)
• housing in the countryside (PAN 72)
• houses in multiple occupation, guidance on planning control and licensing
• new housing delivery, private rented sector
• housing and infrastructure, draft planning delivery advice

Valuing the historic environment

• historic environment policy
• Historic Environment Strategy for Scotland
• managing change in the historic environment
• planning and archaeology (PAN 2/2011)
• conservation area management (PAN 71)
• historic environment circular
• neighbouring planning authorities and the historic environment
• scottish historic environment database

Delivering heat and electricity

• onshore wind turbines
• wind farm developments on peat land
• hydro schemes
• woody biomass
• landfill gas
• energy from waste
• anaerobic digestion
• deep geothermal
• large photovoltaic arrays
• energy storage
• microgeneration
• planning and heat
• onshore wind, some questions answered
• public engagement for sub-20mw wind turbine proposals, good practice guidance
• 2020 routemap for renewable energy in Scotland
• summary paper on wind turbine publishing
• renewable heat action plan
• renewables infrastrucutre plan
• community renewable energy toolkit
• good practice principles for community benefits from onshore renewable energy developments
• blue seas, green energy
• electricity generation policy statement
• heat policy statement
• low carbon Scotland, meeting our emissions targets
• review of separation distances for onshore wind farms

Planning for zero waste

• planning and waste management advice
• EU revised waste framework directive
• Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2012
• a circular economic strategy for Scotland
• zero waste plan
• SEPA waste data sources
• waste sites capacity tool
• Scotland's waste discover data tool
• waste data reporting
• thermal treatment of waste guidelines
• waste capacity tables

Valuing the natural environment

• 2020 challenge for Scotland's biodiversity
• European landscape convention
• Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004
• Conservation (Natural Habitats etc) Regulations
• Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
• SNH wild land map

Maximising the benefits of green infrastructure

• planning and open space (PAN 65)
• Scotland's greenspace map
• Central Scotland Green Network
• open space audits and strategies
• Play Strategy for Scotland
• pinterest board on open space
• six qualities of successful spaces
• Green Infrastructure: Design and Placemaking

Promoting responsible extraction of resources

• Surface Coal Mine Restoration, Towards Better Regulation
• unconventional oil and gas, Chief Planner letter
• surface mineral workings (PAN 50)
• annex A (PAN 50)
• annex B (PAN 50)
• annex C (PAN 50)
• annex D (PAN 50)
• reclamation of surface mineral workings (PAN 64)
• environmental impact assessment,circular 3/2011
• safeguarding of aerodromes, technical sites and military explosive storage areas, circular 2/2003
• section 96 guidance on the statutory provisions and procdures, circular 34/1996
• Environmental Impact Assessment and Natural Habitats (Extraction of Minerals by Marine Dredging) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009
• electricity generation policy statement
• Management of Extractive Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2010
• 2012 Scottish Aggregates Survey report findings

Supporting aquaculture

• statutory land use planning system and marine planning and licensing, circular 1/2015
• marine planning
• Draft National Marine Plan
• renewed framework for Scottish aquaculture
• authorisation of marine fish farms in Scottish waters
• planning controls for marine fish farming, circular 1/2007

Managing flood risk and drainage

• advice on flood risk
• Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009
• SEPA flood maps
• guidance to planners on flooding
• delivering sustainable flood risk management
• surface water management planning guidance

Promoting sustainable transport and active travel

• National Transport Strategy
• Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009
• meeting emissions reduction targets, 2013 - 2027
• infrastructure investment plan 2011
• transport assessment guidance
• development planning and management transport appraisal guidance
• best practice in handling applications affectng trunk roads (PAN 66)
• design manual for roads and bridges
• Designing Streets
• Roads for All, good practice guide
• Cycling Action Plan for Scotland
• National Walking Strategy
• A More Active Scotland
• roadmap to widespread adoption of plug-in vehicles
• Tourism Development Framework for Scotland

Supporting digital connectivity

• Scotland's Digital Future
• Scotland's Digital Future, infrastructure action plan
• Scotland's Cities, delivering for Scotland
• national telehealth and telecare delivery plan for Scotland
• radio telecommunications (PAN 62)
• safeguarding of aerodromes, technical sites and military explosives storage sites (circular 2/2003)