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Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 81 Cited in Amendments 147 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionScotland
Citation2006 asp 17
  • After Part 1 of the principal Act insert—
      (Part 1A) National Planning Framework
      (3A) National Planning Framework
    • “(1) There is to be a spatial plan for Scotland to be known as the “National Planning Framework”.
    • (2) The National Planning Framework is to set out in broad terms how the Scottish Ministers consider that the development and use of land could and should occur.
    • (3) The National Planning Framework must contain—
    • (a) a strategy for Scotland's spatial development, and
    • (b) a statement of what the Scottish Ministers consider to be priorities for that development.
    • There is to be a spatial plan for Scotland to be known as the “National Planning Framework”.The National Planning Framework is to set out in broad terms how the Scottish Ministers consider that the development and use of land could and should occur.a strategy for Scotland's spatial development, anda statement of what the Scottish Ministers consider to be priorities for that development.contain an account of such matters as the Scottish Ministers consider affect, or may come to affect, the development and use of land,a development and designate it, ora class of development and designate each development within that class,contain any other matter which the Scottish Ministers consider it appropriate to include.must contain a statement by the Scottish Ministers of their reasons for considering that there is a need for the national development in question, andmay contain a statement by the Scottish Ministers as regards other matters pertaining to that designation.prepare and publish the framework, andkeep it under review.to revise the framework, orto publish an explanation of why they have decided not to revise it.If the Scottish Ministers revise the framework, they are to publish it as revised.to revise the framework, orto publish an explanation of why they have decided not to revise it.The Scottish Ministers are to prepare and publish an account (in this Part referred to as their “participation statement”) of when consultation as regards the preparation or review of the framework is likely to take place and with whom and of its likely form and of the steps to be taken to involve the public at large in the preparation or review.are to lay the proposed National Planning Framework (or of the framework as proposed to be revised) before the Scottish Parliament, andare not to complete their preparation or revision of the framework until the period for Parliamentary consideration has expired.is dissolved, oris in recess for more than 4 days.In preparing or revising the framework, the Scottish Ministers are to have regard to any resolution or report of, or of any committee of, the Scottish Parliament made, during the period for Parliamentary consideration, as regards the proposed framework (or as the case may be the framework as proposed to be revised) .The

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