Current Local Development Plan Review Documents
Under the changes introduced by the Planning Etc. Scotland Act 2006 the Council's current Structure and Local Plan will eventually be replaced by a Local Development Plan prepared under the new legislation. The new legislation, when implemented, will allow supplementary guidance to be adopted and issued by a planning authority, which can be more easliy updated if required and therefore be more pro-active to changing circumstances.
The Council's Planning Service is currently in the initial stages of preparing the work programme to deliver the Local Development Plan, but has progressed a review of a number of topic areas ahead of this work programme broadly based on guidance currently being provided by the Scottish Government.
Reducing Carbon Emissions in New Development (September 2008)
Interim Planning Policy: Towards Sustainable Construction and Design February 2009