Question reference: S5W-30141
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 22 June 2020
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Current status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 7 July 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, in the context of national park authority planning regulations, whether a development proposal that is not within the current local development plan should be withheld from any consideration by planners until the consultation begins on the next local development plan.
Answer
The answer to S5W-30141 refers to the determination of planning applications.
Scottish Planning Policy (SPP, 2014) sets out policies which reflect Scottish Ministers’ priorities for the operation of the planning system and is a material consideration in the determination of planning applications. Paragraph 34 states that:
“Where a plan is under review, it may be appropriate in some circumstances to consider whether granting planning permission would prejudice the emerging plan. Such circumstances are only likely to apply where the development proposed is so substantial, or its cumulative effect would be so significant, that to grant permission would undermine the plan-making process by pre-determining decisions about the scale, location or phasing of new developments that are central to the emerging plan. Prematurity will be more relevant as a consideration the closer the plan is to adoption or approval.”