Strategic Development Plans Stephen Hall Directorate for the Built EnvironmentMay 2008.

Strategic Development PlansStephen Hall

Directorate for the Built Environment May 2008

Outline

• New Procedures• Principles• Content – Vision, Policies, Proposals,

Supplementary Guidance• Engagement• Retail Update

Development Plan Landscape

The Development Plan

Strategic Development Plans

Local Development Plans

Supplementary Guidance

Monitoring Statements

Development Plan Schemes (inc Participation Statements)

Action Programmes

Non-statutory Guidance

Unique characteristics and opportunities of the plan area

A realistic, distinctive and shared vision of how plan area should develop over long term

Sound evidence

The

Development

Plan

Leading change

Efficient delivery of the policies and proposals of the plan

A basis for predictable decision-making

Main PrinciplesKEY DRIVERS KEY OUTPUTS

SDP Workstreams

SDP Document

Engagement

Visioning/ Option Appraisal

Evidence-gathering

Content

Vision andstrategy

Policies

Proposals

Vision andstrategy

Policies

Proposals

Strategic Development Plans

LDP in SDPA area

Vision andstrategy

Policies

Proposals

LDP outside SDPA area

Vision

• Effective driver for spatial strategy• Specific to plan area• Realistic• Based on opportunities of the place and

aspirations of its people• Look at least 20 years ahead• Shared with key stakeholders and wider

public

SDP Policy Topics • Housing

• Economic development

• Shopping

• Infrastructure

• Areas to protect from development

• (Waste?)

• Others at SDPA’s discretion

SDP/ LDP split

SDPs should limit LDPs to options with similar impacts on:

a) Other planning authorities in the SDPA; and

b) Strategic infrastructure and greenspace networks

Policies and Proposals

What are SDP policies for?1. To guide preparation of LDPs2. Development management

National Policy• National Planning Framework, SPPs

Proposals

Supplementary Guidance

• Enhanced status – part of DP• Content – ‘connected’ to plan• Home for detailed policy• Not for emerging issues• Scrutiny by Scottish Ministers

Engagement

Inform

Consult

Involve

Plan Preparation Period

Next steps

Designate SDPAs - June 2008

Agree SDP area boundaries – Autumn 2008

Lay final regulations – Autumn 2008

Guidance on development planning – Autumn

2008

New system – January 2009?

Retail Update

• PAN on Town Centre and Retailing Methodologies

• Competition Commission Report on the Groceries Market

• Supermarket Summit

• Braehead