Local people to be at the heart of planning

The Scottish Government has produced draft proposals for changes to the planning system in a consultation entitled ‘Places, People and Planning.’

The deadline for comments is the 4th April. Click on the following link to read a summary of the proposals: Places People and Planning

The Conservation Society in collaboration with Haddington and District Amenity Society (HADAS) is lobbying MSPs and councillors so that they might be able to influence the content of an emerging Planning Bill.

As a consequence, the Conversation Society has produced a list of proposals in the consultation which it considers to be essential, together with a list of things that it considers are missing, which it would like to see included: Planning consultation musts and missing