Preparation of local place plans
(1) A community body may prepare a local place plan.
(2) A local place plan is a proposal as to the development or use of land.
(3) It may also identify land and buildings that the community body considers to be of particular significance to the local area.
(4) In preparing a local place plan, a community body must—
(a) have regard to—
(i) the local development plan for the land, or any part of the land, to which the local place plan relates,
(ii) the National Planning Framework,
(iii) such other matters (if any) as are prescribed,
(b) set out reasons for considering that the local development plan should be amended, and
(c) comply with any prescribed requirements as to—
(i) the form and content of the plan, and
(ii) steps which must be taken before preparing the plan.
Submission of local place plans
(1) A community body must comply with any prescribed requirements as to—
(a) steps which must be taken before submitting a local place plan,
(b) how the views of councillors for the area to which the local place plan relates are to be taken into account in the preparation of the local place plan, and
(c) information which must be submitted alongside a local place plan.
(2) Having complied with any requirements under sub-paragraph (1), a community body may submit a local place plan to the planning authority for the district to which the plan relates.
Register of local place plans
(1) Every planning authority must keep a register of local place plans.
(2) When a valid local place plan relating to their district is submitted to them by a community body, a planning authority must—
(a) include it in their register, and
(b) inform the community body that submitted the plan that it has been registered.
(3) If a planning authority decide not to register a local place plan on the basis that it is not valid, the authority must give their reasons for reaching that view to the community body that submitted the plan.
(4) A local place plan is valid, for the purpose of this paragraph, if the requirements under paragraphs 1(4) and 2(1) have been complied with in relation to it.
(5) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make provision about—
(a) the manner in which a register must be—
(i) kept, and
(ii) made available to the public,
(b) the information about a local place plan that must be included in a register,
(c) when a planning authority may, or must, remove a local place plan from their register, causing it to cease to be a registered local place plan.
Every planning authority must make publicly available, in the manner prescribed, a map of their district that shows the land to which the local place plans in their register of local place plans relate.
Meaning of “community body”
In this schedule, “ community body ” means—
(a) a community-controlled body within the definition given in section 19 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015, or
(b) a community council established in accordance with Part 4 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.
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