Local Plan

The Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park Local Plan and its supporting documents guide planning decisions, making sure that new development is of the highest quality, is in the right places and delivers the aspirations of communities and aims of the National Park.

As the Planning Authority for the Park area, the National Park Authority has a statutory duty to prepare a Local Development Plan containing policy and guidance which directs future development and use of land. The Local Development Plan also has to be set in the context of achieving the National Park’s four statutory aims and delivering the relevant outcomes in the National Park Plan.

As we started developing our Local Plan before enactment of the Planning etc (2006) Act through the Town & Country Planning (Development Planning) (Scotland) Regulations 2008, we prepared a Local Plan through transitional arrangements. We will replace the Local Plan with a Local Development Plan; details are included in our Development Plan Scheme.

The Adopted Local Plan replaces all previous Local Plans and with the relevant structure plans forms the Development Plan for the National Park area. The structure plans include:

Glasgow and Clyde Valley (Approved 2000, Fourth Alteration 2008),
Clackmannanshire and Stirling (Approved 2002,Second Alteration 2004)
Argyll and Bute (Approved 2002),
Perth and Kinross, (Approved 2003)

This section contains the Adopted Local Plan and all associated documents. Please click on the menu on the left to find the information you are looking for.

The Supplementary Planning Guidance page contains a series of accompanying documents to the Local Plan.

The Development Plan Scheme page gives details of how we will deliver our Adopted Local Plan and how we will prepare our coming Local Development Plan.

On this page you will find the most up to date information such as recent publications and consultations with regards to the Local Plan and supporting documents. This page will be updated regularly.

Updates

10th May 2012 - Housing in the National Park - Update

A report has been submitted to the Planning and Access Committe for their meeting on 14th May 2012 to provide an update on work undertaken to support the delivery of affordable housing within the National Park as set out in the Adopted Local Plan. You can read the full report and see other items to be discussed at the meeting by visiting the Planning and Access Committee webpage.

25th April 2012 - Sustainability Checklist for Planning Applications

The Sustainability Checklist is now required to be filled as part as any detailed planning application. If you are submitting your application online, there is a Microsoft Word version which you can fill in electronically and submit as “supporting information”. The Sustainability Checklist can be downloaded here.

28 March 2012 - Draft Housing Land Audit and Draft Employment Land Audit Consultation

The Authority is currently consulting with landowners and stakeholders on the above two audits. Details of each of the audits can be found on the current consultations section of the website.

28 March 2012 - SEA Post Adoption Statement Published

Following the adoption of the Park Authority's first Local Plan, a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Post Adoption Statement has been published. This can be found on the Adopted Local Plan section of the website.

21^st March 2012 – Sustainable Design SPG & Draft SPG for Development and Flood Risk in Callander

Following the Planning and Access Committee on Monday 12^th March, the SPG for Sustainable Design which includes the Sustainability Checklist has been formally adopted. The documents will now be amended as approved by the committee then published on this site as soon as possible. The committee also gave approval for the publication of the Draft Development and Flood Risk in Callander SPG. The draft SPG will now go through a consultation process with further details to follow over the coming months.

2 March 2012 - Planning & Access Committee

The agenda for the Planning & Access Committee has been published on our website. Some of the items being considered at the meeting on 12 March include the Adoption of the Supplementary Guidance (SPG) on Sustainable Design and the Sustainability Checklist. Approval is also being sought to issue a Draft SPG for Development and Flood Risk in Callander. The full agenda along with all the reports and appendices can be found here.