LDP3 Development Plan Scheme
Perth and Kinross Council · 28 May 2025
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Our vision is a Perth and Kinross where everyone can live life well, free from poverty and inequality ___________________________________________________________________ Committee or Board: Economy and Infrastructure Committee Date of Meeting: 28 May 2025 Report Title: LDP3 Development Plan Scheme Report Number: 25/128 Report Author: Brenda Murray, Local Development Plan Team Leader Organisational Lead: Serge Merone, Strategic Lead – Economy, Development and Planning ___________________________________________________________________ 1. Purpose 1.1 This report seeks approval for the updated statutory Development Plan Scheme (DPS) which proposes a revised timetable for the preparation of the next Perth and Kinross Local Development Plan (LDP3). The last update was approved by the Economy and Infrastructure Committee on 21 October 2024 (report 24/284 refers). It also highlights the recent addendum prepared in relation to the LDP2 Delivery Programme for noting. 1.2 Sections 1. Purpose 2. Recommendations 3. Background/Context 4. Main Issues 5. Proposals 6 Conclusion 7. Impact and Value Assessment 8. Appendices 2. Recommendations It is recommended that the Committee: 2.1 agrees the updated Perth & Kinross Council Development Plan Scheme 2.2 authorises the Strategic Lead – Economy, Development and Planning to submit the Scheme to the Scottish Ministers;
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2.3 notes the publication of the addendum to the Delivery Programme for LDP2 3. Background/Context 3.1 A Development Plan Scheme is a document setting out a planning authority’s programme for preparing and reviewing their Local Development Plan (LDP). The Planning Authority is required to update its Development Plan Scheme at least annually. The last update was approved by the Economy and Infrastructure Committee on 21 October 2024 (report 24/284 refers). 3.2 Since publishing the Development Plan Scheme a significant milestone has been reached with the approval of the Evidence Report for LDP3 by Council in March of this year. Following approval, the Evidence Report was submitted to Scottish Ministers on 27 March 2025 for the Gate Check review and on 9 April 2025 Scottish Ministers appointed Stephen Hall BA(Hons) BPI MRTPI to consider whether the Evidence Report contains sufficient information to enable the Council to prepare LDP 3. 3.3 Following submission of the Evidence Report, it was considered prudent to revisit the timetable for the remainder of the plan preparation process. The timetable is a best estimate of when the various stages of the plan making process will be reached and, on that basis, is indicative and should be subject to regular review. The Development Plan Scheme must detail, by financial quarters, when various parts of the Local Development Plan will be produced, and if there are any changes to the timetable then those changes are legislatively required to be detailed in future Development Plan Schemes alongside the reasons why the timetable has been changed. 3.4 Stepping back to LDP2, and its Delivery Programme was last updated in February 2024. Since then, there has been a specific requirement from Scottish Ministers for delivery programmes to include the ‘sequencing of, and timescale for, the delivery of housing sites allocated in local development plans’ (Chief Planner Letter – June 2024). An addendum to the LDP2 Delivery Programme (Appendix 3) has therefore been prepared to establish a housing land pipeline for the delivery of housing sites allocated in LDP2. The addendum does not alter the content of the Delivery Programme but provides the existing information in a format prescribed by the Scottish Ministers. It is included within this report for noting purposes only. 4. Main Issues 4.1 On reviewing the timetable and considering the tasks to be undertaken during the following stages in the process, it is considered that more time is required to prepare the Proposed Plan, and that the following stages to adoption will be quicker than anticipated in the current Development Plan Scheme. 4.2 The overall timeframe as it currently stands in the Development Plan Scheme 2024 (Appendix 1 pages 4-5) remains unchanged with adoption of LDP3 late 2027.
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5. Proposals 5.1 There is a significant amount of work to be undertaken to prepare the Proposed Plan including: ‘Call for Sites’; Locality Profiles; Urban Capacity Study; Green Belt Review; identifying Nature Networks; site assessments; Transport Appraisal; identifying 20-minute neighbourhoods; developing local policy and place proposals; Strategic Environmental Assessment; and preparation of the Plans Delivery Programme. 5.2 Many of the tasks will require collaboration with stakeholders not just internally across Council Services to reflect the corporate role of the plan, but externally with key agencies, communities, infrastructure providers, the development industry and landowners. 5.3 By taking the time to encourage engagement and work collaboratively throughout plan preparation, this should deliver a plan which meets with greater consensus and fewer representations when published for consultation. The pathway for collaboration has already been established through the early engagement on the Evidence Report by way of the Big Place Conversation, Topic Paper Consultation and targeted engagement and this will be built upon throughout preparation of the Proposed Plan. 5.4 In addition, the assessment of the Evidence Report through the Gate Check process should reduce the level of debate arising at the Examination at the end of the plan preparation period. With this in mind, the timetable has been revised to allocate more time to preparing the Proposed Plan and less time for the period of examination to adoption. 5.4 The updated Development Plan Scheme in Appendix 2 (pages 4 & 5) shifts the balance of time across the LDP preparation timeframe to provide 21 months for Proposed Plan preparation (April 2025 - December 2026) and 12 months for the period of Proposed Plan consultation to adoption (January 2027 – December 2027), whilst still allowing some leeway for the current Scottish Government deadline of May 2028 for an up-to-date LDP being in place. 6 Conclusion 6.1 A review of the timetable for preparation of LDP3 has highlighted an imbalance in the timescales afforded to the remaining stages of plan preparation. The significant workload and requirement for collaborative preparation necessitates more time to be afforded to the Proposed Plan preparation and less to the later stages of Examination and Adoption. The date for adoption remains unchanged. 7. Impact and Value Assessment https://www.pkc.gov.uk/media/53944/LDP3-Development-Plan- Scheme/pdf/LDP3_Development_Plan_Scheme.pdf?m=1744812380233
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8. Appendices 8.1 Appendix 1 – Perth & Kinross Development Plan Scheme 2024 8.2 Appendix 2 – Perth & Kinross Development Plan Scheme 2025 8.3 Appendix 3 – Perth & Kinross Local Development Plan 2: Delivery Programme 2019-2029 Addendum: 31 March 2025 Housing Land Pipeline