RTPI Scotland

RTPI Scotland has formally responded to the Scottish Government’s call for ideas on its new National Planning Framework (NPF4), setting out 10 ‘Big Ideas’ to help guide its format, shape and content.

RTPI Scotland has called on the Scottish Government to ensure that the country’s National Transport Strategy supports ‘positive collaboration’ with spatial planning to meet its commitments to be zero-carbon by 2045.

RTPI Scotland has called for an ‘urgent debate’ about how planning departments are funded after it found the Planning (Scotland) Act could cost them up to £59 million over the next 10 years to undertake the duties it contains.

The suggested new national public health body in Scotland requires a more explicit connection with the planning system, RTPI Scotland has urged.