RTPI Scotland

Gross expenditure on planning departments in Scotland has been cut by 42 per cent in real terms since 2009, according to RTPI Scotland, leaving them in a ‘precarious position’.

RTPI Scotland has exhorted the Scottish Government to review planning policy and practice to make sure that it has the 20-minute neighbourhood concept embedded in it.

The new National Planning Framework for Scotland must be deliverable and connected but also underpinned by action plans and clearly defined success metrics, insists RTPI Scotland.

The Scottish Government has been urged to introduce a moratorium on out-of-town development and to back the production of town and town centre plans to be co-produced with communities.