Planning Services
Local Planning
Local Planning is the part of the Planning Service which is responsible for planning
policy.
The specific responsibilities of the Local Planning Service include:
- Production and review of statutory development plans (South Ayrshire Local
Development Plan)
- Production and review of statutory and non-statutory Supplementary Planning Guidance;
- Advising service customers and Development Management on implementation of Council
planning policies (pre-application discussions and planning consultations on development
proposals);
- Producing policy and advising on implementation of delivery of affordable housing
through the planning system;
- Preparation of master plans and development briefs;
- Advising on development proposals requiring environmental assessments
- Collection, analysis and presentation of demographic and other land use information
(including information on population and households, much of it related to the Census 2001; as well as housing
land supply, industrial land supply, vacant and derelict land, town centres).
Modernisation of the planning system
The Local
Development Plan (LDP) is the new strategic land use document that, when
complete, will replace the South Ayrshire Local Plan and the Ayrshire Joint Structure
Plan as part of the wider modernisation of planning. It will set out strategic spatial
priorities and policies for South Ayrshire and will secure land zoning for specified
uses (e.g. land for housing/industry etc.) to provide increased certainty for development.
The preparation of the LDP will take place over the next 5 years and it is intended
that it will be adopted in 2013.
A number of documents will be produced as part of the process of preparing the LDP.
Each of these documents will appear on this section of the website as and when we
publish them.
View the Development Plan Scheme document.
South Ayrshire Local Plan
The South Ayrshire Local Plan (SALP) was adopted on April 6th 2007, in accordance
with the town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 (www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/). It sets out the policies,
proposals and recommendations for the development and other use of land, the protection
of environmental resources and for the management of transport and traffic within
an identified administrative area. In effect, the SALP is the primary document against
which all planning applications within South Ayrshire will be assessed. Together
the SALP and the
Ayrshire Joint Structure Plan make up the Development Plan for the area.
The South Ayrshire Local Plan comprises of:
- Ayr Town Centre Strategy
- Newton Strategy
- Heathfield Strategy
- Forestry Strategy
- Wildlife Strategy
- Coastal Strategy
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