Planning (Scotland) Act 2019
PART 1
Development planning
Development planning
1
Purpose of planning
2
National Planning Framework
3
Open space strategy
4
Housing needs of older people and disabled people: parliamentary report
5
Strategic development: regional spatial strategies
6
Removal of requirement to prepare strategic development plans
7
Local development plans
8
List of persons seeking land for self-build housing
9
Supplementary guidance
10
Key agencies
11
Delivery programmes
12
Amendment of National Planning Framework and local development plans
13
Development plan
Local place plans
14
Local place plans
PART 2
Masterplan consent areas
15
Masterplan consent area schemes
16
Bar to creation of new simplified planning zones
PART 3
Development management
Meaning of “development”
17
Meaning of “development”: use of dwellinghouse for short-term holiday lets
Applications
18
Pre-application consultation
19
Assessment of health effects
20
Regulations about procedure for certain applications
21
Removal of requirement to recover costs before determining certain applications
22
Declining to determine an application
Notice by planning authority of certain applications made to them
23
Notice by planning authority of certain applications made to them
Assessment of environmental effects
24
Assessment of environmental effects
Conditional grant of planning permission: noise-sensitive developments
25
Conditional grant of planning permission: noise-sensitive developments
Conditional grant of planning permission: provision of toilet facilities within certain large developments
26
Conditional grant of planning permission: provision of toilet facilities within certain large developments
Delegation of development decisions
27
Delegation of development decisions
28
Schemes of delegation
Call-in of applications by Scottish Ministers: further provision
29
Call-in of applications by Scottish Ministers: further provision
Determination of applications: statement to accompany notification
30
Determination of applications: statement to accompany notification
Agreements relating to period before which an appeal may be made
31
Agreements relating to period before which an appeal may be made
Duration of planning permission
32
Duration of planning permission
33
Completion notices
Planning obligations
34
Planning obligations: financial agreements
35
Planning obligations: publication
36
Planning obligations: annual report
37
Planning obligations: modification or discharge
Declining to determine an application: further provision
38
Declining to determine an application: further provision
Development orders
39
Withdrawal of planning permission granted by development order
PART 4
Other matters
Promotion and use of mediation etc.
40
Promotion and use of mediation etc.
Charges and fees
41
Fees for planning applications etc.
Enforcement
42
Fines: increases and duty of court in determining amount
43
Liability for expenses under enforcement notice
44
Enforcement charters: statement on major developments
Training for taking planning decisions
45
Power to impose training requirements: planning authorities
Performance of planning authorities
46
Annual report by planning authorities on performance
47
National performance monitoring
Regulations
48
Regulations
Ministerial directions
49
Publication of directions
Chief planning officers
50
Chief planning officers
National Scenic Areas
51
National Scenic Areas
Notice by planning authority of applications for listed building consent
52
Notice by planning authority of applications for listed building consent
Forestry and woodland strategy
53
Forestry and woodland strategy
PART 5
Infrastructure levy
54
Power to provide for levy
55
Guidance
56
Interpretation of Part and schedule
57
Power to change meaning of “infrastructure”
58
Lapsing of power to provide for levy
PART 6
Final provisions
59
Ancillary provision
60
Power to replace descriptions with actual dates
61
Regulation-making powers
62
Minor and consequential amendments and repeals
63
Commencement
64
Short title
SCHEDULE 1
Infrastructure-levy regulations
General
1
In this schedule, “infrastructure-levy regulations” means regulations under section 54....
2
This schedule (apart from paragraphs 15(2) and 16) is without...
3
Infrastructure-levy regulations may make incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or...
4
Any provision which infrastructure-levy regulations may make may be made...
Who is liable for what
5
Infrastructure-levy regulations may set out— (a) the kinds of development...
Relief where relevant planning obligation
6
Infrastructure-levy regulations may make provision to grant relief from liability...
Local exemptions and discounts
7
Infrastructure-levy regulations may— (a) confer on local authorities the power...
Collection and enforcement
8
Infrastructure-levy regulations may— (a) make provision about the collection of—...
Financial penalty for late payment
9
(1) Infrastructure-levy regulations may allow, or require, local authorities to...
Stopping development
10
(1) Infrastructure-levy regulations may— (a) empower a local authority to...
Remission and repayment
11
Infrastructure-levy regulations may provide for the remission or repayment (with...
Appeals
12
Infrastructure-levy regulations may— (a) establish a process for appealing against...
Accounting requirements
13
(1) Infrastructure-levy regulations may make provision about the accounts that...
Expenditure of levy income
14
(1) Infrastructure-levy regulations may make provision about the particular purposes...
Use of planning and development powers
15
(1) Infrastructure-levy regulations may make provision about how any of...
Maximum penalties
16
(1) The maximum penalty that infrastructure-levy regulations can specify for...
SCHEDULE 2
Minor and consequential amendments and repeals
PART 1
Development planning
Removal of requirement to prepare strategic development plans
1
(1) The Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 is...
Local development plans
2
(1) The Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 is...
Delivery programmes
3
(1) The Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 is...
Development plan
4
(1) Schedule 1 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland)...
PART 2
Masterplan consent areas
Masterplan consent area schemes
5
(1) The Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 is...
PART 3
Development management
Duration of planning permission
6
(1) The Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 is...
Schemes of delegation and local review
7
(1) The Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 is...
Development orders
8
(1) The Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 is...
PART 4
Regulations
9
(1) The Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 is...

Planning (Scotland) Act 2019
2019 asp 13
An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision about how land is developed and used.
The Bill for this Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed by the Parliament on 20th June 2019 and received Royal Assent on 25th July 2019