These Regulations make provision in connection with the preparation of local place plans under schedule 19 of the Town and Country (Scotland) Act 1997 (“the Act”) as introduced by section 14 of the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019.

Regulation 2 provides that a community body in preparing a local place plan must have regard to any locality plan published for the area to which the local place plan is to relate. Regulation 3 sets out matters, including a map or maps, which a local place plan is to contain.

Regulation 4 sets out steps that must be taken by the community body preparing a local place plan before the local place plan is submitted to the planning authority. Regulation 5 sets out the information which must be submitted to the planning authority with the local place plan.

Regulation 6 makes provisions for the manner in which the register of local place plans is to be kept and made available for inspection. Regulation 7 sets out the circumstances when a local place plan must be removed from the register. Regulation 8 sets out how the planning authority are to make available for inspection a map of their district that shows the land to which registered local place plans relate.