F1 Part 2 Development Plans

Development plan schemes and action programmesDevelopment plan schemes and delivery programmes

21F2Action programmesF2Delivery programmes

(1)

A strategic development planning authority who prepare a strategic development plan are to prepare an action programme for the plan.

(2)

A planning authority who prepare a local development plan are to prepare F3an action F3a delivery programme for the plan.

(3)

In preparing F4the action F4a delivery programme the authority in question are to seek the views of, and have regard to any views expressed by—

(a)

the key agencies, and

(b)

such persons as may be prescribed.

(4)

When an authority publish a proposed—

(a)

strategic development plan under section 10(1)(a), or

(b)

local development plan under section 18(1)(a),

they are to publish a proposed F5action F5delivery programme for the plan.

F6(4A)

It is the duty of the head of the planning authority's paid service (designated under section 4 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989) to prepare the proposed delivery programme.

(4B)

The planning authority must approve the proposed delivery programme before it is published.

(4C)

Section 56 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (arrangements for discharge of functions by local authorities) does not apply to the function of approving a proposed delivery programme.

(5)

It is the duty of a key agency to co-operate with the authority in question in the preparation of the authority's F7action F7 delivery programme or proposed F7action F7delivery programme.

(6)

F8An action F8A delivery programme is a document setting out how the authority in question propose to implement the plan to which it relates.

(7)

Regulations may make provision as to—

(a)

the form and content of, and

(b)

the procedures for preparing and adopting,

F9an action F9a delivery programme.

(8)

The authority are to adopt and publish the F10action F10delivery programme within 3 months after the date on which the plan to which it relates is constituted.

(9)

The authority must keep the F11action F11delivery programme under review and must update and re-publish it—

(a)

whenever required to do so by the Scottish Ministers, and

(b)

(subject to paragraph (a)) whenever they think it appropriate to do so but in any event within 2 years after last publishing (or re-publishing) it.

(10)

When they publish, or re-publish, F12an action F12a delivery programme, the authority are to—

(a)

send two copies of it to the Scottish Ministers, and

(b)

place a copy of it in each public library—

(i)

in the case of a strategic development planning authority, in the strategic development plan area, and

(ii)

in the case of a planning authority, in the part of the authority's district to which the local development plan in question relates,

and such publication, or re-publication, is to include by electronic means (as for example by means of the internet).