East Lothian Development Plan Scheme 2022/23

Overview

Planning legislation requires all Local Authorities to prepare a Development Plan Scheme (DPS). The DPS sets out the programme for preparing, reviewing and implementing the Local Development Plan and includes a Participation Statement.

The Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 introduced new requirements for the DPS including its content and how Local Authorities must engage on it. Under the 2019 Act and associated Regulations and Guidance, the DPS must  now:

• • State the planning authority’s timetable (specifying the proposed month) for its Evidence Report and its Proposed Local Development Plan; and
• • ensure that ‘the planning authority seek the views of the public at large as to the content of the Participation Statement’.

East Lothian Council’s DPS sets out our intended programme for the main stages in the preparation and review of the Local Development Plan, what will be involved, and how and when people and organisations can participate.

This draft Development Plan Scheme 14 has been prepared with an up to date timetable for the review of the Local Development Plan 2018, the preparation of an Evidence Report, and the Proposed Local Development Plan 2. It also includes a Participation Statement on how we plan to engage with interested parties at various stages. 

We are seeking your views primarily on the Participation Statement but welcome comments on the document as a whole.