We are preparing a new local development plan for Edinburgh called City Plan 2030.
In line with our Development Plan Scheme, the Proposed City Plan 2030 will be reported to Planning Committee on 29 September for elected members to decide on officer recommendations for the strategy, proposals and polices for future development in the City of Edinburgh Council area.
If approved the Proposed Plan will then go on to its next statutory stage and be published to allow representations to be made. Details of the representation period and the engagement programme for it will be published with the Committee papers in advance of the meeting.
You can find more information on the project, including the ‘Choices for City Plan’ public consultation, at www.edinburgh.gov.uk/cityplan2030.
You can keep up to date with the City Plan project by:
We are preparing a new Local Development Plan for Edinburgh called City Plan 2030. This will set out policies and proposals for development in Edinburgh through to 2030. City Plan 2030 will set out how we develop our city sustainably over the next ten years.
Choices for City Plan
Our main engagement stage ‘Choices for City Plan 2030’ took place between January and April 2020. We received over 1800 responses to the consultation from organisations, community groups and members of the public. The responses to Choices for City Plan 2030 were reported to Planning Committee on 12 August 2020. The full Choices for City Plan consultation responses are available to view on our website.
City Plan 2030
We are now preparing the proposed City Plan 2030. The timetable for preparing the plan and how you can get involved in the next stage of the process is set out in our new Development Plan Scheme.
As set out in the DPS, a proposed plan is now expected to be presented to committee in February/March 2020.
Following publication of the proposed plan, the next stage of the plan preparation process allows for comment on the proposed Plan, this is called the period of representations. Representations can be submitted to the proposed plan, either supporting or seeking change to the policies and proposals set out in the plan.
The impact of the current health emergency on the period of representations to the proposed plan is not known at this stage. It is not known if social distancing and/or lockdown measures will be still in place in 2021 to enable traditional, in person, engagement to go ahead.
However, if possible, some, or all, of the following activities will be used to raise awareness and encourage people to have their say on the proposed plan:
● Launch of proposed plan
● Publicity to raise awareness of proposed plan
● Statutory neighbour notification
● Notification to those groups and individuals on the project mailing list telling them how to comment
● Staffed exhibitions in public places to raise awareness, if possible
● Drop-in sessions to allow opportunity to find out more about consultation proposals, if possible;
● Best practice online/digital engagement (as guided by the Scottish Government’s digital planning programme) which could include virtual exhibitions, a planning engagement hub, webinars and online events, and
An update to the Development Plan Scheme will be provided at the time of publishing the proposed plan with the full details on how you can submit a representation to the proposed plan.
Non-digital engagement – including opportunities to ask informal questions, telephone surgeries, printed newsletters, hard copies of documents, paper letters and engagement via other council services.
In the meantime, you can keep up to date with the City Plan Project by
● subscribing to this blog
● following us on twitter at @planningedin
● joining in the conversation by using the #cityplan2030 hashtag.
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