Planning for Great Places - Service Statement
Connecting people, nature and development.
Connecting people, nature and development.
Our planning services put nature at the heart of Scotland’s green recovery. We engage with the planning system to help deliver the right development in the right place. We support the use of nature based solutions to help tackle economic, environmental and social challenges; and mitigate and adapt to climate change.
We provide advice on incorporating natural infrastructure into development, helping to create sustainable places that secure multiple benefits to people, business and nature. In partnership with the other key agencies and stakeholders, we will work collaboratively to demonstrate how nature can support good development and help make successful, high-quality places where people can thrive.
Our services aim to provide clarity for investment and help businesses maximise the contribution that nature makes to a wellbeing economy.
This Service Statement explains how we work with others to:
Our standing advice, guidance, webinars and training aim to help developers and planners identify good sites and designs that minimise the impacts on nature and maximise the benefits that nature can provide.
Our guidance helps planners and developers to secure positive outcomes for nature, landscapes and people. Understanding how a development may impact on nature, and the opportunities that nature offers, enables the design of good developments that are located in the right places.
Creating opportunities to share good practice by taking part in live engagement and discussion on-line
We support Universities, colleges and professional development to deliver the next generation of developers and planners.
By working in partnership with businesses and other agencies and regulators, we aim to support sector investment strategies, City Deal and other regional economic partnerships deliver the green recovery and a long term wellbeing economy based on a healthy natural environment.
For this we:
We want to help the planning system become the cornerstone of Scotland’s nature-rich future and provide greater certainty for investment. We support a plan-led approach that integrates development with natural infrastructure and uses nature-based solutions to help tackle environmental and social challenges.
In partnership with planners, key agencies, communities, developers and other business sectors, we are:
We provide advice to planners, developers and other interests to help achieve the right development in the right place. We use the Scottish Regulators’ Strategic Code of Practice to make sure our advice is:
Our planning role and consulting us
When to consult NatureScot: Checklist
Our response timescales
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