Development planning

Development plans are at the heart of planning activity. Ongoing planning reforms in the UK and Ireland and the raft of supporting guidance has resulted in significant changes to the development planning system. The current environment is extremely challenging and exciting for development planners, making communication critical. There are always examples of good practice, but it often takes too long for this to good practice to become standard practice.

Action List

These are spatial planning modules providing an easy to adopt set of steps to follow in implementing an action plan and offer guidance in the application of the subject knowledge.

• Business and Industry Planning
• Children and Young People
• Material Considerations
• Retail Impact Assessment

Knowledge Builder

Spatial planning modules which offer a detailed overview of the topic and references to further online and print based sources of topic specific information.

• Accessibility Appraisal
• Affordable Housing
• Area Action Plans
• Area Programmes
• Background to British Development Planning
• Business Improvement Districts (BIDs)
• Business Parks
• City Visioning
• Common Land
• Communications and PR in Planning
• Compact and Sustainable Cities
• Data Sources
• Developer Contributions
• Development and the Law
• Development Briefs
• Development Management and the Planning Hierarchy in Scotland
• Development Management in England and Wales
• Development Planning in Scotland
• Disability Access
• Draft Scottish Development Plan Examination Regulations 2007
• Draft Scottish Development Planning Regulations 2007
• Economics of Development
• Ecotourism
• Employment Land Study
• Funding Programmes and Grant Schemes to Encourage Economic Development
• Funding Programmes for Urban Regeneration
• General Permitted Development Order
• Home Zones
• Householder consents
• Housing Density
• Housing Need and Demand
• Housing Policy
• Implementation of Planning Permissions
• Infrastructure Planning
• Integrated Housing and Planning Strategies
• Local Area Agreements and Planning
• Local Development Frameworks
• Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs)
• Major Planning Applications in Northern Ireland
• Managing Communications with Public and Private Sector Stakeholders
• Managing Development Plan Inquiries
• Managing the Media
• Mixed Use Development
• National Infrastructure in Scotland
• National Planning Framework for Scotland
• National Planning Policy
• Online Consultations
• Online Plans
• Planning and Community Strategies
• Planning and Risk in England
• Planning Obligations
• Regional Plans
• Retail Development and Planning
• Simplified Planning Zones
• Spatial Planning
• Supplementary Planning Guidance/Docs
• Tourism
• Tourism Impact Assessment
• Town and City Centre Management
• Townscape
• Use Classes Order
• Village Planning