9 May 2023: Edinburgh City Council votes unanimously in favour of community rights of planning appeal.

Planning Democracy is celebrating the 4 May CEC decision to back community rights of planning appeal in a motion led by Cllr. Ross McKenzie.

Cllr. Cammy Day will now request of the Scottish Government's Planning Minister, Joe Fitzpatrick MSP, a review of the rights of appeal, along with a request for extension of the current time periods for the determination of applications in certain circumstances.

At the heart of the issue is a drive by Planning Democracy and other groups to ensure that the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 cements the right of communities to influence local planning authorities' development plans in the course of the preparation of their own local place plans. Access to a right of appeal, on a par with the facility presently open to developers as a matter of course, would dismantle the 'privileged position' developers enjoy in determining the shape of communities, it is argued.  

There is more on this story here: http://www.planningdemocracy.org.uk .

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