The provision of land for housing is a key consideration in the preparation of development plans. Scottish Planning Policy (SPP) 3: Planning for Housing sets out the role of the planning system in providing new housing.

This Planning Advice Note (PAN) updates and supersedes the advice on good practice in the assessment of housing land requirements contained in PAN 38 (Revised) Structure Plans: Housing Land Requirements published in 1996. Its purpose is to promote greater consistency and transparency in method. It also seeks to encourage the public and private sectors to develop a more consensual long-term view of housing land provision and work together in determining both the scale of the requirement for new housing and the location of future housing development. The advice will have particular relevance to planning authorities where housing markets are buoyant.

Scottish Executive Planning Directorate
Susan Stirling (Principal Planner), tel. +44 131 2447551

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