Planning Applications (Scottish Ministers)

Part of the debate – in the Scottish Parliament at on 30 September 2021.

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Photo of Miles Briggs Miles Briggs Conservative

We know that national planning framework 4 will give ministers additional powers over local planning. Council leaders, including those from the First Minister’s own party, have voiced real concerns about the impacts of the Government’s proposals regarding the centralisation of services and further loss of local accountability and decision making. Those include concerns about alcohol and drug partnerships and children’s services being swept up in proposals for a centralised system.

I ask a very simple question of the First Minister. By the end of this session, will councils have fewer or more powers?