Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01748 · Session 5

Provide protection for small communities in Scottish planning policy

Closed Submitted 5 Aug 2019 Housing & Planning
Signatures
0
125 online signatures with a country
Comments
14
Considered
3 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to provide specific provision within the National Planning Framework 3 (NPF 3) and the Scottish Planning Policy for small communities which:
• Provides for a pre-development community asset and infrastructure audit when an area is identified as being able to accommodate large-scale, urban growth and;
• Protects areas considered by its community to be high value scenic assets and at risk of the coalescence of communities.

What the petitioner did first

Raised issues with council representatives and local MSP.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 10 Oct 2019
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    2 mentions
  2. 26 Aug 2020
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  3. 19 Apr 2022
    Meeting of the Parliament
    National Planning Framework 4
    1 mention

Signatures by country

125 online signatures
  1. Scotland117 93.6%
  2. United Kingdom6 4.8%
  3. England1 0.8%
  4. United States1 0.8%

Comments

14 comments, oldest first
  1. John Kelly 5 Aug 2019
    The lack of infrastructure to take traffic away from the village is non existent. Amenities have been terrible for over 15 years
  2. Catherine McGinty 5 Aug 2019
    Roads in Gartcosh cannot cope with the amount of cars from all the new houses. Infrastructure is nil.
  3. Alan McManus 7 Aug 2019
    The few natural amenities in this area need protection, such as locks and golf course.
  4. Carol Donachie 7 Aug 2019
    The amount of development taking place in Gartcosh is shocking. I no longer visit The Loch Tearoom because of the level of traffic
  5. Jamie Harper 7 Aug 2019
    There are too many estates springing up with little thought for local amenities or infrastructure. The environment it under severe pressure and us being compromised by corporate greed.
  6. Donna Quinn 7 Aug 2019
    Community voice been lost amongst large scale developments. No infrastructure to support the number of house builds and it's the local people who are being affected and having to live with the daily effects of this, with no voice what so ever on the matter.
  7. Sandra Campbell 7 Aug 2019
    Vast amount of new housing in my part of North Lanarkshire but no new amenities. Hard to get G.P. appointment and grandchildrens school overflowing.
  8. Vanda Clelland 7 Aug 2019
    Too many homes being built without facilities in place to suit the growing villages.
  9. Mark McQue 7 Aug 2019
    Please start to listen to our smaller communities
  10. Nicola Howat 8 Aug 2019
    Roads and surround facilities are unsuitable for any further development and the disruption to existing residents is never considered as a significant factor
  11. peter waters 16 Aug 2019
    Centralisation and main town hubs are destroying long established towns and villages.
  12. Gillian Cameron 20 Aug 2019
    Keep the natural environment.
  13. Lauren walker 20 Aug 2019
    Provide protection for small communities
  14. Christine Macdonald 3 Sep 2019
    Schools should be considered first, before building thousands of new family homes. Our schools cannot cope.