Whether, under National Planning Policy Guideline: NPPG 19 - radio telecommunications, a local authority is obliged to inform the Executive…

NPPG 19 does not in itselfplace an obligation on planning authorities to notify Scottish Ministers of aparticular planning application. Paragraph 69 does, however, refer to instanceswhere planning authorities are required to give such notification underplanning and other procedures.
In particular, the Town andCountry Planning (Notification of Applications) (Scotland) Direction1997, contained in Circular 4/1997
- Notification of PlanningApplications, requires planningauthorities to notify Scottish ministers of planning applications in which theauthority have an interest.
Specifically, planningauthorities are required to notify Scottish ministers of any planningapplication where they propose to grant planning permission for any development:
(a) in respect of which the authorityhas a financial interest, or
(b) which is to be locatedon land wholly or partly in its ownership or in which it has an interest;
in circumstances where:
(i) the proposed developmentdoes not accord with the adopted or approved local plan for the area or hasbeen the subject of a substantial body of objections; and
(ii) the Town and Country Planning(Development by Planning Authorities) (Scotland) Regulations 1981(a) do not apply to the proposeddevelopment.
Both NPPG 19 – RadioTelecommunications and Circular 4/1997 – Notification of PlanningApplications are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. numbers 15218 and 33972 respectively).