Local Government and Communities Committee

Meeting date: Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Official Report 489KB pdf

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Subordinate Legislation

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Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications) (Scotland) Amendment (No 3) Regulations 2017 (SSI 2017/187)

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Building (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 (SSI 2017/188)

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Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2017 (SSI 2017/189)

Good morning and welcome to the 19th meeting of the Local Government and Communities Committee in 2017. I remind everyone to turn off mobile phones. As meeting papers are provided in digital format, tablets may be used by members during the meeting. We have received one apology today, as Kenneth Gibson MSP cannot be with us this morning.

We intend to deal with agenda item 2 first, and we will turn to agenda item 1 after that. Agenda item 2 concerns subordinate legislation. The committee will consider SSI 2017/187, SSI 2017/188 and SSI 2017/189. These instruments are laid under the negative procedure, which means that the provisions will come into force unless the Parliament votes to pass a motion to annul them.

The Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered SSI 2017/187 and SSI 2017/189 at its meeting on 13 June 2017 and determined that it did not need to draw the attention of Parliament to the instruments on any grounds within its remit.

As set out in the paper, the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee considered SSI 2017/188 at its meeting yesterday, following correspondence between the committee and the Scottish Government in relation to drafting errors in the instrument. The Scottish Government intends to introduce an amending instrument, which the Delegated Powers and Law Reform Committee and this committee will consider. That said, no motions to annul have been laid.

I invite members to comment on any of the instruments.

I want to make a comment on SSI 2017/188. The instrument includes provisions to enable the building of recreational huts in the countryside, which is a campaign that has been running for a few years. It is very welcome to see the statutory framework for that finally completing its journey.

Thank you for putting that on the record. As no other members have comments to make on the statutory instruments, I invite the committee to agree that it does not wish to make any recommendations in relation to any of these instruments. Are we agreed?

Members indicated agreement.

Thank you. That ends agenda item 2. We will suspend briefly.

10:08 Meeting suspended.  

10:10 On resuming—