Question reference: S3W-09498
- Asked by: Keith Brown, MSP for Ochil, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 5 February 2008
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Current status: Answered by Linda Fabiani on 3 March 2008
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what principles it considers that Historic Scotland should apply in response to planning applications near sensitive historical sites.
Answer
Historic Scotland provides advice to local authorities on planning applications where the authority considers that the application will effect a scheduled monument or its setting, a Category A listed building or its setting or a site on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.
The principles it applies in these circumstances are the policies set out by Scottish Ministers within National Planning Policy Guidelines Note 5 (NPPG5): Planning and Archaeology, NPPG18: Planning and the Historic Environment, the Memorandum of Guidance and Scottish Historic Environment Policies. Advice given by Historic Scotland will therefore be based upon an interpretation of these policies as applied to the circumstances of the individual application.