Supplementary Planning Guidance

The following supplementary planning guidance is available to download. These guides contain policies which complement Structure and Local Planning Policies.

Affordable Housing (approved March 2007)

Biodiversity (approved December 2005)

Contaminated Land Inspection Strategy (approved September 2001)

Developer Contributions (approved April 2007 - updated April 2009)

Designing out Crime in the Scottish Borders (approved August 2007)

New Housing in the Borders Countryside (approved December 2008)

Interim Housing Policy (approved June 2005)

Landscape and Development (approved March 2008)

Local Biodiversity Action Plan (launched June 2001)

Placemaking & Design (launched January 2010)

Planning Briefs

Privacy and sunlight guide (approved July 2006)

Renewable Energy (approved March 2007)

Replacement Windows (approved August 2008)

Scottish Borders Woodland Strategy (approved November 2005)

Shopfronts and shop signage (approved 1991)

Smoking Shelters and Awnings (approved August 2006)

Snack Bar Operations Guidance Booklet (Please note that the sections of this note not referring to the Planning position of such developments may be out of date).

Trees and Development (approved March 2008)

Use of Timber in Sustainable Construction (approved May 2009)

Visibility mapping for windfarm development (approved October 2003)

SPG Documents for Consultation

Provision for Play Areas - Draft (consultation closed 09/01/2009)

Covering Letter for Provision for Play Areas

Green Space - (consultation closed 09/07/09)

Covering Letter for Green Space

Gardens & Designed Landscapes (consultation closed 26/02/2010)

Covering letter for Gardens & Designed Landscapes

Covering letter for Gardens & Designed Landscapes (dated 20/11/2009) - Following further discussion and correspondence on the SPG the consultation period had been extended and closed on 26/02/10

Countryside Around Towns (consultation closed 8/2/10)

Covering letter for Countryside Around Towns

Planning Brief Documents for Consultation

Planning Briefs

Development Framework Documents for Consultation

Newtown St Boswells Development Framework (consultation closed on 11/12/2009)