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Planning guidance

  • Designing out crime in the Scottish Borders

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  • Landscape and development

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  • Local biodiversity action plan

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  • New housing in the Borders countryside

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  • Placemaking and design

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  • Biodiversity

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  • Contaminated land inspection strategy

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  • Privacy and sunlight guide

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  • Shop fronts and signage

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  • Smoking shelters and awnings

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  • Trees and development

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  • Timber in sustainable construction

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  • Visibility mapping for windfarm development

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  • Renewable energy

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  • Affordable housing

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  • Waste management SPG 2024

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