Ft Wm, Inv & Tor CC talk:About

TODO list

This discussion page doubles as the main project page for this wiki.

Things to do include:

* Permissions
** Right now, you don't even have to log in to edit just about anything.
** The actual CCors should probably all be Admins, but not even EMD is yet.

* Visual Editor
** Only the MainPage seems to be WYSIWYGed

* Discussion (options are:-)
** (as is) ie WP-style Discussion pages
** Structured Discussions (see eg https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Structured_Discussions )
** PageDisqus - DQ embed per page (see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageDisqus )
** SectionDisqus - DQ embed per section (but has issue: see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SectionDisqus )

* Corpus
** LPPs
** FW2040 & LDP (& Locality Plan?)
** SCDC (why?)

* PARCA

LPP consultation question

Since 2019, local communities in Scotland have had the right to create a so-called 'Local Place Plan' for their area (eg a village, suburb or estate). Local Place Plans have to be "taken into account" by the planning authority (ie Highland Council, for Lochaber). However, the planning authority has the right to 'invalidate' (ie ignore) a Local Place Plan in certain circumstances; these are to be laid down in forthcoming planning regulations.

The Scottish Government is presently consulting on those forthcoming regulations. Many of the points at issue concern how Local Place Plans are to be prepared by so-called 'community bodies'. (The definition of a community body has already been laid down in law and is not part of the consultation.)

One possible view that ONLY deficiencies in the FINAL draft, including the process of producing that draft, should enable a planning authority to invalidate a Local Place Plan against the wishes of the community body that has prepared it. But a stricter view is that deficiencies in EARLIER drafts, including the process of producing those drafts, might rightly enable a planning authority to invalidate the FINAL draft of a Local Place Plan against the wishes of the community body that has prepared it.

Do you agree with the stricter view?

(A plausible example of a process deficiency might be this:- failing to actively seek the views of disabled or elderly residents at a sufficiently early stage in the preparation process to significantly influence the finalised Place Plan.)