Planning advice provides best practice guidance on how to meet the requirements of the Local Development Plan and its associated supplementary guidance.
Review of advice is a continuous process and is refreshed as required. The list below represents the most up to date planning advice.
- Listed buildings and conservation areas
- Telecommunications developments (5/2018)
- Residential care homes (4/2018)
- Planning and contaminated land (3/2018)
- Hot food takeaways (2/2018)
- Advertising in the rural area (1/2018)
- Householder development (1/2016)
- Biodiversity: a developer's guide
- Householder's guide to biodiversity
- River South Esk code of practice for developers
- River Tay code of practice for developers
- Tayside Bat Survey Requirements
Although the advice notes below require to be updated, they continue to provide useful information:
- Agricultural land to garden ground (No. 25)
- Backland housing development (No. 6)
- Dutch canopies / sunblinds (No. 8)
- Farm buildings (No. 1)
- Garages off/within communal parking areas (No. 16)
- Miscellaneous planning policies (No. 17)
- Repair to sandstone walls (No. 30)
- Residential caravan sites (No. 13)
- Running a business from a house
- Shop window security (No. 10)
- Shopfronts and signs in conservation areas (No. 2)
- Small housing sites (No. 14)
- The siting and landscaping of built development in the countryside (No. 21)
- The specification of landscaping proposals for development sites (No. 23)
- The survey of trees on development sites (No. 22)
- Window alterations (No. 9)
Technical guidance
- Strategic Landscape Capacity Assessment for Wind Energy in Angus
- Strategic Landscape Capacity Assessment for Solar Energy in Angus
Development briefs
Development briefs summarise our vision and requirements for the development of a particular site.
They are written to guide developers, and usually cover issues such as development density, linkages to surrounding areas, suitable uses on the site and any other planning obligations such as specific affordable housing requirements and the provision of open space and landscaping.