G L A S G O W A N D T H E C LY D E VA L L E Y S T R AT E G I C D E V E L O P M E N T P L A N N I N G A U T H O R I T Y

GCVSDPAn e w s l e t t e r 

Spring 2010

The report argues that there would be a significant time lag between the current post-recession position and achieving the sustained growth levels outlined in the 2006 Structure Plan and that the recovery would be slow with muted new migration into the region in the medium term.

The main employment sectors remain business services, which includes real estate activities, legal and accounting, as well as health and distribution with financial services since 2005, becoming a higher concentration sector.

Some of the report’s other conclusions suggest that:

the economic outlook remains very uncertain heading into mid-2010. The pressures on consumers and the government will weigh heavily on overall prospects and offsetting any improvement in the corporate sector. The economic recovery will depend on the strength of the exports sector;

base projections suggest it will be perhaps a decade before employment levels return to their peak;

for Glasgow and the Clyde Valley prospects are perhaps more muted than they were pre-recession, all eyes will be on the areas export potential and pressures on consumer incomes and on public sector jobs will make the decade ahead feel very different to the decade past. That said the outlook remains broadly positive for urban locations with a predominance of service sector jobs likely over the medium term and in this regard Glasgow Clyde Valley’s prospects remain more positive than studying current conditions might lead one to conclude.

The findings of the report will be used to inform the Strategic Development Plan and engage with those with an interest in future economy of the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley city region area including Scottish Enterprise, Clyde Valley Community Planning Partnership and the Glasgow - Edinburgh Collaboration Initiative.

Challenging economic outlook for the Strategic Development Plan

In early 2010

the GCVSDPA

commissioned

Oxford Economics

to prepare a report to

assess the strategic

and economic

implications of the

recession on the

Scottish economy

and what that may

mean for the Glasgow

and the Clyde Valley

city region

Glasgow & Clyde Valley Strategic Development Plan Authority

Economic outlook and scenarios for the Glasgow and

Clyde Valley region Final Report

April 2010

Lagan House Sackville Street

Lisburn BT28 2GE

℡: 44 2892 660669 �: 44 2892 670895

In February the Scottish Government published its consolidated Scottish Planning Policy (SPP) document. The consolidated SPP provides a shorter, clearer and more focused statement of national planning policy. Twenty-one separate policy documents from the SPP, Planning Advice Note and National Planning Policy Guidance series have been replaced

by a single SPP as part of the Scottish Government’s commitment to proportionate and practical planning policies.

The SPP sets out:

the Scottish Government’s view of the purpose of planning;

the core principles for the operation of the system and the objectives for key parts of the system;

statutory guidance on sustainable development and planning under Section 3E of the Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006;

concise subject planning policies, including the implications for development planning and development management; and

the Scottish Government’s expectations of the intended outcomes of the planning system. Alongside policy on development plans, development management, community engagement, sustainable development, climate change and sustainable economic growth, the SPP sets out policy on economic development, town centres and retailing, housing, rural development, fish farming, coastal planning, historic environment, landscape and natural heritage, open space and recreation, green belts, transport, renewable energy, flooding and drainage, waste management, minerals, onshore oil and gas operations, surface coal mining and communications infrastructure.

The SPP will inform the policy background for the first Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Strategic Development Plan.

The SPP is available to download from

www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/300760/0093908.pdf

Consolidated Scottish Planning Policy published

Development Plan Scheme2010 update published

The Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Strategic Development Authority has published its updated Development Plan Scheme and Participation Statement for the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Strategic Development Plan. The purpose of the annually reviewed Development Plan Scheme is to set out the Authority’s programme for preparing, reviewing and consulting on its Strategic Development Plan.

Copies can be downloaded from the GCVSDPA website at www.gcvsdpa.gov.uk/downloads/DPS2010/DevelopmentPlanScheme_ParticipationStatement_March2010.pdf

or call 0141 229 7730.

Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Strategic Development PlanDevelopment Plan Scheme and Participation Statement

March 2010

SCOTTISHPLANNINGPOLICY

spp

The current priority of the Joint Committee is the publication of its first Main Issues Report in September 2010.

The Main Issues Report will seek to consider the impacts of the economic recession on the delivery of the Joint Committee’s Agenda for Sustained Growth, the increasing emphasis on promoting sustainable economic growth and development whilst incorporating climate change issues.

In addition river basin and flood risk management planning, health, promoting active travel and waste management will also shape the Joint Committee’s work.

Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Strategic Development Planning AuthorityLower Ground Floor, 125 West Regent Street, Glasgow G2 2SAtel  0141 229 7730  fax  0141 221 4518  email  info@gcvsdpa.gov.uk  web  www.gcvsdpa.gov.uk

A number of key meetings have been held during the first quarter of 2010 with key agencies and stakeholders as part of the process of developing the Strategic Development Plan.

These meetings have involved the retail and economic development sectors, the Scottish Government Directorate of the Built Environment and the Directorate of Planning and Environmental Appeals, SEPA, British Airports Authority, COLSA and Strathclyde Partnership for Transport.

In 2010 the GCVSDPA Joint Committee will convene on the following dates:

Monday 14 JuneInverclyde Council

Monday 13 SeptemberWest Dunbartonshire Council

Monday 13 DecemberSouth Lanarkshire Council

Key stakeholder meetings

Future work of the Joint Committee

Joint Committee dates

GCVSDPA Joint Committee

John DempseyEast Dunbartonshire

ConvenerGraham ScottSouth Lanarkshire

Vice ConvenerHarry CurranNorth Lanarkshire

Billy HendryEast Dunbartonshire

Barbara GrantEast Renfrewshire

Eddie PhillipsEast Renfrewshire

George RedmondGlasgow City

George RyanGlasgow City

Robert MoranInverclyde

David WilsonInverclyde

James CoyleNorth Lanarkshire

Iain NicolsonRenfrewshire

Chris ThompsonSouth Lanarkshire

Jim FinnWest Dunbartonshire

Gail CaseyWest Dunbartonshire

Jackie GreenRenfrewshire

JUNE

Monday