Friday 27 June 2008
 Adaptation and Resilience to a Changing Climate
Green Infrastructure Design for Climate Adaptation and Resilience
The Joint Committee has recently agreed to participate as a stakeholder in a proposal submission entitled Green Infrastructure Design for Climate Adaptation and Resilience lead by the Centre for Urban Regional Ecology (CURE) to the Adaptation and Resilience to a Changing Climate (ARCC) programme, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC).
The overall aim of the proposal is to better understand critical interactions between the natural and built environment with a view to informing climate change adaptation via green infrastructure planning and design.
The outline project proposal was submitted on 26 June 2008 and the project partnership hopes to be invited over the summer of 2008 to submit a more detailed funding proposal in September 2008 with a final decision made on project funding through the ARCC programme in early 2009.
The Joint Committee's climate change webpage.
If you have any questions then please contact George Eckton who is the Strategic Planner with responsibility for the Joint Committee’s climate change work on 0141 229 7730.
Wednesday 25 June 2008
Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Strategic Development Planning Authority designated
The Statutory Order by the Scottish Ministers designating the eight local authorities of Glasgow and the Clyde Valley as a Strategic Development Planning Authority (SDPA) came into force on 25 June 2008.
The new Authority will be required to prepare and keep under review a Strategic Development Plan for the eight local authority areas of East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Glasgow City, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire.
The SDPA is one of four in Scotland covering the city regions around the four largest cities - Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh.
The strategic land-use planning role is performed currently by the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Structure Plan Joint Committee, who will now take on a new role as the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley SDPA.
One of the first tasks of the SDPA will be to propose boundaries for the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Strategic Development Plan.
This proposed boundary is required to be submitted to Scottish Ministers by 25 September 2008.
Tuesday 17 June 2008
Appeal against Scottish Ministers' decision to approve the 2006 Structure Plan
An Appeal has been lodged under Section 238 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 against the decision of Scottish Ministers, dated 25 April 2008, to approve the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Joint Structure Plan 2006 Alteration with modifications.
The Appeal has been lodged by Capital Shopping Centres PLC and relates to the refusal of Scottish Ministers to modify the Structure Plan so as to change the status of Braehead from an Out of Centre Retail Location to a Town Centre or failing that to Commercial Centre as defined by Scottish Planning Policy 8: Town Centres and Retailing.
The Appeal notice has been served upon both the Scottish Ministers and the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Structure Plan Joint Committee.
A timescale for the Appeal to be heard at the Court of Session has still to be set.
Details will be posted on the website when available.
The 2006 Structure Plan, other than that part which is subject to the Appeal, remains operative as from 29 April 2008.
Tuesday 3 June 2008
Waste Management Issues Report 2008 update
The Waste Management Issues Report was published by the Joint Committee on 20 March 2008 and comments on the issues raised were invited by 28 April 2008. The purpose of the Waste Management Issues Report was to enable the constituent authorities of the Joint Committee working with SEPA and the Scottish Government to identify the potential need and location for strategic waste management facilities to form an integrated system to serve the Glasgow and Clyde Valley area.
The Joint Committee distributed copies of the Waste Management Issues Report to a list of 50 stakeholders agreed in consultation with SEPA and the report was also made available for download via the Joint Committee’s website. The Structure Plan Manager received 6 responses (12%) to the consultation from stakeholders.
The responses will be the subject of a paper to the next Joint Committee meeting on 9 June 2008.
The paper is now available to download from this link.
The Joint Committee would like to thank all participants for their involvement.
Tuesday 3 June 2008
Town Centres and Retailing Issues Report 2007 update
The Town Centres and Retailing Issues Report was published by the Joint Committee on 1 October 2007 and comments were invited by 17 December 2007.
The purpose of the Issues Report was to enable the constituent authorities of the Joint Committee to consider the key issues relating to the development of town centres and retailing in the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley area. It is part of the Joint Committee’s early preparatory steps towards the inaugural Strategic Development Plan in 2011.
Following receipt by the Structure Plan Manager of 27 responses from stakeholders and a report to the Joint Committee summarising the responses in March 2008. A series of recommended responses to each issue identified by the Joint Committee in the original Issues Report 2007 is the subject of a paper to the next Joint Committee meeting on 9 June 2008.
The paper is now available to download from this link.
The Joint Committee would like to thank all participants for their involvement.
Friday 16 May 2008
Retail Focus Group presentations and note of the meeting
The Joint Committee would like to thank all those who participated in today’s Retail Focus Group.
The wide-ranging discussion and on-going engagement with the retail industry ahead of the publication of first
Strategic Development Plan in 2011 was greatly welcomed.
Copies of the two presentations given to the Retail Focus Group are available to download:
 Strategic Development Plans PowerPoint 5 MB Stephen Hall, Scottish Government:
Responses to Retail Issues Report PowerPoint 1.88 MB Stuart Tait, GCVSPJC
On-going discussions with the retail and town centres stakeholders are planned for the rest of the year.
Specific events will be advertised to the Retail Focus Group by email and on the Joint Committee’s website.
A note of the meeting has been prepared and is available to download below:
 Retail Focus Group 13 May 2008 Note of Meeting PDF 60 KB
Friday 25 April 2008
Scottish Ministers approve the 2006 Structure Plan
The final stages in the Scottish Ministers’ approval process of the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Structure Plan 2006 have now been reached.
The Scottish Ministers issued their Final Modifications to the Plan as of the 25 April 2008, with the Plan going operational on the 29 April 2008. Following that date, the final element is the Right of Appeal to the Court of Session, under Section 238 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997, within a period of six weeks from 29 April 2008.
That right can be exercised by anyone who questions the validity of the Scottish Ministers’ decision on the grounds that that decision is not within the powers conferred by the aforementioned Act or that any requirement of that Act or any Regulations made under that Act has not been complied with in the Approval of the Plan.
Copies of the Approval Letter and its Annexes are available here:
Approval Letter PDF 47 KB
Annex 1 Schedule of final modifications PDF 104 KB
Annex 2 Reasons for not making modifications PDF 62 KB
Copies can also be obtained from the Planning Offices of the eight constituent Councils of the Joint Committee -
East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Glasgow, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Lanarkshire
and West Dunbartonshire - or from the Scottish Government, Directorate for the Built Environment, Area 2-H, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh EH6 6QQ.
A revised version of the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Joint Structure Plan 2006 Written Statement is also available:
GCV Structure Plan 2006 Written Statement incorporating modifications PDF 1.47 MB
The Joint Committee is pleased that the final approval process has now been reached and is pleased that the Plan can now be used to foster the long-term regeneration and growth of the Glasgow metropolitan area in line with its Sustained Growth Agenda.
Monday 21 April 2008
Development Plan Scheme
Planning your future publication launch
Today the Joint Committee publishes an outline programme of upcoming work in its future role as the
Strategic Development Plan Authority for the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley area.
The leaflet aims to introduce the Strategic Development Plan process to stakeholders - particularly the public -
and asks for their opinions on the nature of consultation.
You can download the leaflet as a PDF document here:
Planning your future PDF 894 KB
The leaflet is also available at council offices, libraries, bus and train stations.
Background to the Joint Committee's engagement process can be found at www.gcvcore.gov.uk/engage
The Joint Committee looks forward to feedback from this initial phase of consultation and asks for resposes by the
end of August 2008.
Thursday 20 March 2008
Waste Management Issues Report 2008
The Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Structure Plan Joint Committee published the Waste Management Issues Report 2007 in October 2007.
The purpose of the report was to set out the key issues that relate to longer-term strategic waste management planning and their implications for future waste management facilities at a strategic level in light of the new requirement for the Strategic Development Plan (SDP).
The Joint Committee received a number of responses to the Waste Management Issues Report 2007, summarised here.
On 24 January 2008 the Rural Affairs and the Environment Cabinet Secretary Richard Lockhead's statement to the Scottish Parliament outlined the Scottish Government’s plans for a zero waste Scotland, which rejected the option of large-scale energy from waste infrastructure favouring instead revising the targets to increase recycling rates, reducing the use of landfill and retaining the challenging target of stopping growth in municipal waste by 2010.
As a consequence of this parliamentary statement it is considered that it would be beneficial to undertake another targeted round of consultation, posing questions relating to the implications of the new policy context. The Joint Committee has therefore published the Waste Management Issues Report 2008.
Copies of the Waste Management Issues Report 2008 can be downloaded here:
Waste Management Issues Report 2008 PDF 840 KB
Responses to this report are sought by Monday 28 April 2007.
If there are any questions please do not hesitate to contact George Eckton who is the Strategic Planner with responsibility for this study on 0141 229 7730.
Written comments should be sent to:
Dr Grahame Buchan
Structure Plan Manager
Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Structure Plan Joint Committee
Lower Ground Floor
125 West Regent Street
Glasgow
G2 2SA
or by email to waste.issues@gcvcore.gov.uk
Thursday 20 March 2008
FP7 Project C-RED
Carbon Emissions Reduction in Buildings and Built Environment
The Joint Committee has recently agreed to participate in a Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) project submission entitled Carbon Emissions Reduction in Buildings and Built Environment (C-RED) along with lead partners Glasgow City Council and Glasgow Caledonian University.
This support action project will see members of the project team supporting collaborative research and actions, whilst mentoring less developed regions by providing recommendations on policies, plans and actions for reducing carbon emissions in the built environment.
The twin aims of the C-RED project are:
- Increase regional contributions to the reduction of carbon emissions from buildings and built environment in Glasgow, Bari (Italy), Belgrade (Serbia), Novi Sad (Serbia), Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Turin / Piedmont (Italy).
- Maximise the benefits of research infrastructure for regional economic development.
Framework Programmes (FPs) have been the main financial tools through which the European Union supports research and development activities covering almost all scientific disciplines. FPs are proposed by the European Commission and adopted by Council and the European Parliament following a co-decision procedure. The overarching theme of FP7 is sustainable development.
The project proposal was submitted in March 2008 and the C-RED project partnership hopes to receive a decision regarding funding by summer 2008.
The Joint Committee, through the EU INTERREG IIIC InterMETREXPlus project, has already been able to undertake the first ever substantive analysis of greenhouse gas emissions across the metropolitan area and hopes that a successful submission to the EU INTERREG IVC programme for the EUCO2 project will have beneficial synergies with the C-RED project.
If you have any questions then please contact George Eckton who is the Strategic Planner with responsibility for this study on 0141 229 7730.
The Joint Committee's climate change webpage.
Details of the Joint Committee's work on climate change are available here.
For further information on Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) visit cordis.europa.eu/fp7/home_en.html
Tuesday 26 February 2008
GCV Greenhouse Gas Inventory Summary Guide and webpage
Further to the publication on Monday 18 February 2008 of the first greenhouse gas inventory for the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley area, an 8-page summary guide of the inventory has been produced.
This publication has been published to coincide with the launch of a new webpage on the Joint Committee’s website, collating its current work on climate change and also summarising the current policy and research context for land-use planning to address climate change.
The Joint Committee's climate change webpage can be found at: www.gcvcore.gov.uk/climatechange
The Summary Guide in PDF format can be downloaded from the link below:
Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Greenhouse Gas Inventory: A Summary Guide PDF 1.19 MB
If you have any questions then please contact George Eckton who is the Strategic Planner with responsibility for this study on 0141 229 7730.
Monday 18 February 2008
Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Greenhouse Gas Inventory
The Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Structure Plan Joint Committee was involved throughout 2007 in the InterMETREXPlus project - a partnership of European Metropolitan Regions working with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change.
The project utilised the GRIP (Greenhouse Gas Regional Inventory Project) model, developed by Dr Sebastian Carney of the Tyndall Centre, which is one of the first substantive methodologies to address the audit of greenhouse gas emissions at a metropolitan scale.
Detailed information on the GRIP model is available at www.grip.org.uk
GRIP for Europe Pilot Study: Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Glasgow and the Clyde Valley PDF 440 KB
InterMETREXPlus Final Report 2007 PDF 1.67 MB
Details of the various InterMetrexPlus project outputs are available from www.euco2.org
and a copy of the summary prospectus of the EUC02 project is available:
EUCO2 Prospectus PDF 240 KB
If you have any questions then please contact George Eckton who is the Strategic Planner with responsibility for this study on 0141 229 7730.
Monday 4 February 2008
Waste Management Issues Report 2007 update
The Waste Management Issues Report was published by the Joint Committee on 15 October 2007 and comments on the issues raised were invited by 21 December 2007. The purpose of the Waste Management Issues Report was to enable the constituent authorities of the Joint Committee working with SEPA and the Scottish Government to identify the potential need and location for strategic waste management facilities to form an integrated system to serve the Glasgow and Clyde Valley area.
The Joint Committee distributed copies of the Waste Management Issues Report to a list of 50 stakeholders agreed in consultation with SEPA and the report was also made available for download via the Joint Committee’s website. The Structure Plan Manager received 10 responses (20%) to the consultation from stakeholders.
The responses will be the subject of a paper to the next Joint Committee meeting on 3 March 2008.
The paper will be available to download from late February 2008 from this link.
The Joint Committee would like to thank all participants for their involvement.
Monday 4 February 2008
Town Centres and Retailing Issues Report 2007 update
The Town Centres and Retailing Issues Report was published by the Joint Committee on 1 October 2007 and comments were invited by 17 December 2007.
The purpose of the Issues Report was to enable the constituent authorities of the Joint Committee to consider the key issues relating to the development of town centres and retailing in the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley area. It is part of the Joint Committee’s early preparatory steps towards the inaugural Strategic Development Plan in 2011.
The Joint Committee distributed 70 copies of the Town Centres and Retailing Issues Report to a list of stakeholders agreed by the Retail Topic Group and the report was also made available for download via the Joint Committee’s website.
The Structure Plan Manager received 27 responses (39%) to the consultation, from stakeholders. The responses will be the subject of a paper to the next Joint Committee meeting on 3 March 2008.
The paper will be available to download from late February 2008 from this link.
The Joint Committee would like to thank all participants for their involvement.
Monday 21 January 2008
Annual Review 2007 now available
The Joint Committee today publishes its Annual Review 2007. The document focuses on the work of the Committee over the last twelve months
Key issues covered include the Scottish Ministers' Draft Modifications to the Third Alteration to the Structure Plan, climate change and forthcoming changes to the planning system in Scotland.
The Annual Review 2007 can be downloaded as a PDF from here - file size 1.3 MB.
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