ALLIANCE response to NPF4 Consultation
- Area of Work: The ALLIANCE
- Type: News Item
- Published: 4th April 2022
The response to the draft National Planning Framework 4 consultation focuses on 20-minute neighbourhoods and human rights in planning.
The ALLIANCE have submitted a response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on the draft National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4). The NPF4 provides both an updated roadmap for specific regional developments, and national guidelines for approaching planning. Amongst the new considerations that planning authorities will be asked to make are whether developments support health and wellbeing, and uphold human rights.
In our response, the ALLIANCE welcome these new considerations, and call for them to be further embedded throughout the framework. In particular, our response notes a relative lack of specific references to how disabled people will be considered throughout planning. The framework should be explicit as to how it will contribute to realising the human right to independent living.
In addition, the framework encourages developments that adhere to the principles of 20-minute neighbourhoods. The ALLIANCE have previously investigated 20-minute neighbourhoods through an event series, which led to a wealth of discussion. Aspiring to 20-minute neighbourhoods is a positive step, though it is recognised that the principle is less applicable to rural areas. Ensuring that neighbourhoods have high quality and diverse housing options, are safely walkable and wheelable, have reliable and accessible transport links, and provide appropriate greenspace will be an important part of delivering on that aspiration.
You can read the full response below.
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