NPF4 is a long term plan for Scotland that sets out where development and infrastructure goes – an overarching policy framework for Scotland’s development to 2045 which will form part of the development plan and influence day-to-day decision-making in planning once adopted.
It responds to planning reform laid out in the Planning (Scotland) Act 2019, where children and young people have now been given a much more prominent voice in land use planning than before.
NPF4 is not about just about a revised planning system, it sets a vision for how our places will change in the future and explains how we will work together to build sustainable, liveable, productive and distinctive places. This includes proposed policies around responding to the climate emergency and creating environments that better support children and young people’s rights, wellbeing and development.
The Scottish Government is consulting on this draft, with representations welcome between now and 31st March 2022. If you attend these seminars you will:
a) Contribute to a joint representation to NPF4
b) Find out more about NPF4, to help your organisation submit a bespoke response with the children and people you work with
c) Hear more about Play Sufficiency Assessments, and the consultation going out to children and young people to inform the regulations.
The draft NPF4 and OSSPSA draft Regulations are two separate consultations but running to the same timescale.
We hope that this is the future of genuinely purposeful listening to children’s voices.
You can book your place at one of these events through the Eventbrite links below:
Saturday February 19th 10am – 12 noon