Local Plans set out detailed policies and proposals to guide development. Falkirk Council must consult widely on the content of a Local Plan. After considering all views and objections and making suitable changes, Falkirk Council will adopt a Local Plan as the basis for its decision making on detailed planning matters in an area.
The Council currently has 8 settlement based Local Plans as listed here. However, a Falkirk Council Local Plan is in the advanced stages of preparation, which will consolidate the eight plans into a single, comprehensive document. A finalised version of this Council-wide plan was placed on deposit for objections from 20 April 2007 to 1 June 2007. A large number of objections have been lodged, and the Council approved its responses to these objections in April 2008. A local plan inquiry into outstanding objections is anticipated early in 2009 and the Local Plan is expected to adopted in 2010.
Meanwhile, through the new Planning (Scotland) etc Act 2006, the system of development plans in Scotland is changing. In the future, within Falkirk Council, we will be preparing a single local development plan, in place of Structure and Local Plans.
The Ordnance Survey mapping included within this website is provided by Falkirk Council under licence from the Ordnance Survey in order to fulfill its public function as the local planning authority to publicise Falkirk Council Local Plans and other planning related publications. Persons viewing this mapping should contact Ordnance Survey Copyright for advice where they wish to licence Ordnance Survey mapping for their own use.