Cities like Glasgow are dynamic places that need to respond to the demands of a changing world. New technology, the modernisation of commerce and industry, and the expectancy for higher standards of design and quality of environment all combine to change the established urban form created over the last one hundred and fifty years. Glasgow City Council (the Council) has to respond to these challenges through the statutory planning system. The aim of the Plans Development Strategy is to build on Glasgow s strengths and continue to develop sustainable environments that attract residents, investors and businesses. The Council will encourage the development of attractive new neighbourhoods, communities and facilities while protecting and enhancing the Citys natural and built heritage, community focal points and residential districts. Achieving this will require a balance to be struck between adopting policies encouraging exciting new quality developments in areas where change would be beneficial and those that take a hard line on development that might have an adverse impact on infrastructure, residential amenity, environmental quality or social inclusion.
The Plan adopts a system of Development Policy Principles that guide new development. These replace the 42 land use policies contained in the old system of local plans covering the City. There are 13 Development Policy Principles.
The overarching principle that applies throughout the City relates to Quality and Design. The broad development strategy outlined in Part 1 of the Plan draws attention to the Councils aim to raise quality and design standards in the City. Therefore, when any development is proposed, irrespective of size, it shall have to meet high standards of design and use good quality materials.
The remaining 12 Development Policy Principles are area-based and cover specific parts of the City. These are shown on the Development Policy Principles Maps for the North, South, East and West sectors of the City, and for the City Centre.
These Development Policy Principles are supported by Development Policies, Design Standards and Supplementary Guides that cover a number of topic areas: the City Centre, Residential, Industry and Business, Shopping and Commercial, Transport and Parking, Urban Design, Built Heritage and Greenspace, Landscape and Environment.
The Plan acknowledges there are areas within the City that have significant regeneration or redevelopment potential that would benefit the City. Within these areas, identified as Areas of Focus, further planning work needs to be carried out to determine the precise shape and type of new development. The Development Policy Principle designations have been determined on the basis of existing and known development potential and will be used to help determine development applications. In the Areas of Focus, and where unforeseen development opportunities emerge, the Council recognises that new development proposals may not always accord with the Development Policy Principle designations in the Plan. The Council will take these considerations into view at the appropriate time and may support proposals if they meet the aims of the Citys Development Strategy by providing high quality and sustainable development that will assist positively the regeneration process, enhance the environment and bring about social inclusion. Any changes subsequently required to the designations will be achieved through the formal Local Plan preparation procedures (see Part 1 - Areas of Focus).
The Development Policy Principles are:
DEV 1 Quality and Design;
DEV 2 Residential;
DEV 3 Industry and Business;
DEV 4 Town Centre;
DEV 5 Other Retail and Commercial;
DEV 6 Principal Office Area (City Centre);
DEV 7 Principal Retail Area (City Centre);
DEV 8 Mixed Development;
DEV 9 Civic, Hospital and Tertiary Education;
DEV 10 Stadium;
DEV 11 Greenspace;
DEV 12 Green Belt; and
DEV 13 Transport Infrastructure.