Scottish Government documents within the Construction Information Service

• Planning, economy, place
• Planning, environmental protection and regulation (revised edition)
• Play strategy for Scotland: our action plan
• Play strategy for Scotland: our vision
• Play strategy for Scotland: progress report
• Play vision statement and action plan 2025-2030
• Policy statement - zero waste regulations
• Potential of development charges in the Scottish planning system
• Practical fire safety guidance for existing care homes
• Practical fire safety guidance for existing high rise domestic buildings
• Practical fire safety guidance for existing non-residential premises
• Practical fire safety guidance for existing premises with sleeping accommodation
• Practical fire safety guidance for existing specialised housing and similar premises
• Preparing for a changing climate: Scotland's climate change adaptation framework. Strategic environmental assessment - post adoption statement
• Preparing local rural development strategies: frameworks for action
• Prevention of homelessness guidance
• Private finance initiative and the planning process
• Procedural guidance for Crown buildings. 3rd edition
• Procedural guidance on certification (including information to be submitted with a building warrant application)
• Processing planning applications for national and major developments
• Processing planning applications for national and major developments
• Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014: statutory guidance (updated June 2021)
• Procurement regulations during COVID-19 outbreak
• Progress report on the Low carbon building standards strategy for Scotland
• Project Bank Accounts - availability and accessibility to subcontractors
• Project bank accounts - revised thresholds and procedures
• Project initiation and contracts handbook
• Provide occupants with opportunity to escape (issued 02.10.2009)
• Provide occupants with opportunity to escape (issued 19.07.2010)
• Provide occupants with opportunity to escape (issued 31.08.2017)
• Provide occupants with the opportunity to escape (issued 01.02.2016)
• Provide occupants with the opportunity to escape (issued 01.02.2016)
• Provide occupants with the opportunity to escape (issued 05.02.2016)
• Provide occupants with the opportunity to escape (issued 14.08.2014)
• Provide occupants with the opportunity to escape (issued 19.08.2016)
• Provide occupants with the opportunity to escape (issued 20.04.2016)
• Provide occupants with the opportunity to escape (issued 26.02.2016)
• Provision of accessible kitchen facilities (issued 14.07.2011)
• Provision of accessible kitchen facilities (issued 17.09.2009)
• Provision of cavity barriers (issued 05.2011)
• Provision of cavity barriers (issued 20.10.2015)
• Provision of cavity barriers (issued 21.10.2014)
• Provision of material evidence and conduct of parties in proceedings before DPEA reporters
• Public attitudes to the environment in Scotland
• Public attitudes to the environment in Scotland - technical report
• Public consultations about climate change and the circular economy
• Public engagement for sub-20MW wind turbine proposals - good practice guidance
• Public procurement rules after EU Exit on 31 January 2020
• Public sector leadership on the global climate emergency. Guidance, October 2021
• Publishing planning applications online - data protection guidance for planning authorities
• Quality assessment in development control
• Quantitative greenhouse gas impact assessment: a tool for spatial planning policy development. Phase 1: feasibility report
• Reasonable adjustment
• Reasons for delays with planning applications for housing
• Reclamation of surface mineral workings
• Record of fire safety risk assessment. Example. Care home
• Record of fire safety risk assessment. Example. House in multiple occupation (HMO)
• Record of fire safety risk assessment. Example. Small factory
• Record of fire safety risk assessment. Example. Small hotel
• Record of fire safety risk assessment. Larger premises
• Record of fire safety risk assessment. Smaller premises
• Recording, filming or using social media to comment on oral proceedings
• Regeneration areas and barriers to employment
• Regulations under the Planning (Scotland) Act - November 2019
• Relationship between the statutory land use planning system and marine planning and licensing
• Renewables action plan
• Renewables advice - anaerobic digestion (February 2011)
• Renewables advice - deep geothermal (March 2012)
• Renewables advice - energy from waste (February 2011)
• Renewables advice - energy storage (December 2013)
• Renewables advice - hydro schemes (December 2013)
• Renewables advice - landfill gas (February 2011)
• Renewables advice - large photovoltaic arrays (February 2011)
• Renewables advice - Microgeneration (March 2013)
• Renewables advice - onshore wind turbines (May 2014)
• Renewables advice - Planning and heat (October 2015)
• Renewables advice - Wind farm developments on peat land (June 2011)
• Renewables advice - woody biomass (July 2013)
• Report of the review panel on Building Standards (Fire Safety) in Scotland
• Report of the review panel on building standards compliance and enforcement
• Report on proposals and policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions following annual target for 2019 not being met
• Reporters' decisions - house style
• Reporters' jurisdiction at appeal to determine the validity of a planning application
• Requests to sist
• Requirement to display an Energy performance certificate (EPC)
• Requirements for flood mapping: scoping study
• Requirements to assess and improve energy performance and emissions in existing non-domestic buildings - information leaflet
• Research on permitted development rights and planning guidance for electronic communications infrastructure
• Research on the general permitted development order and related mechanisms
• Research on the use of simplified planning zones and equivalent mechanisms used outwith Scotland
• Research project to consider proposed changes to the building standards fees regulations and their impacts: report
• Research project to establish the value of design in the built environment (Scotland)
• Research project to identify a cost recovery mechanism for local authorities dealing with dangerous and defective buildings
• Research project to improve and raise awareness of certification in Scotland
• Research project to inform the decision-making process for fire suppression systems in schools
• Research project to investigate occupier influence on indoor air quality in dwellings
• Research project to investigate the impact on Local Authorities verification role under the Building (Scotland) act 2003 and introduction of the building standards verification performance framework 2012
• Research project to review the cost effectiveness of sprinklers in residential properties. Final report
• Research project to review the current building standards fee structure and future requirements: final report
• Research project to review the relevancy of building regulations to dungsteads and farm effluent buildings