River Basin Planning Strategy for the Scotland River Basin District

River Basin Planning Strategy for the Scotland River Basin District

Contents

	Foreword
	Executive summary
1.	Introduction
1.1	Development of this Strategy
1.2	The Water Framework Directive
1.3	Implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Scotland
1.4	What are river basin planning and River Basin Management Plans?
1.5	Our vision of river basin planning
2.	Developing administrative structures and arrangements
2.1	Background
2.2	National Advisory Group
2.3	Area Advisory Groups
2.4	Formation of advisory groups
2.5	Leading the process
2.6	Coordinating the process
2.7	A bottom-up and top-down process
2.8	Existing water management groups
3.	Delivering participation and consultation
3.1	Background
3.2	Guiding principles to encourage participation and involvement
3.3	Delivering participation in Scotland
3.4	Supporting the involvement of others
4.	Coordination and cooperation between river basin planning and other planning processes
4.1	The importance of coordination and cooperation
4.2	Town and country planning
4.2.1	Policy and guidance
4.2.2	Modernising planning
4.2.3	Timescales and plan updating
4.2.4	Planning authority involvement in RBMP preparation
4.2.5	National Planning Framework (NPF)
4.2.6	Plan provisions
4.3	Other planning processes
4.3.1	National Parks
4.3.2	Community planning
4.3.3	Coastal planning
4.3.4	Natura 2000 sites
4.3.5	Biodiversity planning
4.3.6	Agriculture
4.3.7	Forestry
4.3.8	Freshwater fishery management
4.3.9	Catchment Management Plans
4.3.10	Flooding
4.4	Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)
5.	Summary of Strategy recommendations and monitoring progress
6.	List of Acronyms
Map 1: River Basin Districts in Scotland
Map 2: Area Advisory Group boundaries and surface waters
Table 1: Potential membership of the National Advisory Group
Table 2: Summary of actions
Figure 1: The main elements of the Water Framework Directive
Figure 2: The river basin management planning process
Figure 3: Summary of bottom-up and top-down river basin planning process
Figure 4: Levels of participation in river basin management planning
Figure 5: Components of good public participation