Retail planning guidance and policy in Scotland

Hayton, Keith

doi:https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2001.72.1.97

A review and critical analysis

Hayton, Keith

Town Planning Review (2001), 72, (1), 97–120.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2001.72.1.97
Language: English
Pages: 24

Abstract

Attempts to control the location of retail developments have been a feature of Scottish planning policy for over 30 years. The emphasis has been on enhancing existing centres. Only if suitable sites cannot be found here should edge-of-centre and then out-of-centre locations be considered. This policy is intended to attain a series of economic, environmental and social objectives. However, this paper argues, using Glasgow’s Buchanan Galleries shopping centre as an example, that it is possible to have a town-centre development that has all the characteristics and detrimental impacts of an out-of-town centre. The paper claims that the present sequential approach is a very crude test upon which to base retail planning policy. It needs to be refined to take account of such issues as the scale of developments, integration with existing facilities and the cumulative impact of a number of in-centre developments.

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