SPICe Spotlight | Solas air SPICe
Reading Time: 6 minutesSPICe will be producing a series of blogs to illustrate the links between climate change and the policy areas covered by each subject committee.
This blog illustrates the links between the remit of the Scottish Parliament’s Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee and climate change.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis blog looks at potential issues with incorrectly installed spray foam insulation, and the impact spray foam insulation can have on mortgages.
Reading Time: 6 minutesLast updated 16 November 2023 (note a newer version of this blog was published on 13 May 2025) This blog considers the number of second
Reading Time: 7 minutesThis blog looks at the relationship between Scotland’s Fourth National Planning Framework and other strategic land uses.
Reading Time: 6 minutesIntroduction Published during COP26, the Draft Fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4) provides a statutory strategy and framework for land use out to Scotland’s net zero
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis blog discusses policies in the new draft Fourth National Planning Framework for biodiversity and nature recovery.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA central hub for SPICe blogs and briefings on the draft National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4).
Reading Time: 5 minutesAn overview of the national spatial strategy, and associated regional action areas,, set out in the draft National Planning Framework 4.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis blog provides an overview of how the National Planning Framework (NPF) has developed over the last 20 years, outlines the contents of the recently published draft NPF4 and details planned parliamentary scrutiny.
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast week (23rd May) the Scottish Government brought forward a Bill to keep Scotland at the “forefront of global ambition” on climate change. So, what