Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce legislation to create artillery and firearms exclusion zones around places of spiritual importance and religious worship within Scotland.
Petitioner: Dr Conrad Harvey
Status: Closed
Date published: 26 May 2021
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SPICe Briefing (78KB, pdf) posted 03 September 2021
22 September 2021: The Committee agreed to close the petition under Rule 15.7 of Standing Orders on the basis that the Scottish Government states that planning decision-takers currently have the ability to consider and control noise in a way that reflects the particular circumstances and sensitivity of specific locations, and the actual impacts of individual developments; a 5-mile exclusion around existing places of worship would be a comparatively blunt approach to controlling noise-generating developments, as it would be unable to take cognisance of local circumstances; legal and policy frameworks governing the development and operation of potentially noisy developments, including firing ranges, are proportionate, robust and effective; and it has no current plans to review or amend the legal and policy frameworks governing the development and operation of potentially noisy developments.
OfficialReport of Meeting 22 September 2021
PE1874/A: Fifty Calibre Shooters Association UK submission of 4 June 2021
PE1874/B: Eskdalemuir Community Council submission of 11 June 2021
PE1874/C: Scottish Government submission of 25 June 2021
PE1874/D: William Martin submission of 3 July 2021
PE1874/E: Humanist Society Scotland submission of 5 July 2021
PE1874/F: Petitioner submission of 23 June 2021
PE1874/G: Petitioner submission of 20 July 2021
PE1874/H: Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery submission of 4 August 2021