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the shaping of the policies and proposals that make up the St Andrews & EastFife Local Plan.This Local Plan comprises:• The Plan Statement which describes the overall strategy and providesa summary of the planning issues, policies, and proposals affectingindividual towns and villages. These are described in Settlement Plans.• A Proposals Map identifying the location of development proposalsand where policies apply geographically. The Proposals Map includesindividual Settlement map insets• Policies which are used in decisions to manage and promotedevelopment.An Action Programme is published along with the Local Plan describingplanning proposals, who is responsible for implementing them, and theiranticipated timescales. The Action Programme will be updated every twoyears to monitor progress on implementing the Local Plan.The Action Programme includes the Planning Obligations FinancialFramework.A CD containing the Plan documents and supporting papers is available. Thedocuments and all associated papers are also available online atwww.fifedirect.org.uk. A link from this website allows all of the documents tobe viewed interactively. It should be noted that non-Fife Council documentsincluded as supporting papers have not been endorsed by the Council forplanning purposes and do not form part of the St Andrews & East Fife LocalPlan.The Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes (Scotland)Regulations 2004 has made Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) oflocal development plans a statutory requirement. SEA has been undertaken inpreparing the Local Plan to comply with the Regulations and Europeanlegislation and an environmental report has been prepared alongside theLocal Plan. The intention of SEA is to provide for a high level of protection ofthe environment and to contribute to the integration of environmentalconsiderations into the preparation and adoption of plans and programmeswith a view to promoting sustainable development (EC Directive 2001/42/EC).