Findings made in five categories

Sir John Orr made 38 recommendations in his review

Sir John Orr has made 38 recommendations in his review of marches and parades in Scotland.

The former Strathclyde Police chief constable has decided against proposing a Northern-Ireland style commission.

His recommendations are made in five categories: period of notice, involving local communities, decision making, parade effects and police costs.

The review follows controversial Loyalist and Republican parades in several parts of Scotland.

Some of the key recommendations:

• Organisers should give 28 days notice instead of seven to local authorities and the police of their intention to hold a procession

• In certain circumstances, where processions are arranged in response to unforeseen events, the 28 days notification period should be waived and organisers should be able to give less notice

• All organisers should notify their intention to march to local authorities and the police

• Local authorities and the police should set up "single gateways" within their organisations to deal with procession notifications

• Local authorities and the police should take certain key steps to assess notifications during the extended notification period

• Local authorities should complete risk assessments and impact analyses on notifications to provide good quality, factually based information to inform the decision making process

• The Scottish Executive should ensure that there are effective monitoring arrangements in place to demonstrate that local authorities and the police are implementing the new procedures in a way appropriate to their local circumstances with a regular public report produced

• Local authority associations and police associations should ensure good practice is shared more widely.