“…Fredriksson, 2011;Malbert, 1998;Sandström, 2002). Furthermore, research has predominantly focused on areas such as specific aspects of the plan or the planning process, for example, how sustainability is handled in MCP (Åkerskog, 2009;Andersson et al, 2013;Guinchard, & Cars, 1997;Nilsson & Iversen, 2015;Persson, 2013), on different attachment MCPs such as wind power, rural development in shoreline areas and in-depth plans for towns and larger villages/districts (Gullstrand, Löwgren, & Castensson, 2003;Kalbro, Lindgren, & Paulsson, 2012;Khan, 2003;Söderholm, Ek, & Pettersson, 2007;Söderholm & Pettersson, 2011), on public participation (Henecke & Khan, 2002;Johansson, 2001;Malbert, 1998;Morf, 2005) and on MCP as a learning process (Elbakidze et al, 2015). Studies on how legal requirements for MCP are handled in practice are rare and mainly found in undergraduate theses and similar studies (e.g.…”