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This paper assesses the efficacy and relevance of the Special Landscape Area (SLA) designation -a nonstatutory planning designation within the British planning system. SLAs cover significant areas of countryside, yet they remain neglected in planning research. The research reported here uses primary and secondary data to allow a critical assessment of SLAs across Wales. The results reveal confusion and contradiction within contemporary guidance and development plan policy, highlighting an emerging discourse between planners who seek to protect landscape using SLAs and those who advocate a more holistic approach.
Research to Support the Implementation of the European Landscape Convention in England
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The integration of such an approach into the NPF would recognise and enable the need for improving and facilitating the natural environments' connectivity to counter the stress of climate change and the effect of continual expansion of society's footprint. Recommendation 7: The NPF should set out a long term strategic horizon for spatial planning in England. The long term vision should include setting a time horizon of 30-50+ years, particularly given the critical role for spatial planning in adapting to climate change and other global trends, and supported by short and medium term goals (or action plans) and short term review periods. Recommendation 8: The NPF should provide a forum for debate and be informed by participation. Considering the scope and potential influence on the NPF it is crucial that the process that underpins it should be legitimate, transparent and pluralistic. This could be achieved by undertaking early and effective participation to enable the views of experts and the public to provide input to the possible and preferred directions for the NPF.
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