Land Use Strategy Update
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- Created: Wednesday, 25 April 2012 00:00
Scotland's first Land Use Strategy (LUS) was published in March 2011 and provides a framework for sustainable land use. An Action Plan was published in December 2011 setting out how the 13 Proposals in the Strategy would be delivered. This will be followed by the first annual Progress Statement this summer. The Scottish Government is hosting an event that will look at delivery of the LUS and the mainstreaming of the Principles for Sustainable Land Use into land use decision making.
Measuring the true distance which residents have to travel to access greenspaces in their local area is of interest to a wide range of groups, researchers and organisations across CSGN. A recently developed pilot project, being led by the CSGN Support unit and funded by FCS and SNH, is looking at building on existing work across the CSGN to develop a straight forward methodology which can be replicated across the network to produce data for monitoring change and guiding strategic development.
The Inner Forth Landscape Initiative (IFLI) is an exciting new partnership between local government, charities, and agencies working together with local people to conserve and enhance the landscape of the Inner Forth.
Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park celebrates a triple success: firstly as finalists in the Renfrewshire Quality Awards with their ‘Windows on Wildlife’ project; then as part of the ‘Branching Out’ team led by Forestry Commission Scotland that gained the ‘Innovation Award’ in the prestigious Nature of Scotland awards; and becoming a Centre of Excellence for disability sailing.