Planning Policy Section of Gondor District Council
Planning Policy Section Of Gondor District CounciL
Advices on Focusing Landscape Matters in The New Planning of Gondor
A Report to Mr. David Aragorn
Landscape Planner-090163951
February 2012
Advices on Focusing Landscape Matters in The New Planning of Gondor
February 2012
1
INTRODUCTION
1. As a member who signed and ratified the European Landscape Convention (ELC), UK needs to make a public and national commitment to support the containing principles. The UK government indicates that the whole country need to compliant with the requirements of the Convention. In response to government’s advice, it is necessary that local authority sketches out their own implementation framework for planning and especially to consider of landscape issues within the planning process. As a new district council created in the Yorkshire and the Humber Region, I strongly advise you, Mr David Aragorn, to focus greater attention on landscape matters in the new generation of Gondor’s planning documents. Firstly, this report will explain you the arisen requirements from the ELC, the specific planning implications in the new council and the applicable approaches dealing with landscape in the new policy documents. The requirement of the ELC will be discussed as the context of relevant material in national planning policy guidance, in recent policy statements from Natural England, and of the advice offered by Natural England to Local Authorities on coping with landscape in the new generation of planning documents. Lastly, the report will summarise the effective procedure would be taken by the new Gondor District Council to demonstrate the principles of the Convention.
CONTEXT: Implications of the European Landscape Convention
The definition of landscape has clearly defined by the European Landscape Convention as “an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of area, as perceived by people, whose
Advices on Focusing Landscape Matters in The New Planning of Gondor
A Report to Mr. David Aragorn
Landscape Planner-090163951
February 2012
Advices on Focusing Landscape Matters in The New Planning of Gondor
February 2012
1
INTRODUCTION
1. As a member who signed and ratified the European Landscape Convention (ELC), UK needs to make a public and national commitment to support the containing principles. The UK government indicates that the whole country need to compliant with the requirements of the Convention. In response to government’s advice, it is necessary that local authority sketches out their own implementation framework for planning and especially to consider of landscape issues within the planning process. As a new district council created in the Yorkshire and the Humber Region, I strongly advise you, Mr David Aragorn, to focus greater attention on landscape matters in the new generation of Gondor’s planning documents. Firstly, this report will explain you the arisen requirements from the ELC, the specific planning implications in the new council and the applicable approaches dealing with landscape in the new policy documents. The requirement of the ELC will be discussed as the context of relevant material in national planning policy guidance, in recent policy statements from Natural England, and of the advice offered by Natural England to Local Authorities on coping with landscape in the new generation of planning documents. Lastly, the report will summarise the effective procedure would be taken by the new Gondor District Council to demonstrate the principles of the Convention.
CONTEXT: Implications of the European Landscape Convention
The definition of landscape has clearly defined by the European Landscape Convention as “an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of area, as perceived by people, whose