Land Use Strategy (LUS) Delivery Evaluation Project - Volume 2: Appendices

This report provides the fundings of the Land Use Strategy Delivery Evaluation Project undertaken in Scotland between 2012 and 2014. It evaluates eleven case study land use delivery mechanisms to ascertain their effectiveness in translating the strategic Principles of the LUS into decision-making on the ground.


Appendix 5. Land Use Delivery Mechanism Characteristics

Characteristic Potential options
Location / degree of rurality
  • 1 Large Urban Areas
  • 2 Other Urban Areas
  • 3 Accessible small Towns
  • 4 Remote Small Towns
  • 5 Very Remote Small Towns
  • 6 Accessible Rural
  • 7 Remote Rural
  • 8 Very Remote Rural

(Scottish Government 8 fold Urban Rural Classification[99])

Scale
  • National
  • Regional
  • Sub-regional
  • Local
Rationale for spatial delineation of the area of land encompassed by the land use delivery mechanism
  • Based on existing administrative boundaries
  • Based on existing land ownership boundaries
  • Based on natural feature / systems:
    • Landscape
    • Water catchments/sub-catchments
    • Ecosystem
    • Habitat
Tenure/actors involved
  • Public sector
  • Private sector
  • Third/voluntary sector
  • Community based
Partnership based
  • Yes
  • No
  • To a degree

The following criteria were used to assess the degree to which the case study was 'partnership based':

  • Power/leadership
    • Does one of the partners take the lead/have more power and influence over decision-making?
    • Are the roles and responsibilities of each partner clearly defined?
  • Finance
    • How is the partnership financed?
    • Is finance split across all partners or does one partner provide all/most of the finance?
    • Does the lead finance partner have more power/influence?
  • Identity
    • Does the partnership have a strong identity that is different or greater than the sum of the individual parts?
Breadth of activities/sectors covered
  • Limited (<3 activities/sectors)
  • Multiple (3-5 activities/sectors)
  • extensive (>5 activities/sectors)
Details of activities/sectors covered

Economy/Economic development

  • Spatial planning and development planning
  • Place-making
    • Planning and delivery of green infrastructure to support economic growth (e.g. on business and industrial estates/parks)
    • Planning and delivery of public realm works to support economic growth (e.g. in town and city centres)
  • Support for regeneration of vacant and derelict land (VDL)
  • Supporting employment and employability
    • Support for job creation in land based businesses
    • Provision of education and training in land based skills
    • Support for local enterprise
  • Renewable energy (e.g. hydro, wind, biomass etc)
    • Planning and policy development
    • Technical and policy support
    • Development/on the ground delivery
  • Commercial forestry
    • Planning and policy development
    • Technical and policy support (e.g. diversification, high nature value forestry etc)
    • Development/on the ground delivery
  • Commercial agriculture
    • Planning and policy development
    • Technical and policy support (e.g. diversification, high nature value farming etc)
    • Development/on the ground delivery
  • Commercial game estates management
  • Tourism development and management
    • Tourism management planning
    • Supporting the development of wildlife tourism
    • Supporting the development of adventure tourism
    • Supporting tourism businesses to improve environmental credentials (e.g. Green Tourism Business Scheme)
    • Promotion of local produce

Transport

  • Spatial planning and development planning
  • Planning, policy and delivery of public transport infrastructure
    • Routes/design
    • Bus
    • Rail
    • Ferry
    • Air
  • Planning, policy and delivery of access and active travel infrastructure
  • Routes/design for core path networks

Climate change

  • Climate change mitigation
    • Renewable energy (see above also)
    • Commercial/non-commercial forestry (see above also)
    • Peatland management
    • Sustainable design and construction (e.g. policy development within LDPs, exemplar projects etc)
    • Development and support for community food growing
  • Climate change adaptation
    • Flood risk management
    • Water management
    • Invasive species management
    • Conservation management
    • Sustainable design and construction (see above also)

Nature and landscape

  • Conservation management
    • Invasive species management
    • Deer management
    • Protected species management
    • Habitat management (e.g. peat)
    • Ecological surveys
  • Habitat creation
    • Native woodland expansion
    • Tree nursery management
  • Landscape studies and planning
    • Landscape character assessment
    • Wild land studies
    • Landscape capacity studies (e.g. in relation to renewable energy development pressures)
  • Landscape sensitive planning and delivery of access infrastructure (e.g. footpaths, long distance paths etc)
  • Spatial planning and development planning

Community development and health

  • Place-making
  • Urban greenspace development
  • Development and support for community food growing
  • Promotion and facilitation of active travel
  • Promotion and facilitation of outdoor recreation
  • Provision of education and training in land based skills
  • Support for local enterprise
  • Outreach activities
  • Provision of volunteering opportunities and volunteer recruitment and management
Statutory basis
  • Yes
  • No
  • Potentially
Funding source
  • Private
  • Public
  • Voluntary

Contact

Email: Liz Hawkins

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