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 6. Details of the Activities/Sectors Covered by the Case Study Land Use Delivery Mechanisms

Case study Details of activities/sectors
Buccleuch Estates

Economy/economic development

  • Renewable energy
  • Commercial forestry
  • Commercial agriculture
  • Commercial game estates management
  • Tourism development/ management

Nature and landscape

  • Habitat creation
Central Scotland Green Network (CSGN)

Economy/economic development

  • Place-making (including public realm and green infrastructure)
  • Support for the regeneration of vacant and derelict land
  • Supporting employment and employability
  • Renewable energy
  • Support for commercial forestry
  • Support for tourism development (e.g. promotion of local produce, development of wildlife and adventure tourism)

Transport

  • Planning/policy/ delivery of active travel infrastructure and core path networks

Climate change

  • Mitigation - development/ support for community food growing
  • Adaptation - flood risk management, invasive species management and conservation management

Nature and landscape

  • Conservation management - support for invasive species management, deer management, protected species management, habitat management (e.g. peat), ecological surveys
  • Habitat creation
  • Landscape studies/planning

Community development/health

  • Place-making (including public realm and green infrastructure)
  • 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
Coigach Assynt Living Landscape (CALL)

Economy/economic development

  • 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
  • Tourism development and management
  • Transport
  • Planning/policy/ delivery of active travel infrastructure and core path networks

Climate change

  • Mitigation - peatland management
  • Adaptation - conservation management

Nature and landscape

  • Conservation management - including deer management, protected species management, habitat management (e.g. peat), ecological surveys, habitat creation (including native woodland expansion)
  • Tree nursery management
  • Landscape studies and planning
  • Landscape sensitive planning and delivery of access infrastructure (e.g. footpaths, long distance paths etc)

Community development/health

  • 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
Dee Catchment Partnership (DCP) Business Plan

Effectively all sectors/activities

Glasgow LDP

Economy/economic development

  • Place-making (including public realm and green infrastructure)
  • Support for the regeneration of vacant and derelict land
  • Supporting employment and employability
  • Renewable energy - planning and policy development
  • Tourism development and management

Transport

  • Spatial planning/development planning
  • Planning and policy development for public transport infrastructure
  • Planning and policy development for active travel infrastructure and core path networks

Climate change

  • Mitigation - renewable energy, sustainable design/construction and support for community food growing
  • Adaptation - flood risk management, water management and sustainable design and construction

Nature and Landscape

  • Conservation management - ecological surveys
  • Landscape studies and planning
  • Landscape sensitive planning
  • Spatial planning/development planning

Community development/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
  • Support for local enterprise
Forest and Woodland Strategies (FWS): 1) Perth and Kinross; and 2) Stirling and Clackmannanshire

Economy/economic development

  • Commercial forestry - planning and policy development, technical and policy support (e.g. diversification, high nature value forestry etc)
  • Commercial agriculture - technical and policy support (e.g. diversification into farm forestry)
  • Tourism development and management - support for tourism management planning and adventure tourism

Transport

  • Planning and policy development for active travel infrastructure and support for the delivery of core path networks

Climate change

  • Mitigation - commercial/ non-commercial forestry, support for community forestry
  • Adaptation - conservation management

Nature and landscape

  • Conservation management - deer management, habitat management
  • Habitat creation - native woodland expansion
  • Landscape studies and planning
  • Landscape sensitive planning and delivery of infrastructure

Community development/health

  • 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
LLTNP National Park Partnership Plan Effectively all sectors/activities
Monitor Farms

Commercial agriculture

  • Planning and policy development
  • Technical and policy support (e.g. diversification, high nature value farming etc)
  • Development/on the ground delivery
North Harris Trust (NHT)

Economy/economic development

  • Supporting employment and employability
  • Renewable energy - planning and policy development, technical support and on the ground delivery
  • Tourism development and management - tourism management planning, supporting the development of wildlife/adventure tourism, promotion of local produce

Transport

  • Planning and policy development for active travel infrastructure and support for the delivery of core path networks

Climate change

  • Mitigation - non-commercial forestry
  • Adaptation - conservation management, invasive species management

Nature and landscape

  • Conservation management - deer management, invasive species management, habitat management, protected species management, ecological surveys
  • Habitat creation - native woodland expansion
  • Landscape studies and planning
  • Landscape sensitive planning and delivery of infrastructure

Community development/health

  • 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
Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Biosphere Effectively all sectors/activities
Wildlife Estates Scotland (WES)

Economy/economic development

  • Commercial game estates management
  • Tourism development and management - supporting the development of wildlife/adventure tourism, promotion of local produce

Nature and landscape

  • Conservation management - deer management, invasive species management, habitat management, protected species management, ecological surveys

Contact

Email: Liz Hawkins

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