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Scotland's Native Trees and Shrubs
CEL:LFN Government policy requirements
The Scottish Executive set its primary landscape policy aim for the Trunk Road network in CEL:LFN as being 'to improve the quality and efficiency of road landscape design and management through the application of natural characteristics.' As a means to achieving this policy aim, a procedure is set out with three central themes for consideration throughout the design process:
- use natural characteristics
- explore alternatives
- use resources wisely
These three themes are then considered at each of the five stages of the design process:
- understand context and set objectives
- prepare conceptual solutions
- specify detail
- monitor implementation
- manage developing landscape
The wise use of native trees and shrubs is a key element of the first of these central themes; use natural characteristics. Semi-natural plant communities attract semi-natural communities of animals, fungi and other forms of life. Together, these natural processes gather their own momentum, illustrating the principles of a truly sustainable way of life.
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