This table shows the regional priorities relevant to the region you have selected.
Each regional priority has a unique code (column one) which will help you to identify your selected priorities when completing your Statement of Intent/Proposal.
The detailed description (column two) has been provided to help you understand the implications and outcomes being sought by each priority.
The package numbers (column three) will help you to cross reference those relevant packages to the regional priority you have selected, with the full list of packages detailed on the right hand side of the page.
Priority Code | Landscape Priorities | Relevant Packages |
| 13. Valued and attractive landscapes which contribute positively to peoples environment, through: | |
HIG13a | a. The safeguarding and enhancement of the diverse character of rural landscapes but particularly: - actions at township scale that will benefit the landscape of in-bye crofted areas, through management which maintains/enhances the range of different cropping and grazing regimes
- actions which will bring neglected croft land into positive management
- actions at the landscape scale to maintain/restore traditional field boundaries of trees, hedges or stone walls.
| 5 & 18 |
HIG13b | b. Enhanced experience, understanding and enjoyment of the landscape. - In particular, proposals involving the creation and maintenance of viewpoints in appropriate locations, especially key/prominent views.
| 5 & 18 |
HIG13c | c. High quality design in both new build and natural elements that enhance and strengthen the landscape character of an area. In particular: - proposals that are in line with the Sustainable Design Guides and make use of local materials.
| 5 & 18 |
HIG13d | d. Actions at a landscape scale which strengthen and/or enhance the landscape character of an area and contribute to sense of place. | 5 & 18 |
HIG13e | e. A strengthening and/or enhancement of the special qualities within National Scenic Areas (NSA), National Parks and locally designated landscapes. Actions should contribute to delivery of NSA Management Strategy where in place. In particular proposals that strengthen and/or enhance the landscape character/qualities within: - Areas of Great Landscape Value
- Historic Gardens and Designed Landscapes
- National Scenic Areas (NSA)
- the Cairngorms National Park (these actions should contribute to delivery of the Cairngorms National Park plan).
| 5 & 18 |
HIG13f | f. Action for landscapes whose qualities have been degraded by past use. In particular, well founded and effective actions which will mitigate, remove or restore landscape detractors in and around communities, visible from major transport routes and/or in areas of high value for wildness qualities. | 5 & 18 |
HIG14 | An increased contribution to the diversity and character of landscape from Scotland's woods and forests, through restructuring planted woodlands, particularly through the use of Low Intervention Impact Silvicultural Systems, and diversification of a range of well designed woodland types in the preferred areas, as identified in regional Indicative Forestry Strategies or Woodland Strategies or in line with Forest Habitat Networks, particularly the improvement of degraded or unsightly local environments. In particular proposals that: - support woodland management and expansion along the lines of the Forest Habitat Network Principles
- involve Forest Plans to restructure large scale, first-rotation conifer plantations.
- apply Low Impact Silvicultural Systems where appropriate, with particular focus on potential LISS sites in young woodlands
- create new woodlands which will enhance the predominantly mountainous and highly visible landscape in Highland.
- create new woodlands around communities which enhance the landscape, economic and social setting (and which are not eligible for WIAT support).
| 5, 15, 16 & 18 |