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.
Regional Priority Code | Landscape Priorities | Relevant Packages |
FOR13 | Valued and attractive landscapes which contribute positively to peoples environment, through: a. The safeguarding and enhancement of the diverse character of rural landscapes b. Enhanced experience, understanding and enjoyment of the landscape c. High quality design in both new build and natural elements that enhance and strengthen the landscape character of an area d. Actions at a landscape scale which strengthen and/or enhance the landscape character of an area and contribute to sense of place 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. f. Action for landscapes whose qualities have been degraded by past use Particularly proposals that: - enhance the quality of the areas landscapes and the distinctive patterns and features that contribute to landscape character (defined in Landscape Character Assessments)
- maintain and enhance the special qualities of the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park and Trossachs National Scenic Area
- involve local communities in their landscapes and greenspace
- open up new viewpoints or safeguard important views and landmarks from adverse land use change. Highest priority will be given to projects within the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Scenic Areas, followed by projects within the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, Fife and Pentland Hills Regional Parks and sites listed in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
- safeguard, enhance or restore the important historic dimension of the areas landscapes
- improve degraded and disused post-industrial landscapes
- improve the landscape along key transport corridors
- conserve, enhance or interpret important geological and geomorphological features
- contribute to the landscape elements of the Central Scotland Forest Strategy.
| 5 & 18 |
FOR14 | An increased contribution to the diversity and character of landscape form Scotland's woods and forests, through restructuring planted woodlands, particularly through the use of Low Intervention Silvicultural Systems, and diversification of a range of well designed woodland types in areas 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. Particularly proposals that: - support woodland management and expansion consistent with: existing plans for Forest Habitat Networks (Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, Edinburgh and the Lothians and outline plans for Fife, Stirling and Clackmannanshire); the Integrated Habitat Network for Falkirk, or; the objectives of the Central Scotland Forest Trust
- develop woodlands around towns and cities which enhance their landscape setting (and which are not eligible for Woodlands in and around Towns (WIAT) support)
- support new woodland creation on vacant or derelict land
- support Forest Plans and associated actions to restructure large-scale, first-rotation conifer plantations
- develop new woodlands to enhance the landscape of rural areas
| 15-16 & 18 |