Rural

Rural areas and rural communities face a range of pressures and competing interests, which planners, in collaboration with other professionals are required to manage successfully. Recent European directives and government policies necessitate new approaches to managing rural spatial planning that will achieve balanced and satisfactory outputs.

Action List

These are spatial planning modules providing an easy to adopt set of steps to follow in implementing an action plan and offer guidance in the application of the subject knowledge.

• Conservation Areas
• Countryside Management

Knowledge Builder

Spatial planning modules which offer a detailed overview of the topic and references to further online and print based sources of topic specific information.

• Agricultural Buildings and Conversions
• Agricultural Dwellings and Occupancy Conditions
• Agriculture
• Archaeology and Ancient Monuments
• Conservation Areas in Scotland
• Countryside Sports and Recreation
• Integrated Rural Planning
• Landscape Character
• Landscape Planning
• Minerals
• Minerals in Scotland
• Rural Housing
• Rural Planning in Scotland
• Rural Planning Policy in Northern Ireland
• Village Planning
• Woodlands and Hedgerows