Land Use Strategy (LUS) Delivery Evaluation Project - Volume 2: Appendices

• 1 Large Urban Areas
• 2 Other Urban Areas
• 3 Accessible small Towns
• 4 Remote Small Towns
• 5 Very Remote Small Towns
• 6 Accessible Rural
• 7 Remote Rural
• 8 Very Remote Rural

(Scottish Government 8 fold Urban Rural Classification^[99])

• National
• Regional
• Sub-regional
• Local

• Based on existing administrative boundaries
• Based on existing land ownership boundaries
• Based on natural feature / systems:
  • Landscape
  • Water catchments/sub-catchments
  • Ecosystem
  • Habitat

• Public sector
• Private sector
• Third/voluntary sector
• Community based

• Yes
• No
• To a degree

The following criteria were used to assess the degree to which the case study was 'partnership based':

• Power/leadership
  • Does one of the partners take the lead/have more power and influence over decision-making?
  • Are the roles and responsibilities of each partner clearly defined?
• Finance
  • How is the partnership financed?
  • Is finance split across all partners or does one partner provide all/most of the finance?
  • Does the lead finance partner have more power/influence?
• Identity
  • Does the partnership have a strong identity that is different or greater than the sum of the individual parts?

• Limited (<3 activities/sectors)
• Multiple (3-5 activities/sectors)
• extensive (>5 activities/sectors)

Economy/Economic development

• Spatial planning and development planning
• Place-making
  • Planning and delivery of green infrastructure to support economic growth (e.g. on business and industrial estates/parks)
  • Planning and delivery of public realm works to support economic growth (e.g. in town and city centres)
• Support for regeneration of vacant and derelict land (VDL)
• 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
• Renewable energy (e.g. hydro, wind, biomass etc)
  • Planning and policy development
  • Technical and policy support
  • Development/on the ground delivery
• Commercial forestry
  • Planning and policy development
  • Technical and policy support (e.g. diversification, high nature value forestry etc)
  • Development/on the ground delivery
• Commercial agriculture
  • Planning and policy development
  • Technical and policy support (e.g. diversification, high nature value farming etc)
  • Development/on the ground delivery
• Commercial game estates management
• Tourism development and management
  • Tourism management planning
  • Supporting the development of wildlife tourism
  • Supporting the development of adventure tourism
  • Supporting tourism businesses to improve environmental credentials (e.g. Green Tourism Business Scheme)
  • Promotion of local produce

Transport

• Spatial planning and development planning
• Planning, policy and delivery of public transport infrastructure
  • Routes/design
  • Bus
  • Rail
  • Ferry
  • Air
• Planning, policy and delivery of access and active travel infrastructure
• Routes/design for core path networks

Climate change

• Climate change mitigation
  • Renewable energy (see above also)
  • Commercial/non-commercial forestry (see above also)
  • Peatland management
  • Sustainable design and construction (e.g. policy development within LDPs, exemplar projects etc)
  • Development and support for community food growing
• Climate change adaptation
  • Flood risk management
  • Water management
  • Invasive species management
  • Conservation management
  • Sustainable design and construction (see above also)

Nature and landscape

• Conservation management
  • Invasive species management
  • Deer management
  • Protected species management
  • Habitat management (e.g. peat)
  • Ecological surveys
• Habitat creation
  • Native woodland expansion
  • Tree nursery management
• Landscape studies and planning
  • Landscape character assessment
  • Wild land studies
  • Landscape capacity studies (e.g. in relation to renewable energy development pressures)
• Landscape sensitive planning and delivery of access infrastructure (e.g. footpaths, long distance paths etc)
• Spatial planning and development planning

Community development and 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
• Provision of education and training in land based skills
• Support for local enterprise
• Outreach activities
• Provision of volunteering opportunities and volunteer recruitment and management

• Yes
• No
• Potentially

• Private
• Public
• Voluntary