RURAL LAND USE PLANNING:

INTRODUCTION

                                              Content

•      Significance

•      Priorities and challenges

•      Interventions

•      Institutional framework

•      Effectiveness

•      Clarify aims

                                        ΠSIGNIFICANCE
                    Rural planning has been the poor relation to urban planning

•      Problems dispersed and ‘disguised’

•      Post-war reconstruction

•      Agriculture and forestry excluded from planning permission

•      Image is tranquil and unchanging

                                 PRIORITIES OF RURAL PLANNING

•      Urban development

•      Food production

•      Resources (timber, minerals, water)

•      Conservation

•      Recreation

•      Place of peace and solitude

                                 Challenges faced by rural planning

•      Managing change

                                 Ž INTERVENTIONS IN RURAL   
                                               PLANNING
                                       “Gilg-Selman spectrum”

•      Public ownership

•      Regulatory controls

•      Monetary disincentives

•      Financial incentives

•      Voluntary approaches

•      Agency or body

•      Designations

•      Market methods

                                   INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK

                    Lord Haskins Review of Rural Service Delivery (Autumn, 2003)

•      Better accountability

•      Readiness for policy change

•      Devolution

•      Customer focus

•      Simplicity

•      Co-ordination

•      Value for money

                                       EFFECTIVENESS OF RURAL
                                              PLANNING

                                    Planning constraints coffin
                                            (Gilg, 1996)

•      Imperfect knowledge

•      Influence of personalities, ideologies and political shifts

•      Socio-economic & political realities

•      Pressure of day-to-day events

•      Restrictions of existing environment

•      Unforseen events and unexpected results of past policies

                                   Problems of policy evaluation

•      Whose goals?



•      Policies change over time



•      ‘Counter-factual’ problem



•      Unintended consequences

                                            ‘ AIMS

•      Examine the nature of changes taking place in the countryside and the processes involved



•      Evaluate the impact of policies, plans and management schemes which seek to guide the
processes of change

                           Four main components of rural land use change

•      Growth and changing composition of urban areas

•      Changes in agricultural sector

•      Extension of forest and woodland

•      Growing competition for rural land from ‘quasi-urban’ uses