Integrated Rural Development and Sustainable Land Management, Strategies and Plans

The development of rural plans and strategies lies at the heart of LUC’s work on Integrated Rural Development, seeking for different geographical areas and topics to develop thinking and policies that understand and forge the links between a high quality environment and sustainable rural economies and communities in ways that bring maximum benefit for a sustainable future.

Recent work has included

A Conservation Plan for Lundy – a 20-year plan
National Trust, Landmark Trust and English Nature, 2004/05

An Action Plan for the Southern Fringes of Swindon
North Wessex Downs AONB Unit and the Countryside Agency, 2004/05

The Agricultural Management of Common Land
Defra, 2004/05

Local Land Management Frameworks: Priorities for action – a provisional guide
Countryside Agency, 2004

Review of the Lessons for Sustainable Land Management and Integrated Rural Development from the Countryside Agency’s Land Management Initiatives (LMIs) Countryside Agency, 2004

Preparation of revised National Park Management Plan Guidance
Countryside Agency, 2003/04

What Sort of Countryside Do We Want?
A review of public opinion and perceptions to inform future rural planning
Welsh Assembly Government, 2003/04
Sub-consultants to the Institute of Rural Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Preparation of the revised Statutory Management Plan for the South Downs
Sussex Downs Conservation Board and the East Hampshire AONB JAC, 2004/05

Preparation of the Statutory Management Plan for the North Wessex Downs AONB
North Wessex Downs Partnership, 2002-2003

Impacts of Hill Farming in England on the Economic, Environmental and Social Sustainability of the Uplands, and more widely.
Defra 2004
Sub-consultants to the Institute for European Environmental Policy

Moorlands at a Crossroads – The State of the Moorlands of Exmoor
Exmoor Society, 2004

Is This the Future We Want? Land Management Scenarios in the South West
Countryside Agency, 2001/02
Available to purchase as a booklet CAX 103, price £2.00, Countryside Agency

Delivery of the Countryside Agency’s Vision of Integrated Rural Development through the structural funds and the ERDP
Countryside Agency, 2001
Sub-consultants to SQW

The Parratt Catchment Study – A new approach to the integrated management of water and land in the Catchment of the River Parratt in the Somerset Levels
Somerset County Council, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Environment Agency, English Nature and the Levels and Moors Partnership, 2000
Winner of the RTPI Silver Award for Planning 2002

Literature Review of Integrated Rural Development from the pan European to the local project level
Countryside Agency, 2000

High Weald Land Management Initiative: Outline Project Framework
Countryside Agency and High Weald AONB Unit, 1999