Landscape plan
A landscape plan is the instrument of landscape planning at the level of cities and municipalities in Germany. Its task is to present the specific spatial and content requirements and the measures to be derived from them , based on the goals and principles of nature conservation and landscape management ( § 1 and § 2 BNatSchG ) and thus a framework for the intended settlement development, the undeveloped fields and the To give forest and nature protection areas. In the sense of the countercurrent principle, landscape plans are at the same time the precise specification of landscape framework plans and the basis for their creation.
It is set up for the entire municipal area and is the ecological basis for urban land use planning , especially land use planning . The landscape plan spans a period of 10 to 15 years and is adapted and updated to reflect current developments.
The landscape plan is legally defined in Section 11 of the Federal Nature Conservation Act.
content
A landscape plan usually includes:
- Objectives for open spaces in the local areas (e.g. purposes for fallow areas )
- Extent and limits of settlement activity
- Development goals for nature and landscape (e.g. suggestions for compensation areas, hiking trails , planting measures)
- Parts of nature and landscape that are particularly worth preserving (e.g. priority areas for nature conservation)
- special stipulations for forest uses (e.g. reforestation areas)
