National Scenic Area
National Scenic Area (NSA) is the designation of the designated landscape protection areas in Scotland .
description
National Scenic Areas are protected landscapes in areas that are characterized by scenic beauty, often in connection with a national or cultural relevance. These include, for example, mountain ranges such as the Cuillin Hills , Ben Nevis or Glen Coe , lakes such as Loch Lomond , coasts and islands shaped by the oceans such as on the Hebrides , the Orkneys , the Shetlands or in the west of the Highlands as well as picturesque cultural landscapes in Perthshire , Borders or Dumfries and Galloway .
National Scenic Areas fall into IUCN Category V and thus correspond to the Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. They are comparable to the landscape protection areas in Germany, Austria and Switzerland . It is the responsibility of the Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) authority responsible for the conservation of Scotland's natural heritage .
National Scenic Areas have the same basic conceptual idea as the national parks , but in contrast to these, for example, they do not have an independent administration. At the local level , Local Landscape Areas , formerly known as Special Landscape Area or Area of Great Landscape Value , are also identified.
history
Although a commission commissioned by Minister Thomas Johnston , responsible for Scotland, had recommended five areas primarily and three more as secondary areas in the Ramsay Report named after its chairman in 1945 , this part of the United Kingdom remained with the 1950s due to the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 does not take into account the establishment of national parks. In 1962 the first local Area of Great Landscape Value was designated. In 1974 the Countryside Commission for Scotland (CCS), one of the two predecessor organizations of SNH, took up the national park idea again in its Park System for Scotland policy paper . In it, she outlined the conflicts between tourist use and the protection of the natural heritage, named five areas with Loch Lomond, the Trossachs , the Cairngorms , Ben Nevis and Glen Coe, in which such protection would be urgent and at the same time referred to a number of others Areas of pronounced attractiveness are available. These ideas were welcomed by the British government, which then commissioned CCS to develop a corresponding concept. In April 1978, Jean Balfour , chairwoman of the CCS, presented her report. In it, she named and described 40 areas that would be suitable for designation as NSA. In 1980 they were set up within the framework of existing planning principles. Since then, as of 2018, their number and extent have remained unchanged.
The legal basis of the National Scenic Areas is the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act of 1997, which was amended in 2006 by the Planning etc. (Scotland) Act . The thus inserted paragraph 263 A defines them as areas of outstanding scenic value in a national context . The provisions came into force in 2010 through a corresponding ordinance.
statistics
There are a total of 40 National Scenic Areas with a total area of 1,378,359 hectares . 357,864 of these are marine and 1,020,495 land, with the statistical limit being the mean spring flood . The largest area has South Lewis , Harris & North Uist with 202,388 ha, at the same time the largest sea area with 90,087 ha. Wester Ross has the largest land area with 143,881 hectares. The smallest NSA is River Earn (Comrie to St. Fillans) with 3108 hectares, and St Kilda has the smallest with 865 hectares.
In terms of number, the Council Area Highland (Council Area) is represented most frequently, with 14 of them in their entirety and another partially. There is only one NSA in the Shetlands, but it consists of seven separate parts. Four of the NSAs are located at the same time, in pairs of two, within the two national parks Loch-Lomond-and-the-Trossachs and Cairngorms established in 2002 and 2003 .
Picture gallery
Esha Ness, Shetland
Paps of Jura
View from Scott's View of the Eildon Hills
Village Bay, Hirta , St Kilda
Estuary of the Nith
Old Man of Hoy , Orkney
Auchencar, North Arran
Loch na Keal
literature
- Jean Balfour: Scotland's Scenic Heritage. Report of the Countryside Commission for Scotland from April 1978. Digitized , PDF., 6.7 MB (English)
- National Scenic Areas - Scotland's finest landscapes. Scottish Natural Heritage brochure, digitized , PDF., 446 kB (English)
- The special qualities of the National Scenic Areas. Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report No.37. Digitized , PDF., 59 MB (English)
Web links
- Countryside and Landscape in Scotland - National Scenic Areas , with links to dates and maps on the Scottish Government website
- Search via maps or lists with dates, descriptions and maps of the individual protected areas on the Scottish Natural Heritage website
Individual evidence
- ↑ NSA Special Qualities on the Scottish Natural Heritage website, accessed August 10, 2018.
- ↑ National Scenic Areas on the SNH website, accessed on August 10, 2018 (English)
- ^ Adrian Phillips: Management Guidelines for IUCN Category V Protected Areas. Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines Series No. 9, published in 2002 by the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA), p. 22. Digitized version , PDF, 738 kB, accessed on August 10, 2018 (English)
- ↑ Local Landscape Areas on the SNH website, accessed on August 10, 2018 (English)
- ↑ National Parks. A Scottish Survey. Scottish National Parks Survey Committee. Edinburgh 1945. Digitized , PDF, 4.1 MB (English).
- ^ National Scenic Areas Review - Scottish Natural Heritage's Advice To Government. ( Memento of February 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Report from SNH from 2000, PDF, 141 kB (English).
- ↑ Planning etc. (Scotland) Act 2006, Part 10, Section 50 on the UK Government's Legislative Server, accessed August 10, 2018
- ↑ Information on the framework conditions on the SNH website, accessed on August 10, 2018 (English).