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Natural Heritage Overview and Strategic Context
6.168-6.171NI-wide·SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)
Northern Ireland is a region of dramatic landscape contrasts and subtle transitions. The inherent diversity of the underlying rocks, landforms and soils has been augmented by centuries of settlement a
conservationbiodiversityRegional Strategic Objectives for Natural Heritage
6.172NI-wide·SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)
The regional strategic objectives for natural heritage are to: • protect, conserve, enhance and restore the abundance, quality, diversity and distinctiveness of the region's natural heritage; • furthe
conservationbiodiversitysite-planningruralsustainabilityRegional Strategic Policy for Renewable and Low Carbon Energy Development
6.221NI-wide·SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)
In plan-making and decision-taking, planning authorities must give appropriate weight to climate considerations (including the target to generate 80% of electricity consumption from renewable sources
energyrenewable-energynet-zerobiodiversitysite-planningPlanning Considerations for Development Proposals
6.223NI-wide·SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)
on the following planning considerations: • public safety, such as roads, rail, and aviation safety (including communications interference); • human health; • residential amenity and impacts on other
site-planningvisual-amenitybiodiversityaccessBiodiversity Protection and Enhancement
6.226NI-wide·SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)
Climate change is adversely impacting nature and biodiversity. Development proposals should, therefore, protect and, where feasible, seek to enhance biodiversity which could contribute to strengthenin
biodiversitysite-planning