SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)·Page 49·6.67
Sustainable development in the countryside - planning and environmental balance
Planning policies must facilitate sustainable rural development while protecting the region's natural assets and the natural and built environment.
Planning and other environmental policies must therefore play their part in facilitating sustainable development in the countryside but not at the expense of the region's rich natural assets and not at the expense of the natural and built environment.
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