SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)·Page 77·6.172
Regional Strategic Objectives for Natural Heritage
The objectives are to protect and enhance natural heritage as part of sustainable development, meet international and national environmental obligations, and support rural renewal and urban regeneration through appropriate development.
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;
• further sustainable development by ensuring that natural heritage and associated diversity is conserved and enhanced as an integral part of social, economic and environmental development;
• assist in meeting international (including European), national and local responsibilities and obligations in the protection and enhancement of the natural heritage;
• contribute to rural renewal and urban regeneration by ensuring developments
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