SPPS Strategic Planning Policy Statement Edition 2 (December 2025)·Page 112
Open Space
Open space includes all publicly valuable open land and inland water bodies such as rivers, canals, lakes and reservoirs that offer sport, recreation, and visual amenity.
For the purposes of the SPPS, open space is taken to mean all open space of public value, including not just land, but also inland bodies of water such as rivers, canals, lakes and reservoirs which offer important opportunities for sport and outdoor recreation and can also act as a visual amenity.
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