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CPRE Welcomes Euro Landscape Treaty

21 November 2006

The Campaign to Protect Rural England [1] warmly welcomes today’s (Tuesday) announcement that the UK has ratified the European Landscape Convention [2]. The UK is now one of 27 European countries to have ratified this international treaty.

The Convention aims to promote landscape protection, management and planning. It encourages public authorities to adopt policies and measures at local, regional and national level that will work in harmony with the landscape. [3]

Whether this landscape is within one of our beautiful National Parks, the village green or open fields, the ELC seeks protection of the landscapes that add to the character and beauty of an area.

CPRE Chief Executive Shaun Spiers said: ‘This important treaty recognises that conserving our varied and beautiful rural landscapes matters to us all. We look to the Government to come up with the policies, in land use planning and elsewhere, to ensure the Convention amounts to deeds as well as words.

NOTES FOR EDITORS

1. CPRE, the Campaign to Protect Rural England, is a charity which promotes the beauty, tranquillity and diversity of rural England. We advocate positive solutions for the long-term future of the countryside. Founded in 1926, we have 60,000 supporters and a branch in every county. President: Sir Max Hastings. Patron: Her Majesty The Queen.

2. The European Landscape Convention was adopted by the Committee of Minsters of the Council of Europe on 19 July 2000 and was opened for signatures on 20 October 2000. The United Kingdom signed the Convention on 21 February 2006 and it will become binding on 1 March 2007.

3. The European Landscape Convention commits the signatories to: integrating landscape into land use planning; involving the public in landscape matters; making national landscape laws and policies and developing awareness raising, education and assessment of landscapes, including urban landscapes. For full details of the European Landscape Convention, see the Council of Europe, European Landscape Convention website:
http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/Commun/ChercheSig.asp?NT=176&CM=8&DF=26/02/04&CL=ENG



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