News & Events  |  Posted September 14, 2025

How Scotland’s Landscape Charter helps our communities play a role in changing our behaviour to help make the landscapes where people live and work thrive.

Listen to Barry Fisher, Chief Executive of Keep Scotland Beautiful, on the Charter’s significance in ensuring the rights of access to all to great quality landscapes as well as changing our behaviour to help  make our landscapes thrive. Help us in advance of our stakeholder event on 30th October 2025 in Edinburgh ( details to follow) by taking the survey …

Listen to Barry Fisher, Chief Executive of Keep Scotland Beautiful, on the Charter’s significance in ensuring the rights of access to all to great quality landscapes as well as changing our behaviour to help  make our landscapes thrive. Help us in advance of our stakeholder event on 30th October 2025 in Edinburgh ( details to follow) by taking the survey …

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News & Events  |  Posted September 8, 2025

How the Charter can help collaborative work to deliver equitable access to a healthy environment for our communities

Listen to Paul Johnston, Chief Executive of Public Health Scotland,  on the Charter’s importance in helping collaborative working to support the health and well being of Scotland’s communities by ensuring everyone has equitable access to a healthy environment. This is the third of our series of talking heads videos from people and organisations that demonstrate the tangible importance of the …

Listen to Paul Johnston, Chief Executive of Public Health Scotland,  on the Charter’s importance in helping collaborative working to support the health and well being of Scotland’s communities by ensuring everyone has equitable access to a healthy environment. This is the third of our series of talking heads videos from people and organisations that demonstrate the tangible importance of the …

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News & Events  |  Posted August 29, 2025

How the Charter helps deliver quality design at a landscape scale for the communities of Scotland

How Scotland’s Landscape Charter helps A&DS deliver quality design at a landscape scale for the communities of Scotland Listen to Danny McKendry, Principal Landscape Architect, on the importance of the Charter in helping improve the prosperity and health and well being of the communities of Scotland. This is the second of our series of talking heads videos from people and …

How Scotland’s Landscape Charter helps A&DS deliver quality design at a landscape scale for the communities of Scotland Listen to Danny McKendry, Principal Landscape Architect, on the importance of the Charter in helping improve the prosperity and health and well being of the communities of Scotland. This is the second of our series of talking heads videos from people and …

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News & Events  |  Posted August 28, 2025

Scotland’s Landscape Charter – Take the survey towards developing an Action Plan

To help build momentum towards the SLA’s stakeholder event on the 30th October 2025 in Edinburgh we are asking you to complete a short survey to help us understand your priorities for the development of a short term (5 year) Charter action plan –  Start the Survey below

To help build momentum towards the SLA’s stakeholder event on the 30th October 2025 in Edinburgh we are asking you to complete a short survey to help us understand your priorities for the development of a short term (5 year) Charter action plan –  Start the Survey below

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News & Events  |  Posted August 19, 2025

How the Charter helps deliver climate resilient communities

Listen to Gillian Dick, Spatial Planning Manager, Research and Development, Glasgow City Council on the importance of the Charter in helping deliver climate resilient communities. This is the first of our series of talking heads videos from people and organisations that demonstrate:- the tangible importance of the Charter to their work objectives; how the Charter with its vision and principles …

Listen to Gillian Dick, Spatial Planning Manager, Research and Development, Glasgow City Council on the importance of the Charter in helping deliver climate resilient communities. This is the first of our series of talking heads videos from people and organisations that demonstrate:- the tangible importance of the Charter to their work objectives; how the Charter with its vision and principles …

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News & Events  |  Posted July 31, 2025

Scotland’s Landscape Charter – Developing the Action Plan

In June 2025 Scotland’s Landscape Charter was launched and endorsed by the Scottish Government. It highlights the importance of our landscapes to people, place and nature. The SLA recognise that good policy and tools exist around land and landscapes and we aim to reinforce this in a short term action plan reviewed annually. Our next stakeholder event will be held …

In June 2025 Scotland’s Landscape Charter was launched and endorsed by the Scottish Government. It highlights the importance of our landscapes to people, place and nature. The SLA recognise that good policy and tools exist around land and landscapes and we aim to reinforce this in a short term action plan reviewed annually. Our next stakeholder event will be held …

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News & Events  |  Posted June 20, 2025

Scotland’s Landscape Charter – Launched

The SLA are pleased to announce the launch of Scotland’s Landscape Charter 2025.  The Charter is about promoting awareness of the critical contribution of landscapes to all our lives and the action required to maximise the many benefits they bring now and for the future. It is based on an overarching vision that, as a nation, we all cherish our …

The SLA are pleased to announce the launch of Scotland’s Landscape Charter 2025.  The Charter is about promoting awareness of the critical contribution of landscapes to all our lives and the action required to maximise the many benefits they bring now and for the future. It is based on an overarching vision that, as a nation, we all cherish our …

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News & Events  |  Posted April 16, 2025

Land Use for Net Zero update Spring 2025

LUNZ at a glance- overview of 2025 activities for Topic Advisory Groups (TAG) and Work Packages (WG) LUNZ-at-a-glance.-2025

LUNZ at a glance- overview of 2025 activities for Topic Advisory Groups (TAG) and Work Packages (WG) LUNZ-at-a-glance.-2025

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News & Events  |  Posted February 10, 2025

New Scotland’s Landscape Charter – endorsed by the Scottish Government: February 2025

The SLA are delighted to announce that the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands, Mairi Gougeon, has endorsed the final draft of the updated Scotland’s Landscape Charter:- ‘the draft revised Charter helpfully highlights the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change and points to landscape considerations being a key element in decision making if we are …

The SLA are delighted to announce that the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands, Mairi Gougeon, has endorsed the final draft of the updated Scotland’s Landscape Charter:- ‘the draft revised Charter helpfully highlights the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change and points to landscape considerations being a key element in decision making if we are …

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News & Events  |  Posted January 29, 2025

Scotland’s Landscape Charter Update – January 2025

The SLA are delighted to announce that Nature Scot have endorsed the revised Charter and we are engaging positively with Heritage Environment Scotland and the Scottish Government on their support also. The aim is to launch the new digital online document and associated case studies in Spring 2025 with a follow up workshop event with our landscape community Charter to …

The SLA are delighted to announce that Nature Scot have endorsed the revised Charter and we are engaging positively with Heritage Environment Scotland and the Scottish Government on their support also. The aim is to launch the new digital online document and associated case studies in Spring 2025 with a follow up workshop event with our landscape community Charter to …

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