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Joined-up Land-use Plan approved for Orléans and outskirts

Joined-up Land-use Plan approved for Orléans and outskirts

Published on 02 March 2009 - Updated 22 December 2010
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Landscape and development

The Joined-up Land-use Plan (SCOT), an inter-authority planning document introduced by the Solidarity and Urban Renewal Act (SRU), sets general outlines for a whole area’s properly-balanced organisation for twenty years. The one for Orléans and its surrounding area was approved by the Council on 18 December 2008.

The SCOT consists of three documents:

the Introductory Report
the Planning and Sustainable Development Project (PADD)
the General Outline Document (DOG)

It takes account of the fact that UNESCO has put one part of the territory concerned on its World Heritage List under "evolving cultural landscapes".

The Planning and Sustainable Development Project (PADD) says that the Orléans area's image and pulling power will be enhanced by working to make the most of its landscape and heritage, especially around the Loire, the Loiret, the Orléans Canal and the city approaches, by means of projects including one called "The Loire - a Web of Green".

That project began in 2002: "The Loire - a Web of Green" focuses on the river and aims to improve local people's quality of life and surroundings by rehabilitating and reviving the Loire, the Loiret and the Canal.

In Part 3 of the General Outline Document, entitled "Promoting quality in the environment", the SCOT is meant to be based on landscape issues, as well as environmental and risk management ones, so as to promote and make the most of this area by means of environment-friendly projects:

Conserving regional identities
- protection of "ordinary" heritage
- protection of landscapes and ecosystems
Rehabilitating the landscape at the city outskirts and on the main urban thoroughfares
Making the most of the natural heritage: the "Web of Green and Blue"
- Continue work under the "Loire: a Web of Green" project
- Raise awareness of the value of streams and rivers as ecological corridors
- Keep the green belt
- Develop stronger protection for the "wooded green belt"
- Make sure farmland stays farmland