ABSTRACT
As has been noted in Chapter 6, strategic planning for countryside recreation at the local-authority level has two principal forms. Within the development plan process, all structure plans in England and Wales contain policies for countryside recreation, although their form and content vary considerably. Since 1988 a series of countryside strategies and countryside recreation strategies has also been produced at the county level, in response to a number of stimuli such as agricultural change, and the Countryside Commission’s ‘Enjoying the Countryside’ (1987b, 1987c) policies. These provide an informal strategic planning counterpart to development plans (Curry, 1992a), and allow the consideration of non-land-use issues.
