ABSTRACT
While Chapter Eight looked at developing law and policy in relation to pollution control by reference to one area of such control - air pollution and air quality - the present chapter looks at one area of amenity law, landscape regulation. Landscape is undoubtedly a highly subjective issue where comparisons with other jurisdictions and their attitude to law and policy is that much more difficult, compared with the area of pollution control examined in Chapter 8. Much of the emphasis is on the attitude to law and policy as it emerges in England, and the European Community although reference is also made to the position in the United States and Canada. Where the United Kingdom is concerned there are considerable similarities in the approach to landscape regulation although devolution has allowed England to develop its own raft of law and policy. That law and policy and its development shows that concerns for landscape are found in many disparate areas including development control under planning legislation, nature conservation, agriculture and the coastline.
