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Local Authorities and Sustainable Peatland Management: Current Opportunities and Future Possibilities for Local Approaches
Peatland Restoration - involves activities such as such as improving the vegetation; improving the hydrology (or ‘rewetting’ as it is more commonly known); and/or removing trees and shrubs.
Planning Condition - conditions placed on a grant of planning permission by the decision- making body.
Planning and Environment Directorate Wales (PEDW) – the body that deals with planning applications designated as Developments of National Significance. PEDW takes decisions on these applications in most cases on behalf of Welsh Government.
Planning Policy Wales (PPW) – the document setting out national planning policy for Wales.
Pre-Assessed Areas for Wind Energy – areas identified in Future Wales in which there is a presumption in favour of large-scale wind energy development (including repowering).
Public Rights of Way (PROWs) - provide public access to routes for walkers, cyclists, horse riders and vehicles depending on their designation.
Resilient Ecological Networks - Networks of habitat in good ecological condition linking protected sites and other biodiversity hotspots across the wider landscape, providing maximum benefit for biodiversity and well-being. River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) - provide a framework for water management that addresses not just direct regulation of water quality, but wider issues of land management relevant to this objective.
Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) – a legal designation for sites that are of special interest by virtue of their flora, fauna or geological or physiographical features.
Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) – a legal designation for sites that are of importance to a national network of sites that support rare/vulnerable natural habitats and/or endangered species of wild fauna and flora that need to be maintained or restored to favourable conservation status. Sustainable Management of Natural Resources (SMNR) – using natural resources in a way and at a rate that promotes the maintenance and enhancement of the resilience of ecosystems and the benefits they provide to current and future generations.
Sustainable Peatland Management (SPM) – involves maintaining and enhancing the condition state of peatlands, including restoring more heavily degraded areas of peatlands.
UK Climate Change Committee (UKCCC) - provides independent advice on tackling climate change across the UK.
Wellbeing of Future Generations (WFG) – this term arises from the Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015. This provides that Welsh Government and all public authorities in Wales with a duty to create objectives to pursue seven statutory ‘wellbeing’ goals.
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