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
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d’Agglomération Orléans Val de Loire
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