National Landscape Strategy for Ireland

15th September 2011 - A National Landscape Strategy for Ireland

The Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht is in the process of preparing a National Landscape Strategy for Ireland. On 15th September 2011, Minister Jimmy Deenihan T.D. invited the public and interested parties to have their say on the Strategy Issues Paper. Minister Deenihan stated “the Strategy Issues Paper sets out Ireland’s aims and objectives with regard to landscape and sets it in the context of existing strategies, policies and objectives as well as the framework of the European Landscape Convention.”


The European Landscape Convention was adopted in 2000 as a new Council of Europe instrument with which to guide the management, planning and protection of all landscapes in Europe. Ireland has signed and ratified this Convention and the National Landscape Strategy for Ireland will be the vehicle used for complying with it.


The Minister went on to say, “the aim of a National Landscape Strategy will be to put in place a framework to achieve balance between the active management, forward-planning and protection of our internationally renowned landscape as a physical, economic and cultural asset. A core objective of a National Landscape Strategy is for the sustainable management of change affecting landscape and not the preservation or “freezing” of the landscape at a particular point in its continuing evolution.”


The closing date for submissions was 17th November 2011.


Download A National Landscape Strategy for Ireland – Strategy Issues Paper
View Wicklow Uplands Council’s submission on the Strategy Issues Paper