Article 2 shall be amended to add the following wording: “Protected areas of regional and local significance shall be taken into consideration in the process of elaboration of territorial planning complex schemes, land survey and regional land-use planning”.

Amends: Regional Law No. 88-OZ “On protected areas”. (2009-05-14)

This Law provides for land use and development planning in Guernsey and control over development. Its purposes are to protect and enhance, and to facilitate the sustainable development of, the physical environment of Guernsey, to protect natural beauty to preserve and promote biological diversity. A Strategic Land Planning Group shall be appointed from various state offices and shall Strategic Land Planning Group be involved in the preparation or amendment of the Strategic Land Use Plan.

This Regional Law regulates relations in the sphere of conservation, management and promotion of cultural heritage. Boundaries of the objects of cultural heritage, land tenure regime within the aforesaid boundaries and land use planning arrangements shall be validated by the Regional Government. Boundaries of protected areas containing objects of historical and cultural heritage shall be established and mapped in accordance with substantiating documentation.

Amended by: Regional Law No. 771 amending Regional Law No. 547 “On cultural heritage”. (2016-03-11)

This Ordinance amends the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958.In section 2 new definitions for “protected area” and “regulated area” have been inserted.

This Regional Law regulates management and protection of land as a basis for vital activity of the population. Regional administration shall have the following competence in the sphere of land relations: (a) enforcement of the federal land legislation; (b) expropriation, including bailout, of plots of land for public needs; (c) elaboration and realization of regional programs for land conservation; (d) management and disposal of land plots pertaining to regional property; and (e) other plenary powers not pertaining to federal bodies or local government.

This Regional Law shall be applicable to all categories of protected areas of regional significance constituted either with expropriation of land areas from land owners or without it. Conservation and management of protected areas shall be based upon the following principles: (a) priority of conservation of protected areas with regard to management thereof; (b) priority of management of protected areas for scientific research purposes; (c) prohibition of any economic activity incompatible with the regime of protected areas.

This Regional Law regulates relations in the sphere of land-use planning and issuance of authorization for construction. Land-use planning shall take into consideration ecological factors with a view of ensuring sustainable development of the territories. In case of absence of land-use planning documentation local government shall not be allowed land reservation, expropriation or transfer of land from one category to another. Land-use planning documentation shall contain mapping of the territory, including mapping of the boundaries of protected areas and mapping of agricultural land.

This Regional Law establishes jurisdictional competence of regional and local executive bodies in the sphere of land tenure related to land areas state ownership of which is undelimited. It shall not be applicable to agricultural land and to allotment of land pertaining to federal and municipal property.

This Law provides conditions by which compensation for restrictions on economic activities in protected territories established by the State or local governments shall be granted and the procedures for granting such compensation. Compensation granted for restrictions on economic activities in protected territories shall be divided as follows: (a) reimbursement; and (b) exchange of a land parcel situated in a protected territory to an equivalent land parcel owned by the State or local government.

This Regional Law regulates the issues of conservation, management and state protection of the objects of cultural heritage. Regional Government shall be responsible for registration of the objects of cultural heritage, modification of the status thereof, establishment of land tenure and mapping of the boundaries of land areas containing objects of cultural heritage, and establishment of historical and cultural reserves with the status of protected areas.

This Regional Law regulates composition, the modalities of elaboration and preparation of land use planning schemes that must include projected extension and location of protected areas and boundaries and changes of the boundaries of agricultural land.

Amended by: Regional Law No. 764-OZ amending Regional Law No. 773-OZ “On land use planning”. (2015-07-29)

La presente Ley declara como Área Silvestre Protegida, con la categoría de manejo Reserva Ecológica, al Banco San Miguel y la Bahía de Asunción y sus lechos y álveos, quedando sujeta el área a las disposiciones de la Ley Nº 352/94 y sus reglamentaciones. La Secretaría del Ambiente se encargará de elaborar un plan de manejo, en el que se deberá incluir la delimitación de una zona de amortiguamiento.