Question reference: S4W-28902
- Asked by: Rob Gibson, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 9 December 2015
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Current status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 5 January 2016
Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to review areas designated as core wild land.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not have any plans to ask Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) to review its 2014 map of wild land areas, which are not a statutory designation.
SNH provided advice to the Scottish Government at the time when the map was published and noted that frequent review was unlikely to be necessary. The areas of wild land on the 2014 map would remain important in the national context unless a significant development or land use change took place.