Abstract

An increasing number of land use conflicts involving planning practice, equine activities and businesses and neighbouring landowners and residents have occurred in Swedish peri-urban areas. In a case study the disturbances and benefits arising from horses experienced by residents in two different areas of Sweden were investigated, together with a study of the attitudes of local planners to horse keeping near residential areas and subsequent policy documents. The results from the study found few conflicts between residents and horse keeping but revealed diverging practice and policy between municipalities, which may create a legal insecurity for the involved stakeholders. The results were mirrored in the broader perspective of spatial planning facing new challenges in the wake of the urban-rural diffusion. This was obtained by means of current planning theory discourse in examining the effects of set-back distance from rural contexts when applied in urban areas. The study illustrated a planning problem where the planning tools for managing this issue has been built on the urban- rural dichotomy providing unclear planning practice and policy in a peri-urban context. The result may be used to elucidate the character of this issue in the search for suitable planning tools in peri urban areas. Keywords Equine activity, land use, comprehensive planning, conflict, peri-urban

Keywords

Equine activity; land use; comprehensive planning; conflic; peri-urban

Published in

Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography
2010, Volume: 110, number: 1, pages: 81-98
Publisher: The Royal Danish Geograpyical Society

SLU Authors

• Elgåker, Hanna

  • Department of Rural Buildings and Animal Husbandry [LBT], Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Pinzke, Stefan

  • Department of People and Society, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Lindholm, Gunilla

  • Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Nilsson, Christer

  • Department of Rural Buildings and Animal Husbandry [LBT], Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Sustainable Development Goals

Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable


UKÄ Subject classification

Landscape Architecture
Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use
Agricultural Science


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00167223.2010.10669498

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/30204