Williams, Audrey Ellinor Lucy "An Evaluation of Conditional Development Permits as a Development Control Option for Nova Scotia"

Environmental protection has been a subject of public concern in Canada since the turn of the century but the problem of implementing environmental policies effectively remains largely unsolved in Nova Scotia. The practice of land-use designation and zoning as a land-use control mechanism, with its prerequisite for mapping, does not seem to be sufficiently flexible to encompass the irregularities of environmental features. British development control methods, with their extensive use of conditions applied to planning consent, seem better able to protect environmental features without unduly restricting development. The systems in Nova Scotia and in England are examined separately and the practicality of adopting some aspects of the British development control system to protect environmental features in Nova Scotia, is discussed in the final chapter.

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