Abstract
This study clarified the meanings and the planning method of environment in the latest Structure Plans of major four Scottish city regions: Glasgow and the Clyde Valley, Edinburgh and the Lothian, Dundee and Angus, and Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, which keep rich natural and built heritages. As a result, it was confirmed that the Scottish Structure Plan is one of statutory frameworks for supporting the rich environmental assets because of the following reasons. 1) Planning philosophy: the importance of the policies related to environment, and the plan as means to lead good developments that contribute toward changing environmental resources into environmental assets. 2) Planning method that is supporting 1): the importance of the plan context (clear SP's rolls and responsibilities), and specifying the basic conditions that enable to change environmental resources into environmental assets by the practical policies and key diagram which prepare concrete reasons and assessment criteria for development control.
