•    safeguard Lincoln's special character, identity and environmental quality by protecting the City's landscape features and setting and its diversity of wildlife habitats;

•    provide and safeguard sufficient publicly accessible open space to meet people's needs for organised and informal recreation;

•   retain trees and woodland, and encourage planting of more;

•   protect local identity across the City;

•   give people easy access to a range of natural or semi-natural areas close to their homes.