This Law provides for land use and development planning in Guernsey and control over development. Its purposes are to protect and enhance, and to facilitate the sustainable development of, the physical environment of Guernsey, to protect natural beauty to preserve and promote biological diversity. A Strategic Land Planning Group shall be appointed from various state offices and shall Strategic Land Planning Group be involved in the preparation or amendment of the Strategic Land Use Plan.

This Law provides rules relative to improvements made by tenants or landlords under a lease of an agricultural holding. The tenant shall in principle be entitled on the termination of the tenancy to receive compensation in accordance with the provisions of the Second Schedule, for any improvement carried out by the tenant as specified in Part I of the First Schedule or any act of husbandry carried out by the tenant on the holding as specified in Part II of the First Schedule. If the landlord carries out such improvement he or she may raise the rent according to provisions of this Law.