AlUla Framework Plan & Guidelines

The Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) established to capitalise upon the region’s extraordinary cultural, heritage and natural assets, and to transform AlUla county into one of the world’s premier destinations for nature, culture and heritage, welcoming millions of visitors.

The Framework Plan and Guidelines will drive the direction of growth to 2035 as well as support its delivery and implementation, while also providing measurable biodiversity net gains and protecting extensive areas of landscape, to provide a sustainable framework that supports AlUla’s transformation into a global destination.

A fundamental consideration is AlUla’s most spectacular and dramatic native landscape integrating unique geological, cultural, agricultural and heritage features. As such, the FPG establishes the parameters to protect and celebrate these existing qualities, setting out a series of principles and supporting objectives to enhance and create a balance between future development, landscape, and wildlife. New planning policy and guidelines prepared reinforce the control of future development.

The Framework Plan and Guidelines for AlUla provide a robust and exemplary model for sustainable development. It provides a plan for enhancement and connectivity of biodiversity at a grand scale, having tremendous benefits not only in AlUla, but across Saudi Arabia and globally.