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Protected
Landscape Management Plans database
Management plans are widely recognized as a vital tool
for effective management of our landscape resource and
all AONBs and National Parks in the South West have management
plans. The Plans:
- Highlight the special qualities and the enduring
significance of the designated area, and the importance
of its different features,
- Present an integrated vision for the future of
the designated area as a whole, in the light of
national,
regional and local priorities,
- Set out agreed policies incorporating specific
objectives which will help secure that vision,
- Identify what needs to be done, by whom, and
when, in order to achieve these outcomes,
- State how the condition of the designated
area and the effectiveness of its management
will be
monitored.
The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (CRoW) raised
the profile of AONBs and made it obligatory for local
authorities and conservation boards to produce new AONB
Management Plans for their areas, and to revise these
Plans at regular intervals. In practice, these Plans
have been produced with and through a wide partnership
of local organizations and interests.
The purpose of this database
For those wishing to understand what makes our 15 Protected
Landscapes in the South West special there is no substitute
for going directly to the individual Management Plans.
This database is intended to help partners access a summary
of the issues and actions found in the AONB and National
Park Management Plans. The database has been developed
by Birkbeck College as part of an analysis
of the common issues and actions that have a arisen as
a result of the management planning processes that has
taken place in the 13 South West Areas of Outstanding
Natural Beauty (AONBs) and 2 National Parks.
The database is a valuable tool for
both for AONB and NP Managers, Local Authority partners
as well as a wide range of regional
agencies and bodies. The database can be used to:
The themes chosen help connect the Protected Landscape
Management Plan process with the Regional Environment
Strategy themes and standard Government themes. Both
can be used as the basis of a search. It is also possible
to use the database to see the issues impacting on the
regions Countryside Character Areas and how Protected
Landscape Management Plan actions are helping to deliver
management objectives.
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