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Decision details
High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (ANOB) Management Plan
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Decisions:
The Assistant Director Regeneration and Culture submitted a report to seek Full Council approval to formally adopt the High Weald Area of Outstanding Beauty (AONB) Management Plan 2019-2024 and its supporting papers. On adoption, the Management Plan will be this Council’s policy for the management of the AONB area and for the carrying out of our functions in relation to it.
The High Weald was designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in 1983 and extends across 11 District and four County authorities. The High Weald Joint Advisory Committee, which comprises elected member representatives from the partner local authorities, undertakes the preparation and review of the Management Plan on behalf of the 15 local authorities with land in the High Weald AONB. The Council, as one of the 15 partner authorities, makes an annual contribution of £1,500 towards the costs of the High Weald Joint Advisory Committee. The Council directly inputs into the work of the High Weald as the Council has a representative on the Joint Advisory Committee and the Management Board.
The 2019-2024 Management Plan is structured around a vision, the history of the High Weald, and the Plan’s preparation, implementation and monitoring.
There are detailed chapters on the High Weald’s beauty covering: geology (landform, water systems & climate); settlements; routeways; woodland; field & heath; and land-based economy & rural life as well as other qualities. For each of these themes there is a vision and a number of objectives (management policies) aimed at tackling the priorities issues identified.
Under rule 13.3, the recommendations of the report were agreed without being called for discussion.
RESOLVED that:
1. Cabinet recommends that Full Council agrees the adoption of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Beauty (AONB) Management Plan 2019-2024 and its supporting papers and authorises the High Weald Joint Advisory Committee to publish the Management Plan on behalf of Hastings Borough Council.
The reason for this decision was:
Local authorities with land in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) are legally obliged under Section 89(2) of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 to prepare and publish a plan which ‘formulates their policy for the management of the area and for the carrying out of their functions in relation to it’.
Where AONBs cross administrative boundaries, local authorities are required to act jointly to prepare the plan (S89 (11)(b)). The High Weald Joint Advisory Committee undertakes the preparation and review of the Management Plan on behalf of the 15 local authorities with land in the High Weald AONB.
An AONB management plan is a locally prepared and agreed statement of public policy for managing landscapes of national importance and their associated nature conservation and other values. The plan is reviewed every five years.
Report author: Victoria Conheady
Publication date: 10/04/2019
Date of decision: 04/02/2019
Decided at meeting: 04/02/2019 - Cabinet
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