Cornwall National Landscape

Separated into 12 Sections

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Our Management Plan Review consultation is live! Have your say and help shape the next 5 years of Cornwall National Landscape - our public consultation closes on 3rd May

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Management Plan Review

We are inviting as many people as possible to comment on the existing Management Plan as part of our public consultation. Please help us to make the Cornwall National Landscape Management Plan a valuable, inclusive and document reflective of the local sections, people, communities and organisations who live, work and visit the National Landscape.

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Work experience opportunities

We are offering a limited number of work experience opportunities for students aged 16 – 18 years with the Cornwall National Landscape team. This could be just with the team, or we could look to arrange for you to also experience work with one of our 22 partners. Please complete the form and let us know what you’re interested in.

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Peatland restoration in the South West: A blueprint for climate resilience

Check out this article, written in partnership with The South West Peatland Partnership, highlighting the importance of protecting the amazing ecosystems of peatlands and what we are doing to help!

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Can you spare 5 minutes for Cornish hedges? Take the survey

Our Cornish hedges are more than boundaries — they’re wildlife corridors, carbon stores, and a defining feature of our landscape and rich farming history. We’re carrying out market testing to understand the costs involved in maintaining and building Cornish hedges, and we need your insight to shape future support.

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We are Cornwall National Landscape

Cornwall National Landscape is the new name for the protected landscape in Cornwall, endorsed by Natural England. We are still in law a designated area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB). Cornwall National Landscape is 12 separate sections making up one third of Cornwall and our primary purpose remains to conserve and enhance Natural Beauty.

Cornwall is a beautiful part of the world, with a world-renowned coastline, a UNESCO World Heritage Site designation, and a host of natural and heritage features that make it unique and such a draw for visitors and residents alike. National Landscapes are protected landscapes whose distinctive character and natural beauty are so outstanding that it is in the nation’s interest to safeguard them. As such they have been nationally designated by the same legislation as National Parks and have the same status and level of protection.

Cornwall National Landscape is unique, it is the only protected landscape that has 12 separate sections totalling almost a third of Cornwall – an area bigger than Dartmoor National Park.

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Our priorities

Our primary purpose is to conserve and enhance Natural Beauty.

Our priority is to lead and support projects which deliver under these four key priorities.

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People

People

Communities in the Cornwall National Landscape live entirely outside the main towns, within villages, hamlets and scattered farmsteads, dispersed throughout the landscape. It’s a mixed picture with areas of extreme wealth and also extreme deprivation.

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Place

Place

The beauty and character of the protected landscape is primarily owed to the stewardship of generations of farmers and landowners. It is essential to appreciate, understand and value its unique and diverse character and reinvest in this precious resource in order to continue to conserve and enhance it for future generations.

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Nature

Nature

Set against a backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of the natural world and ecological crisis the current global response to the effects of human impact on nature is insufficient. The ‘richest’ sites for wildlife are too few, too small, too degraded and too disconnected. Nature Recovery must take place to restore and reverse this ecological decline.

Priority-Nature
Climate

Climate

The climate emergency is the defining challenge of our time. In January 2019, Cornwall Council declared a climate emergency, recognising the need for urgent action to address the climate crisis. Climate change also poses threats to Cornwall National Landscape’s cultural heritage and heritage assets, including historic landscape and seascape.

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It's all part of the plan
The Management Plan 2022 – 2027

It's all part of the plan

A shared strategy for those who live, work and visit the Cornwall National Landscape. It provides guidance to help Government, statutory organisations and any public body to ensure they are fulfilling their Section 85* duty to ‘have regard to the purpose of conserving and enhancing the natural beauty’ of the protected landscape.

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Cornwall National Landscape: An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Management Plan Review 2025-27

The Cornwall National Landscape: An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Management Plan is a statutory plan. It is Cornwall Council’s duty under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 to produce the Management Plan and review it every five years. The Management Plan sets out the policies and strategy by which the National Landscape should be managed.

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Cornwall National Landscape: An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Management Plan Review 2025-27
St Gennys Cliff Castle

Project Spotlight

A Monumental Improvement project

The Monumental Improvement project has ensured that 40 Scheduled Monuments in the Cornwall National Landscape have been better identified, supported and enjoyed by a wide range of communities and visitors.

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Number of Scheduled Monuments removed from the Heritage At-Risk Register
7
Number of heritage sites with improved biodiversity and habitat creation
12
Total number of attendees from Guided Walks and Talks
620
Number engagements from outreach events
3,353

View Monuments on a timeline

See our shared Cornish monuments across time.
Monument Timeline

Section 6 – Godrevy to Portreath 48- Mary Poad – Thrift covered cliffs at Godrevy

39 Looking from Rough Tor to Garrow Tor – Matt Menhenett

55 Porthleven Pier in morn empty during Covid lockdown – Matt Menhenett

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