Strategy for Cornwall National Landscape

It is important to frame the Cornwall AONB Strategy in the context of international, national, regional and local priorities and goals.

Strategy for Cornwall National Landscape

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What is The Management Plan

Where land meets the sea, Porthchapel Beach, Porthcurno - Caleb Giddens
Where land meets the sea, Porthchapel Beach, Porthcurno – Caleb Giddens

The Management Plan is a shared strategy for those who live, work and visit the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. 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 AONB.

Section 85

“The Management Plan sets out the vision of the Partnership for the Cornwall AONB and its management aims over the five-year plan period.”

Aligning with Global, National and Local Strategies

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.

At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries – developed and developing – in a global partnership. They recognise that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.

It is important to frame the Cornwall AONB Strategy in the context of international, national, regional and local priorities and goals.

How the Cornwall AONB is aligned with global, national and local targets and goals

Global Target

Good health and wellbeing

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.

National

HM Gov: 25 yr Environment Plan

  • Enhanced beauty, heritage and engagement with the natural environment

Landscapes Review

  • Landscapes for Everyone

Local

  • Health & Wellbeing Strategy
  • Heritage Strategy
  • WHS Management Plan

CNL – Aims, Policies and Objectives

Global Target

Clean water and sanitation

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

National

HM Gov: 25 yr Environment Plan

  • Clean and plentiful water
  • Reducing the risks of harm from environmental hazards

Landscapes Review

  • Landscapes Alive for Nature & Beauty

Local

  • Climate Change Action Plan
  • Environmental Growth Strategy
  • Nature Recovery Strategy

CNL – Aims, Policies and Objectives

Global Target

Sustainable cities and communities

Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

National

HM Gov: 25 yr Environment Plan

  • Using resources from nature more sustainably and efficiently

Landscapes Review

  • Landscapes for Everyone

Local

  • LEP Strategy

CNL – Aims, Policies and Objectives

Global Target

Responsible consumption and production

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

National

HM Gov: 25 yr Environment Plan

  • Reducing the risks of harm from environmental hazards
  • Using resources from nature more sustainably and efficiently

Landscapes Review

  • Landscapes for Everyone
  • Living Landscapes

Local

  • Nature Recovery Strategy
  • Climate Change Action Plan

CNL – Aims, Policies and Objectives

Global Target

Climate Action

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

National

HM Gov: 25 yr Environment Plan

  • Reducing the risks of harm from environmental hazards
  • Using resources from nature more sustainably and efficiently

Landscapes Review

  • Landscapes for Everyone
  • Living Landscapes

Local

  • Climate Change Action Plan
  • Local Flood Risk Management Strategy

CNL – Aims, Policies and Objectives

Global Target

Life below water

Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.

National

HM Gov: 25 yr Environment Plan

  • Clean and plentiful water
  • Thriving plants and wildlife
  • Reducing the risks of harm from environmental hazards

Landscapes Review

  • Living in Landscapes

Local

  • Environmental Growth Strategy
  • Nature Recovery Strategy
  • State Of Nature

CNL – Aims, Policies and Objectives

Global Target

Life on land

Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

National

HM Gov: 25 yr Environment Plan

  • Thriving plants and wildlife
  • Reducing the risks of harm from environmental hazards
  • Local nature recovery

Landscapes Review

  • Landscapes Alive for Nature & Beauty

Local

  • Environmental Growth Strategy
  • CIOS Nature Recovery Strategy
  • State Of Nature

CNL – Aims, Policies and Objectives

Our Priorities

Through effective Partnership working the protected landscape plays a crucial role in nature recovery, resilience to climate change and conservation of the historic and natural environment, by consideration of four key priorities:

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.

Priority-People
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.

Priority-Place
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.

Priority-Climate