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Policies

Policies and objectives for the AONB strategy.

Policy PD-P13

Support the use of local vernacular stone and other building materials used in vernacular ways within built development and infrastructure. If necessary, by the small-scale and sensitive reworking of local…

Policy PD-P12

Quarrying and mineral extraction within the AONB or within its setting should conserve and enhance the landscape character and natural beauty of the area. Support the landscape restoration of existing…

Policy PD-P11

Any development in, or within the setting of, the AONB must be sustainable development that: Particular care should be taken to ensure that development outside the AONB does not harm…

Policy PD-P10

Support appropriate landscape-led site selection and design of new telecommunication and power infrastructure. Require such development to comply with the Code of Best Practice on Mobile Network Development in England…

Policy PD-P9

Support the sustainable management of recreational water sports, and commercial and operational maritime activities including shell fisheries and dredging in AONB estuaries and at the coast. Recognise the potential harm to…

Policy PD-P8

Support new tourism, leisure and recreation development that conserves and enhances the diverse local landscape characteristics of the various sections of the Cornwall AONB. Development of such facilities should respond…

Policy PD-P7

Support small scale developments that enable the identified needs of local people to be met in terms of provision of affordable housing, maintaining and enhancing local community amenities and services….

Policy PD-P6

Support appropriate characteristic green infrastructure within built development and the wider landscape, where this would follow the required landscape-led approach required for the AONB. 

Policy PD-P5

Seek to embed the statutory purposes of the AONB designation and AONB Management Plan policies, and requirement for a landscape-led approach in the all relevant Cornwall Council and other stakeholder…

Policy PD-P4

“Major development” should be refused in the Cornwall AONB subject to the tests set out in NPPF para 177.  This Management Plan, at Appendix ii, sets out the views of…