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Reviewing the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Management Plan.
. The Kent Downs AONB is a much valued landscape of national importance. The Management Plan which was published in April 2004 is now being reviewed. The review has four stages:
Stage 1. Review Existing Plan – with partners and stakeholders, consider the existing Management Plan and propose areas for review. This was completed in October 2007.
Stage 2. Make draft revisions – on the basis of the information gathered in the review, a draft Management Plan revision was published in May 2008.
Stage 3. Consultation – Consult on the draft Management Plan. This was carried out in the spring/ summer of 2008 and a revised draft prepared in October 2008.
Stage 4. Confirmation and adoption – Finalise Management Plan and taken through formal adoption stage by each local authority, publication and deposit with Secretary of State by April 09.
We are now starting the 4th Stage of this review to finalise the Management Plan and get adopted by each local authority.
Strategic Environmental Assessment and Sustainability Appraisal. To see a copy of this please click:
Environmental Report
Appendices
Management Plan Review Final Draft Document
Click here for a copy of the text of the first revision for adoption.
Consultation Comments
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Draft Management
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Appropriate Assessment of the Kent Downs AONB Management Plan 1st Revision.
The European Habitat regulations require that the revised AONB management plan is assessed to ensure that the objectives and the policies of the plan do not have a significant negative effect sites which have European importance for their wildlife – Natura 2000 sites. This is an ‘Appropriate Assessment’. Where there are significant positive effects anticipated these are noted but there is clearly no need to mitigate against these. In the assessment each policy of the revised plan has been considered to determine, on a precautionary basis, whether they are likely to have a significant negative effect or not. This assessment has been carried out by the Kent Downs AONB Unit on behalf of the Joint Advisory Committee or ‘competent authority’. To verify the assessment of the AONB Unit, Natural England has been involved at all stages and has confirmed the assessments made. An Appropriate Assessment is required before the management plan can be adopted by each local authority. The conclusions of this Appropriate Assessment are that there are no significant negative effects to sites of European importance for wildlife and therefore no mitigation plans are required.
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