Management guidance and publications
Below is a host of downloadable guidance that provide useful and practical information on various aspects of landscape management of the Kent Downs and other relevant publications and plans.
Management guidance
- Kent Downs AONB Farm Diversification Toolkit
- Kent Downs AONB Farmstead Guidance
- Landscape Design Handbook
- Managing Land for Horses – a guide to good practice in the Kent Downs AONB
- Kent Downs AONB Rural Streets and Lanes: a design handbook
Land Managers Pack – by chapter
- Chalk grassland management
- Heathland management
- Hedgerow management
- Marshland management
- Meadow grassland management
- Orchards management
- Ponds management
- Rivers management
- Woodland management
Orchards management guidance
- Grafting & budding for traditional orchards
- Planning a traditional orchard
- Restoring a traditional orchard
Woodlands management guidance
- Ancient woodland restoration in the Kent Downs
- Coppicing in the Kent Downs
- Managing ash dieback in the Kent Downs
- Wild deer in the Kent Downs
- Woodland archaeology in the Kent Downs
Publications and plans
- Kent Downs AONB Management Plan 2021 – 2026 – current being adopted
- Kent Downs AONB Management Plan 2014 – 2019
- Kent Downs AONB Action Plan
- So much more than the view… England’s AONBs and National Parks