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People and Nature Network Green Infrastructure in the South Downs National Park and Wider South East PEOPLE AND NATURE NETWORK GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE SOUTH DOWNS NATIONAL PARK AND WIDER SOUTH EAST MARCH 2020 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AUTHORS This Network would not have been possible without the input and support of Sharon Bayne BSc (Hons) MSc MCIEEM, LLM CEnv, Blackwood Bayne Ltd many people. The authors would like to thank the members of the original with officers from the SDNPA. 2014 Technical Working Group, comprised of officers from: Val Hyland BA Dip LA (Hons) PGCert. UD CMLI V Hyland Associates Ltd. South Downs National Park Authority; Ray Drabble, Chris Paterson, Bruce Collinson, Chris Sculthorpe, Veronica East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Surrey County Councils and Craddock Brighton and Hove unitary authority; GIS mapping and EcoServ-GIS modelling provided by Andrew Lawson Wealden, East Hampshire, Mid Sussex, Adur and Worthing representing Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre, www.sxbrc.org.uk local authorities; Suggested citation: S.Bayne & V.Hyland (2016), People and Nature Environment Agency, Natural England, Historic England, Forestry Commission, Woodland Trust; Network, Green Infrastructure in the South Downs National Park and wider South East, Report for South Downs National Park Authority and Partners Country Land and Business Association, National Farmers Union; Brighton and Lewes Downs Biosphere, Arun and Rother Rivers Trust. SOUTH DOWNS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY In developing this Network the SDNPA has also worked closely with members South Downs Centre Cover image: of the Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire Local Nature Partnerships. North Street Egret’s Way shared path along the River Ouse. © Andrew Pickett/SDNPA Midhurst West Sussex GU29 9DH 01730 814810 © Crown copyright and database rights 2018 Ordnance Survey 100050083 CONTENTS CONTENTS A BRIEF HISTORY ....................................................................... 2 DEFICITS IN NATURAL GREENSPACE ..................................... 12 WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP ..................................................... 2 SOCIAL EQUALITY ............................................................... 13 1. INTRODUCTION TO THE PEOPLE AND NATURE NETWORK ............................................................... 3 BUILDING RESILIENCE .......................................................... 13 AIM OF THE NETWORK.......................................................... 5 URBAN EDGE PRESSURES .................................................... 13 OBJECTIVES OF THE NETWORK .............................................. 5 WORKING TOGETHER ......................................................... 13 THE NETWORK AREA ............................................................. 6 6. THE PEOPLE AND NATURE NETWORK ................................... 14 2. TAKING THE LEAD FROM NATURE .......................................... 7 STRATEGIC PRINCIPLES FOR THE PEOPLE AND NATURE NETWORK .......................................................................... 14 3. WHY TAKE A REGIONAL APPROACH ? ................................... 8 SPECIFIC PLACES FOR NATURAL CAPITAL INVESTMENT .......... 15 MAP OF PLANNED DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NETWORK AREA .. 9 CASE STUDY: NATURAL FLOOD MANAGEMENT – WINNALL 4. SUPPORTING THE ECONOMY .............................................. 11 MOORS NATURE RESERVE, WINCHESTER .............................. 18 5. KEY FINDINGS FROM THE RESEARCH .................................. 12 CASE STUDY: PETERSFIELD NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN, BRINGING THE PROTECTED LANDSCAPES AS A FOCUS .......................... 12 THE DOWNS TO THE TOWN................................................. 19 CASE STUDY: THE AQUIFER PARTNERSHIP (TAP) .................... 20 AN AREA OF INTER-RELATED ISSUES .................................... 12 THE NEED TO PLAN FOR CONNECTIVITY ............................... 12 1 PEOPLE AND NATURE NETWORK and creating a Natural Capital Investment Strategy (Sussex LNP). The Sussex A BRIEF HISTORY LNP work builds directly on and interlocks with the evidence in this report. In addition, the New Forest National Park has created a Green Halo Partnership and the Hampshire and IoW Wildlife Trust has launched a Wilder campaign. During the preparation of the South Downs Local Plan, stakeholders were asked whether the SDNP should develop a partnership approach to green Taken together with the evidence and principles in this People and Nature infrastructure planning. The positive response was overwhelming with 80 per Network report, all these initiatives are creating a dynamic and interconnected cent of respondents supporting this approach. approach for the wider SE. Government policy has also moved behind our local approach: with the publication of the Defra 25 Year Environment Plan, Net Gain In October 2014, the South Downs National Park Authority began the process of in the NPPF, the challenges of Climate Change and the need to achieve Net-zero developing a Green Infrastructure Framework for the South Downs National Park through nature-based solutions, and the proposals in the Environment Bill that all and wider sub-regional area with its partners. This has since been developed Local Planning authorities should produce a Nature Recovery Strategy. as a People and Nature Network (PANN) and now includes the other members of the South East and East Protected Landscape group (SEEPL) – Chichester The Protected Landscapes (National Parks & AONBs), and the Local Nature Harbour AONB, High Weald AONB, Surrey Hills AONB, Kent Downs AONB, Partnerships (Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire & IoW, and Kent) will continue to work Cotswold Hills AONB, Chiltern Hills AONB, North Wessex Downs AONB, Isle closely together to integrate these initiatives and to share resources, knowledge of Wight AONB, Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB, Norfolk Coast AONB, the and expertise. Broads Authority and the New Forest National Park. Working with a range of local authority, community, charitable and business partners, we want to establish a sub regional network for people and nature which delivers benefits not only to the environment but also to the development of better places in which to live, work and invest. We want to ensure that planning WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP for nature and people follows key principles which protect and enhance natural services, habitats, climate change adaptation, landscape connectivity, social The protected landscapes of the south east are increasingly the green oasis of the inclusion and equality and economic prosperity. sub region. The PANN seeks to achieve coordinated and strategically planned This document is an introduction to how this coordinated and cross-sectoral provision for green infrastructure and natural ecosystem services for communities approach to environmental master planning and regeneration has been and nature throughout the entire region within and beyond the boundaries of the developed within the original study area in 2014. protected areas. Since this work began, a number of other initiatives have emerged across the south east (SE) which are complementary to it. The Local Nature Partnerships for Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire/IoW, all of which the SDNPA works closely with, have been particularly active – projects include mapping ecological networks (Hampshire/IoW LNP), investigating financing mechanisms (Surrey LNP) 2 1. INTRODUCTION TO THE PEOPLE AND NATURE NETWORK 1. INTRODUCTION TO THE PEOPLE AND NATURE NETWORK 1.1 This document called the People and Nature 1.2 We have analysed a wide range of evidence 1.3 The research has also found that there are Network (PANN) sets out how a wide range of to develop a series of key priorities and principles hotspots in the study area where a number of partners can work together to plan positively for the 1st phase of the PANN area. From these issues coalesce to inhibit nature and natural for nature and natural services within and high level principles more detailed and localized processes. We have called these areas ‘Natural surrounding the protected landscapes of the south strategies, plans, projects, and their delivery can Capital Investment Areas’ (NCIAs). The first 12 east. This is in recognition that nature, and the be developed in the future. In this way partners NCIAs are shown on figure 1. Each of these areas provision of natural ecosystem services do not across the region will work together to achieve the has a unique set of environmental challenges follow administrative boundaries. Figure 1 is a shared aims of the Network partnership. and there is no prescribed methodology for map of the PANN area how to address these. Each NCIA requires a bespoke approach. Over time as the research and evidence is extended it is likely that further NCIAs will be identified. Outdoor learning area at Botany Bay Conservation Project, Duncton, West Sussex. © SDNPA 3 PEOPLE AND NATURE NETWORK FIGURE 1: NATURAL CAPITAL INVESTMENT AREAS (NCIAs) Cambridgeshire Warwickshire Bedford No. Name Herefordshire Worcestershire Northamptonshire Milton Keynes 1 WinchesterSuffolk and Itchen Central Bedfordshire 2 East Hants and Heathlands 3 South Hampshire Luton 4 Rother Catchments Buckinghamshire Gloucestershire Hertfordshire 5 Horsham and Crawley Essex 6 Haywards Heath and Burgess Hill Oxfordshire 7 Hailsham to Eastbourne 8 Coastal Plain 9 Arun Blue-Green Corridor 10 Adur Blue-Green Corridor Swindon Southend-on-Sea11 Lewes Connections South Slough Thurrock Gloucestershire Greater London Windsor and Authority 12 Coastal Communities Maidenhead Medway West Reading Berkshire Bracknell Wokingham Forest Bath and North East Somerset
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