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Regional Environment Strategy OUR ENVIRONMENT, OUR FUTURE THE REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT STRATEGY FOR THE EAST OF ENGLAND Produced by a joint working group representing The East of England Regional Assembly and The East of England Environment Forum JULY 2003 ‘OUR ENVIRONMENT, OUR FUTURE’ THE REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT STRATEGY FOR THE EAST OF ENGLAND PRODUCED BY A JOINT WORKING GROUP REPRESENTING THE EAST OF ENGLAND REGIONAL ASSEMBLY AND THE EAST OF ENGLAND ENVIRONMENT FORUM JULY 2003 FOREWORD This first Environment Strategy for the East of England region catalogues and celebrates the many diverse environmental assets which will have a crucial bearing on the continued economic and social development of the Region. This Strategy will complement the other regional strategies within the Regional Assembly’s family of ‘Integrated Regional Strategies’. It deliberately makes key linkages between the environmental assets of the region, and economic development and social inclusion. The delivery of the Strategy will be the responsibility of Government, local authorities and other public and private sector bodies, and the voluntary sector. Crucially, everyone who lives and works in the East of England and values the region as a diverse natural and built Further Information landscape, is an important stakeholder. The very act of producing the Strategy has raised many issues, challenges and missing If you have questions about the Regional Environment Strategy, or would like to find out linkages. We hope above all that the Strategy will assist our regional partners in focussing more about how the region is moving towards a more sustainable future, please contact: environmental consciousness at the forefront of other strands of public policy making. It is intended that future annual monitoring of the Strategy will measure progress in delivery against the many action points it sets out, and will provide an all important Clare Hardy contextual background against which individual local and regional decisions will be made. Policy & Communications Officer East of England Regional Assembly Above all, the many organisations which have contributed to the production of this Flempton House Strategy, (whose assistance we gratefully acknowledge), hope that its publication will Flempton encourage widespread public debate. ‘Our Environment’ and the quality of life we value Bury St. Edmonds so much in our region is truly ‘Our Future.’ Suffolk IP28 6EG e-mail: [email protected] This document was edited and designed for the Joint Working Group by Land Use Consultants, 43 Chalton Street, London, NW1 1JD John Kent Simon Garnier Chair Chair Printed in the East of England on Recycled Paper by Gildenburgh Ltd East of England Regional Assembly East of England Environment Forum July 2003 2 The Regional Environment Strategy for The East of England The Regional Environment Strategy for The East of England 3 CONTENTS 1 Introduction 11 1.1 Why Is The Environment Important? 11 1.2 Purpose Of The Environment Strategy 12 2 The Landscape And Natural Environment 13 2.1 Natural And Man-made Landscapes 13 2.2 Biodiversity 15 3 The Historic And Built Environment 19 3.1 The Historic Environment 19 3.2 Local Distinctiveness And Quality In The Built Environment 22 4 Natural Resources 27 4.1 Water 27 4.2 Air And Climate 29 4.3 Land 31 5 Meeting The Environmental Challenge 35 5.1 Delivering Sustainable Patterns And Forms Of Development 35 5.2 Meeting The Challenges And Opportunities Of Climate Change 42 5.3 Ensuring Environmental Sustainability In The Economy 47 5.4 Enhancing Environmental Capital 52 5.5 Achieving Sustainable Lifestyles 59 6 The Way Forward 63 6.1 Delivering Sustainable Patterns And Forms Of Development 63 6.2 Meeting The Challenges And Opportunities Of Climate Change 65 6.3 Ensuring Environmental Sustainability In The Economy 66 6.4 Enhancing Environmental Capital 67 6.5 Achieving Sustainable Lifestyles 69 Appendix 1 - Bibliography 71 Appendix 2 – Acknowledgements 73 Appendix 3 – Other Regional Strategies 75 4 The Regional Environment Strategy for The East of England The Regional Environment Strategy for The East of England 5 Introduction 1 INTRODUCTION • Helps to define regional identity and distinctiveness. This Regional Environment Strategy has at its heart a vision of a prosperous and socially • Offers access to green space, and contact with inclusive East of England that recognises the nature and history, providing people with a value of our environment as an integral part variety of recreational and health benefits. of the region’s current and future sustainable development. The Strategy sets out an • Provides environmental resources including ambitious agenda for celebrating, protecting minerals, water, energy, and soils, directly and enhancing our natural, historic and built contributing to the region’s economy. environment. It highlights the importance of the environment to the broader improvement • Creates the conditions needed to attract inward of quality of life for everyone in the region. In investment, and retain those businesses that short, we want the East of England to be known already exist in the region. for the quality of its environment, and the quality of our environmental management and • Acts as a focus for regeneration through the stewardship, as part of the region’s progress repair and conservation of the built environment. towards improvements in prosperity and quality of life for all. For these reasons, a high quality environment is crucial for our well-being. This also means that we This document sets out the first ever Environment have a shared responsibility for maintaining and Strategy that covers the whole of the East of enhancing the environment of the East of England, England. It is one of a series of strategies that form both now and for future generations. part of an overall Integrated Strategy for the region. As such it will have an influential role in deciding But the importance of protecting and enhancing how the East of England will move towards a more the environment is only beginning to be understood. sustainable future. The Government recognised this when it published its strategy for sustainable development, 1.1 WHY IS THE ENVIRONMENT ‘A better quality of life’: IMPORTANT? “in the past success has been measured by All life is ultimately dependent upon the quality economic growth alone….we have failed to of the environment. Without clean air, water and see how our economy, our environment and soils we would not survive. But the environment is our society are all one.” valuable for much more than just supporting life. It comprises all our surroundings – our landscapes, This Environment Strategy for the East of England towns and villages, individual buildings, and historic sets an agenda for ensuring that the environmental features, as well as wildlife, and natural resources. part of this equation is given due weight in decision How they relate to one another determines the very making, in line with the fundamental principle of character of the places where we live. sustainability, which is to: The environment is a fundamental influence on “meet the needs of the present without our quality of life. It provides inspiration and, used compromising the ability of future wisely, it is a source of wealth. The environment generations to meet their own needs” (Our is worth protecting for its own sake, as well as for Common Future’ – The Brundtland Report). the benefits it brings to individuals, communities, institutions and business. It: 6 The Regional Environment Strategy for The East of England The Regional Environment Strategy for The East of England 7 Introduction The Landscape and Natural Environment 1.2 PURPOSE OF THE 2 THE LANDSCAPE AND deposits of Quaternary sands, gravels and clays, and ENVIRONMENT STRATEGY To raise awareness of the environment among key accumulations of peat. regional stakeholders, and to inform and advise NATURAL ENVIRONMENT other regional strategies to ensure that environ- North Norfolk – Formed of mudstones, sandstones The East of England Regional Assembly believes mental objectives are integrated with social and The East of England has a rich and diverse natural and chalk, the geology of this area is one of the that the key to sustainable development of the economic issues. environment containing some of the UK’s rarest most complete sequences of late Jurassic to late region is to integrate the delivery of economic habitats and species. A wide variety of landscapes Cretaceous rocks, overlain in parts by fossil rich development, social progress and environmental characterise the region, ranging from low-lying Pleistocene deposits. quality. It seeks to achieve this through a series It comprises: coastlines to large-scale arable farmland, and of regional strategies, which together form an from extensive lowland heath to intimate rolling Coastal Crag – The Suffolk Coast and the coastline Integrated Regional Strategy, whose common • A summary of the current state of the landscapes of mixed woodland and hedgerows. between Sheringham and Lowestoft are formed of reference point is provided by the East of England’s environment of the East of England - its Crag, being muddy and sandy sediments derived from Regional Sustainable Development Framework (more landscapes and its nature, its historic and built Landscapes such as the Broads, Breckland, the the North Sea and deposited during the last glaciation. information on the other regional strategies is given assets, and its natural resources Chilterns and the coast are outstanding in terms of in Appendix 3). (Chapters 2, 3 and 4). their natural beauty and biodiversity. The coastal West of the Region – Dominated by a combination and wetland habitats are of particular importance, of Jurassic clays and limestone, Cretaceous chalk, • A description of the main environmental with many covered by European and international and vast quantities of sand, gravels and clays, challenges facing the region, and a series of aims designations. The Broads are one of Europe’s most bisected by the Bedfordshire Greensand Ridge and for responding to these challenges (Chapter 5).
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