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Annual Review 2019/20 Introductionforeword ANNUAL REVIEW 2019/20 INTRODUCTION FOREWORD quarry to restoring large areas of heathland and bringing back elms to the A YEAR OF CHANGE IN Downs. It also highlights our work to connect people with nature – from the 3,886 children from socially deprived areas who had the chance to THE SOUTH DOWNS learn in the National Park thanks to our schools travel grant, to the “Mend Our Way” campaign which saw key areas of the South Downs Way NATIONAL PARK repaired to welcome the many tens of thousands of walkers, cyclists and horse riders who use it every year. I write this foreword in a very different world from that in It has been encouraging to see how the last few months have led many which we started the year. people to discover the National Park for the first time. As we return to The global pandemic has meant that we have all had to learn to some sort of normality, we want to ensure that these relationships with the 2 work and live more flexibly, finding new ways to balance work roles, National Park endure to become the basis of lifelong love, enjoyment and family life, environmental sustainability and caring responsibilities. As a respect. consequence, health and wellbeing has never been of greater importance Recent months have also highlighted more than ever the importance of and the National Park has never been more necessary as our “natural our farmers, cultural institutions, and local businesses of all kinds that health service”. constitute the rural economy. We have been working hard with partners Interest in accessing nature is high and we must not miss the opportunity to from across the National Park to support rural recovery and growth based show that our National Parks can be at the forefront of national recovery. on the benefits of National Park designation, whilst supporting our local This Annual Review captures some of our work over the last year to give businesses and communities through these unprecedented times. nature a helping hand – from creating a sand martin nesting site in an old FOREWORD At the end of March we launched the new Partnership Management Cover image: © SDNPA – Clayton to Offham Escarpment SSSI Plan for 2020 to 2025 which provides a roadmap for the Authority and This Annual Review highlights some of our key achievements for communities and partners across the National Park to support national 2019/20 which link to the objectives laid out in our Corporate Plan priorities on climate change and nature recovery. The Partnership 2019/20 (see southdowns.gov.uk/national-park-authority/ Management Plan sets the framework for the Authority’s own Corporate our-work/key-documents/ and click on SDNPA Corporate Plan Plan, which details exactly how SDNPA will deliver its own commitments. 2019/20) As we look ahead there will be many challenges, but, as always, we will use the guiding framework of our Partnership Management Plan to focus our work. This Annual Review shows that the National Park, the Authority, our partners and our communities are well placed to meet the future with 3 confidence. Trevor Beattie Chief Executive FOREWORD OUR PURPOSES AND DUTY Our role as the National Park Authority is clearly defined by Parliament in our statutory Purposes and Duty, which are: e nc a 4 h C n 1 E se o o opportunities forP the p u n understandingTo and promote r special qualities of the r u enjoyment of the p n P National Park by the o s e e c 2 public. To conserve and t enhance the natural beauty, wildlifethe area.and cultural heritage of To seek to foster the social and economic O wellbeing of the local u communities within the National r Park in pursuit of N our purposes. at ion y al Park Dut Th rive FOREWORD THE CONTEXT WITHIN WHICH WE WORK The South Downs National Park Authority’s MEMBERS NATIONAL PLANNING Corporate Plan sets out how we will deliver Purposesand POLICYFRAMEWORK Duty those elements of the South Downs National Park SDNPA Vision To 2050 Partnership Management Plan (PMP) for which GOVERNMENT we are responsible. All relate back to the 10 National Park Circular 5 outcomes in the PMP. The Corporate Plan is one of our key Partnership SDNP Management management tools to ensure delivery of our SDNP Special Stateofthe LocalPlan Plan Purposes and Duty. Qualities Park Report Progress towards demonstrating that we have delivered the success measures will be Guiding SDNPA 5 years monitored by the South Downs National Park Principles Corporate Plan Authority annually and published in the Annual Review. Values Directorateor team plans 1 year StaffIndividual Objectives 1 year INTRODUCTION ACHIEVEMENTS KEY ACHIEVEMENTS FROM 2019/20 DARK SKIES During our Dark Skies Festival... 211 FARMERS IN... FARM % 81 CLUSTERS 6 SCHOOL covering 10 rds CHILDREN ADDITIONAL 2/3 of the 3,866 26 PARTNERS PLANNING ENTRY SIGNS National from our more deprived communities Park visited the National Park thanks to the ...held over... APPLICATIONS installed SDNPA Travel Grant (major, minor and other) dealt with within agreed timescales E-NEWSLETTER 6 HEATHLANDS SDNP signups to date WEBSITE REUNITED YEAR 4 30 EVENTS HEDGEROW 6,564 ha UNIQUE VISITS +17% ...involving some k 471 1,592 metres MORE THAN 500 of heathland 5,000 laid restoration work PEOPLE PAGE VIEWS +34% (total to date) OUR 278 SOUTH DOWNS m MORE THAN 5.3 VOLUNTEER RANGERS SOCIAL MEDIA REACH spent... 126 CHALK 39,309 GRASSLAND, DAYS SUPPORTING TOTAL FOLLOWERS WOODLAND, National Park work m 3,742 HEATHLAND & 7.2 RIVER SITES TOTAL REACH ...maintained and enhanced across the National Park ALONG THE SOUTH DOWNS WAY DAYS OF WARDEN 48 SURVEYING 35 9 83 on the South Downs Way NEW WAYMARKERS GATES GATES REPAIRED REPLACED OBJECTIVE 1 OBJECTIVE OBJECTIVE 1: SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTH DOWNS NATIONAL PARK AS A SPECIAL, THRIVING, LIVING AND WORKING LANDSCAPE We are continuing to work with a variety of partners to deliver key outcomes which conserve and enhance the landscape, biodiversity and heritage assets in the South Downs National Park. We are also managing the impacts of large-scale and cumulative small-scale developments. Progress against our key objectives as laid out in the Corporate Plan are summarised below: WHAT WE SAID WE WHAT WE HAVE DONE WHAT WE SAID WE WHAT WE HAVE DONE 7 WOULD DO WOULD DO We held seven Environmental Land The People & Nature Network (PANN) Management (ELM) Tests & Trials (T&T) document (Green Infrastructure in the South farmer workshops in May and October Downs National Park and Wider South 2019. These were attended by 125 East) is completed and ready for publication farmers, land managers and advisors. There and release on the web site. Work on Work with Defra and farm were four Key themes across the workshops: green infrastructure this year has included clusters on tests and trials of for a scheme that is 1) simple, 2) flexible the East Winchester Study where an Publish the South Downs the new environmental land and 3) utilises local advice and knowledge Action Plan is complete following extensive Green Infrastructure (GI) management scheme in a 4) collaborative way. A report was stakeholder engagement. The remaining Framework and implement a compiled and submitted to Defra providing final outputs – technical report, story map programme of work feedback from all seven workshops. Our and downloadable info page are awaiting longer term vision is to have significant completion. We have also held an initial involvement with the ELM National Pilot from partnership meeting regarding joint working 2024. in Natural Capital Investment Area (NCIA) no 2 – East Hants and Heathlands. We will continue to use the PANN evidence base to feed into other initiatives. OBJECTIVE 1 OBJECTIVE WHAT WE SAID WE WHAT WE HAVE DONE WOULD DO There are three work streams within the action plan: People, Place and Prosperity. Key achievements are: People Work area: Discussions were held with Royal Forestry Society (RFS) to deliver training courses for foresters in the SDNP. These courses are now programmed and being advertised widely. 8 Support the delivery of the Place Work area: New Ash Dieback Forestry Champions action resilience officers at West Sussex County plan Council and at Forestry Commission who we will be working with on strategic planning. ‘Trees for the Downs’ fundraising © SDNPA/A.Purkiss campaign launched. Prosperity work area: South Downs Forestry Champions newsletter produced. Discussions held with an SDNP estate about potential for provision of affordable homes for estate workers. Secure medium-term funding Funding for the Heathlands Reunited project to continue to develop our was secured in 2016. See page 7 for more aspirations around bigger, details on the project’s very successful fourth better, more joined up year. heathlands OBJECTIVE 1 OBJECTIVE OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS GOODBYE ChaMP – HELLO TAP! BRINGING ELMS BACK TO THE DOWNS The four year Chalk Management Partnership (ChaMP) project, a multi- The first phase of the project to partner collaboration that aimed to protect and improve the quality of address the widespread loss of groundwater in the Brighton Chalk, formally closed in March 2020. The English elm, supplied 1,400 total project cost was £400,000 secured from a range of partners and disease resistant elms of 8 grant specific funding. The SDNPA contribution was a £105,000 cash different cultivars (plus 200 small 9 contribution and wider resource support provided to the project team leaved lime) to over 70 recipients from within the Authority. Key successes of the ChaMP project include the across the National Park, from engagement of rural landowners and the development and rollout of land Winchester to Eastbourne. Plant management interventions with a focus on new trials and innovation.
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