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Annual Review 2014/2015 www.nidderdaleaonb.org.uk NidderdaleWelcome to Annual Nidderdale Review 2012 ANNUAL REVIEW 2014/2015 Your AONB Enjoy Wildlife & Habitats Get Involved Living & Working Heritage Upper Nidderdale One of the AONB Family Nidderdale AONB Annual Review 2014/2015 Species rich wildflower meadows are an important part of the heritage of Nidderdale AONB as well as being a key habitat. Hay Meadow Nidderdale AONB Annual Review 2014/2015 Contents AONB Facts and Figures 2 Highlights from 2014/15 - at a glance 3 Foreword 4 Preface 5 Part 1 - Setting the Scene 6 The AONB Joint Advisory Committee and AONB Team 8 Part 2 - Performance: People, Policy & Partnerships 10 Performance: Conserving Natural Beauty 12 Financial Summary 14 Appendix: Statistics 16 01 Nidderdale AONB Annual Review 2014/2015 AONB Facts and Figures • The AONB covers 603 km2 of land in the foothills of • The population of the AONB is 15,671. 68% is in the Pennines in North Yorkshire. employment, 12% is aged between 16 – 29 and 15% is retired. • Nidderdale AONB shares its western boundary with the Yorkshire Dales National Park. • 20% of the households in Pateley Bridge do not have access to private transport; there has been a 13% • 95% of the AONB falls within Harrogate District increase in traffic flow on ‘C’ roads in the AONB since with a smaller share in Richmondshire and Hambleton 2001. Districts. The AONB is wholly within the County of North Yorkshire. • 30% of towns and villages have access to a bus service providing 4 journeys per day • The AONB is administered by Harrogate Borough Council in conjunction with North Yorkshire. It is • There are 820 kms of public rights of way in the overseen by a Joint Advisory Committee (JAC) that AONB. in 2014/15 had 23 members from 14 organisations representing local authorities, parishes, landowning • An estimated 35% of the AONB is accessible to bodies, community groups, business interests and walkers in accordance with provisions contained in the government agencies. Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000. • There were 11 members of the AONB Team in 2014/15 (7 full time equivalents). The team is based in Pateley Bridge, the only town wholly within the AONB. • 22,132 hectares (36%) of the AONB was moorland dominated by heather in 2010. • 24,195.91 hectares of the AONB’s moorlands are of international importance, and designated as a Special Protection Area and Special Area of Conservation. • The Fountains Abbey World Heritage Site is situated in the AONB. • There are 14 Conservation Areas, 126 Scheduled Ancient Monuments and 545 Listed Buildings in the AONB. • 1,106 people were employed on 503 farms covering 71% of the AONB in 2010. • There were 191,057 sheep in the AONB in 2010. • 7% of the AONB is woodland including 1,200 hectares of Ancient Woodland, 2,450 hectares is planted conifer woodland and 1,400 hectares is broadleaved. 02 Nidderdale AONBNidderdale Annual Annual Review Review 2014/2015 2012 Highlights from 2014/15 - at a glance During the period from April 2014 to March 2015 we: • Produced 30,000 copies of a Tour de France newsletter which was made available to thousands people who watched the Tour pass through Nidderdale on days one and two of the Grande Depart in Yorkshire • Organised three workshops for tourism businesses jointly with the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority which were attended by more than 120 people from tourism businesses in the Dales • Distributed 30,000 copies of ‘Visit Nidderdale AONB’ for tourists and day visitors with articles about where to go and what to see • Attracted over 730 people to 33 events in the AONB’s 2014 events programme • Increased the size of the AONB’s following on social media by 22% • Helped Friends of the AONB win grants worth £4,000 to support the AONB’s programme of conservation work and £9,000 worth of donations and sponsorship through ‘Firm Friends’ • Negotiated a £100,000 grant from the York, North and Images: Top - Prosperous Lead Mine remains; Bottom left - East Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership for preparation Nidderdale Conservation Volunteers willow spiling on the River of combined business and environmental plans for farmers Laver at Laverton; Bottom right - Amanda Walters, WW1 Project in Upper Nidderdale in conjunction with the Yorkshire Officer, and Lucy Moore, First World War Curator for Leeds Dales and North York Moors National Park Authorities and Museums and Galleries, with Dan Jarvis MP at the Houses of the Howardian Hills AONB Parliament • Opposed proposals for building more than 140 new houses on green field sites in the AONB • Negotiated 33 farmland conservation grants covering more than 2,541 hectares of the AONB and worth over • Staged 19 events to commemorate the Leeds Pals £1,793,996 for AONB farmers Regiments who were trained in the AONB before travelling to the Western Front in 1915 • Organised a programme of wildlife events for children • Attended a breakfast reception at the Houses of • Enabled Nidderdale Conservation Volunteers to devote Parliament to showcase our Heritage Lottery funded 3,190 volunteer hours to conservation work in the AONB ‘Nidderdale AONB and the First World War’ project and the AONB dry stone walling volunteers to devote 1,240 hours to repairing dry stone wallls across the AONB. • Carried out essential repairs to prevent the remains of Prosperous Smelt Mill from collapse, built a sand martin • Produced a report on High Nature Value Farming in nesting wall and provided placements for six students on Upper Nidderdale the Foundation Programme for Heritage Skills through the Upper Nidderdale Landscape Partnership Scheme • Improved habitat for fish and other aquatic wildlife by supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund removing a weir on the River Laver in conjunction with the Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust 03 Nidderdale AONB Annual Review 2014/2015 Foreword Flock of sheep and lambs above Scar House Reservoir © Sally Wilson All 46 AONBs in England, Wales and Northern Defra’s Farm Advice Framework alongside private sector Ireland are distinguished by their ability to create consultants including ADAS, Promar and SAC. productive and effective partnerships with a wide range of community and third sector organisations, We also work in partnership with our AONB colleagues local authorities, rural businesses and Government in the North Pennines and the Forest of Bowland on bodies. This is an important attribute at a time of scarce development of the Northern Upland Chain Local resources - we need to make a little go a long way. Nature Partnership’s programme for improving Nidderdale AONB is no exception, and collaboration environmental outcomes in an area covering large continued to be a hallmark of our work during 2014/15. tracts of the of the Pennines that stretches from just north of Preston to just south of the Scottish Border, We strengthened our already close links with the and which includes the Yorkshire Dales as well as Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority by developing Northumberland National Parks. During 2014/15, the a prospectus for economic growth that we submitted to Local Nature Partnership published research carried out the York, North and East Yorkshire Local Enterprise with farming groups on the value of High Nature Value Partnership alongside the North York Moors National Farming to the northern uplands, and we contributed Park Authority and Howardian Hills AONB. Working to the Partnership’s work on gathering and collating together at a landscape scale makes good environmental environmental data that will form a basis for future sense and it fits the Local Enterprise Partnership’s strategy. responsibility for economic regeneration and growth across a wide area that encompasses all four protected We think this approach works because it results in a landscapes as well as the bits in between. We were stronger more unified voice for protected landscapes. awarded a share of a £100,000 grant to develop We will always act in partnership with others to improve combined business and environmental plans for farm efficiency and outcomes for the environment, and we businesses as the result of the prospectus, which was will continue to think globally, and about northern included in the Local Enterprise Partnership’s Strategic England especially. But we will definitely be acting Economic Plan. locally at the same time. We are advocates of closer working between AONBs Councillor Nigel Simms and National Parks that was the first of several Chairman, Nidderdale AONB Joint Advisory recommendations contained in a report called Committee Maximising Revenues for Protected Landscapes published by Defra in March 2014, and we collaborated with the Yorkshire Dales, Lake District, Peak District and Northumberland National Parks on a joint bid to 04 Nidderdale AONBNidderdale Annual Annual Review Review 2014/2015 2012 Preface The Joint Advisory Committee’s goal is to ensure that: • Stewardship of natural beauty is a priority for everyone • Tranquility and opportunities for quiet enjoyment of nature are protected • Biodiversity is valued for its own sake • The legacy of the historic environment is celebrated • Local distinctiveness is maintained • The livelihoods of local communities are protected The purpose of this Annual Review is to record progress made by the Joint Advisory Committee, the Committee’s partners including farmers, community groups, local authorities, government agencies and the AONB Officer Team. It contains a summary of work carried out in accordance with priorities set out in the AONB Management Plan that covered the period to March 2015. Detailed targets that underpinned this work were identified in the annual Delivery Plan approved by the Cyclists on Pateley Bridge High Street JAC in March 2014. The Committee received a detailed report on progress towards meeting these targets in March 2015. The report is available to download from the AONB’s website. Fishermen on Fewston Reservoir © Paul Harris 05 Nidderdale AONB Annual Review 2014/2015 Part 1 - Setting the Scene AONB Designation The primary purpose of AONB designation is to Harrogate Borough Council is the accountable body for conserve and enhance natural beauty - its flora, fauna Nidderdale AONB.
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