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'A Shared Responsibility for a Very Special Place' Solway Coast Area Of ‘A shared responsibility for a very special place’ the Solway Coast AONB Management Plan ‘A shared responsibility for a very special place’ The Solway Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Management Plan 2009-2014 DRAFT FOUR POINT TWO 4.2 circulated 28/01/09 Foreword William (Bill) Jefferson OBE, Chairman (photo of Bill) Geographical context (MAP of NW England and map of AONB) Solway Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is one of 42 AONBs in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It is the only AONB that is fully within Cumbria and it lies in a narrow linear strip along the Solway Firth coastline between Carlisle in the East and Maryport in the West, it covers an area of 118 Km. Review Context The Countryside and Rights of Way Act (2000) strengthens previous legislation (1949) and makes further provision for the protection and enhancement of AONBs. It requires Local Authorities to prepare, publish and review, every five years, a Management Plan for AONBs in their area. This document presents the review of the 2004-2009 management plan undertaken and led by the Solway Coast AONB Staff Unit on behalf of the constituent Local Authorities and with support from Natural England. 1 ‘A shared responsibility for a very special place’ the Solway Coast AONB Management Plan The review and its subsequent outcomes, published as the new plan, will be subject to scrutiny using an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). Overall Vision This document drives the second stage (Part 2) in the delivery of a 30 year vision for the future restoration and prosperity of the Solway Coast AONB. That vision was signed up to by the AONB Partnership in 2004. The vision is confirmed by the AONB Partnership in this document taking our joint commitment to 2014. The Solway Coast AONB, through active conservation and enhancement, sits as an icon to well planned and implemented sustainable development. The wild and remote parts of the coastline are protected and enhanced to include open marshes, wetlands and dune areas. Traditional boundaries form a complex mosaic throughout the farming hinterland, reinforcing historic field patterns and supporting a sustainable farming economy. The area’s wildlife is abundant and habitats have been developed to reflect changes in climate and the wild nature of the area. Marine protected areas across the Solway Firth support a balanced estuarine ecosystem. The natural beauty and abundant wildlife found throughout the area have established the Solway as the best eco destination in the north of Cumbria. People living in and visiting the Solway understand, enjoy and help protect the area through a network of information and trails. People move around through a matrix of quiet lanes and routes by foot and on bikes. Traditional farmsteads and villages are complemented by new eco buildings. Together they support a range of sustainable businesses that draw on and complement the special resources available in the area. Local services and high quality IT infrastructure support a vibrant community. Small scale renewables that complement the areas special qualities are found throughout the area and the peatlands and mudflats provide a natural active carbon sink. Contents 2 ‘A shared responsibility for a very special place’ the Solway Coast AONB Management Plan Part 1 A very special place 1 What is Special about the Solway Coast AONB? Our landscape, our sense of place, our land 1.1 An ultra-low lying landscape sculpted by wind, water and the hand of man provides the backcloth to this unique English wilderness. A narrow coastal strip that bears the brunt of violent seas, howling gales and punishing rain also basks as a becalmed estuary in sunny warmth accompanied by the tranquillity of unpolluted birdsong. 1.2 Evocative words like these are frequently used by locals and visitors alike but it is the physical description of the character of the area and not the poetic description above that drives this Management Plan. So what are the characteristic elements of the Solway Coast AONB and what makes it more important than the countryside around it. 1.3 The Solway Coast lies to the side of an estuary; it is on a political border a physical boundary and a natural highway and it is these three elements that have created, over the past 10 millennia, what we have today. 1.4 The landscape has evolved through natural processes such as erosion, accretion, precipitation, sea level change, freeze, thaw, flood and drought. It has been moulded and domesticated, in part, by the endeavours of man from Mesolithic hunter gatherers to Neolithic farmers and mediaeval landowners and even the Ministry of Defence during WWII. The outcome of this dynamic evolution of the landscape is what quantifies and qualifies its unique intrinsic character today. Solway Coast AONB ‘Statement of Significance’ Sky 1.5 The sky dominates the coastal landscape and its ever changing moods from blue calm to shredded grey to water filled black has an immediate effect on the land and seascapes below it Other atmospheric conditions provide wetland mists, coastal haar and freezing fog each providing a unique texture and multi-sensual experience for the observer. The most powerful interaction though is the twice-daily 3 ‘A shared responsibility for a very special place’ the Solway Coast AONB Management Plan combination of tide and barometric pressure that can reveal calm or storm and it is this combined element which provides lasting memories of the Solway Coast. Land 1.6 Surrounding the Solway Coast the Galloway hills, the Cheviots, the Pennines and the Lake District fells create a natural amphitheatre of high ground softened by the rolling soft hilly hinterland of the connective landscape. These areas are cut by rivers which themselves have created softly rounded valleys with mild slopes and flat flood plains. Where they reach the AONB all are sluggish having lost their gravitational energy and are even held or turned by the tide revealing that unmistakable brackish element that defines an estuary and provides the observer with a melancholic feeling, this is further enhanced by the large expanses of intertidal saltmarsh and raised mire. It is a secret world that has dangers for the unwary and provides a mysterious sometimes described as ‘un-earthly’ quality. Essentially a wetland landscape the hinterland has been heavily modified to create land fit for agriculture; drainage ditches, low wind swept hedgerows provide the boundaries to small grass pasture fields and their associated settlements and steadings. Sea 1.7 The rhythm of the landscape is provided by the sea, it drives change every 12 hours, it has an influence that is variable and ultimately it can be unpredictable when certain climatic conditions combine. The sea drives the dramatic movements of the birds around the estuary, it also provides, through its many fisheries, hard-won food and commerce from its waters. Like the sky it changes character, it will disappear altogether for hours and will return with an awesome energy creating open water where minutes ago was land whether saltmarsh, sand or mud. To the west, the sea provides a constant backdrop to the sand dune and shingle coastline where, once again, its influence creates the mussel scaurs and reefs of the outer estuary. Life 1.8 The clamour of a thousand geese calling as they burst from the salt marsh, the wild whooping of Siberia breeding swans as they fly out to feed on stubbles, the piping of oystercatchers ahead of the tide and the whistling of wigeon as they fly into the tidal flashes. These sights and sounds evoke the essence of autumn and winter in the Solway Coast. In contrast, during spring the warming landscape is the backdrop for the dramatic warbling of curlew, the hurtling sweep of the lapwing and the bleating display of the snipe. Underpinning the efforts of these aerial dandy’s are the articulate songs of the yellowhammer and song thrush and the unmistakable tap-tap of the stonechat. This natural orchestra provides the Solway with a further signature that transcends the natural beauty of the landscape. 1.9 The four elements of land, sea, sky and life combine to make the area aesthetically special, unique and above all beautiful. If we are to conserve and enhance it we must first understand how it evolved into what we see today and then through this understanding provide 4 ‘A shared responsibility for a very special place’ the Solway Coast AONB Management Plan informed solutions to the many forces for change that impinge upon it. The next section describes the major processes that shaped the landscape. A 12,000 year history 1.10 The Solway Coast landscape has evolved since the last ice age, a span of time that is easily comprehendible in human terms. It has taken around 12000 years to create from a blank canvass the physical landscape we see today. The glacial maxima at around 18000 years before present (bp) provided the largest extent of ice in the northern hemisphere. The Devensian (last glacial) ice sheet stretched from the pole into the Irish Sea basin and as such its base will have obliterated the ‘soft’ landscape in the area of the Solway estuary. The Natural impression (the making of a wetland wilderness) 1.11 With the retreat of the ice sheets and the continuous fluctuations in climate over the past 12,000 years the Solway Coast was born. The glaciers and their subsequent melt waters scoured a basin upon which the landscape was formed. A blanket of boulder clays, sands and gravels were slowly colonised by plant species and a massive freshwater lake was formed where the many rivers flowed from the amphitheatre of uplands surrounding the basin.
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