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People and Nature Network Green Infrastructure in the South Downs National Park and Wider South East Agenda Item 12 Report PR19/20-23 Appendix 2 PEOPLE AND NATURE NETWORK GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE SOUTH DOWNS NATIONAL PARK AND WIDER SOUTH EAST DRAFT NOVEMBER 2019 83 Agenda Item 12 Report PR19/20-23 Appendix 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AUTHORS This Framework would not have been possible without the input and support Sharon Bayne BSc (Hons) MSc MCIEEM, Blackwood Bayne Ltd with of many people. The authors would like to thank the members of the original 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 Brighton Craddock and Hove unitary authority; GIS mapping and EcoServ-GIS modelling provided by Andrew Lawson Wealden, East Hampshire, Mid Sussex, Adur and Worthing representing local Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre, www.sxbrc.org.uk authorities; Suggested citation: S.Bayne & V.Hyland (2016), South Downs Green Environment Agency, Natural England, Historic England, Forestry Commission, Infrastructure Framework, Report for South Downs National Park Authority Woodland Trust; 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 South Downs Centre North Street Midhurst West Sussex GU29 9DH 01730 814810 © Crown copyright and database rights 2018 Ordnance Survey 100050083 DRAFT 84 Agenda Item 12 Report PR19/20-23 Appendix 2 ContentS CONTENTS A BRIEF HISTORY........................................................................ 2 THE NEED TO PLAN FOR CONNECTIVITY................................ 12 WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP ...................................................... 2 DEFICITS IN NATURAL GREENSPACE...................................... 12 1. INTRODUCTION TO THE PEOPLE AND NATURE NETWORK................................................................ 3 SOCIAL EQUALITY................................................................ 13 AIM OF THE FRAMEWORK...................................................... 5 BUILDING RESILIENCE........................................................... 13 OBJECTIVES OF THE FRAMEWORK.......................................... 5 URBAN EDGE PRESSURES..................................................... 13 THE NETWORK AREA.............................................................. 6 WORKING TOGETHER.......................................................... 13 2. TAKING THE LEAD FROM NATURE........................................... 7 6. THE PEOPLE AND NATURE NETWORK.................................... 14 3. WHY TAKE A REGIONAL APPROACH ?.................................... 8 STRATEGIC PRINCIPLES FOR THE PEOPLE AND NATURE NETWORK........................................................................... 14 MAP OF PLANNED DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NETWORK AREA... 9 SPECIFIC PLACES FOR NATURAL CAPITAL INVESTMENT........... 15 4. SUPPORTING THE ECONOMY............................................... 11 5. KEY FINDINGS FROM THE RESEARCH ................................... 12 CASE STUDY: NATURAL FLOOD MANAGEMENT – WINNALL NATURE RESERVE, WINCHESTER............................................ 18 THE PROTECTED LANDSCAPES AS A FOCUS........................... 12 DRAFT CASE STUDY: PETERSFIELD NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN, BRINGING AN AREA OF INTER-RELATED ISSUES..................................... 12 THE DOWNS TO THE TOWN................................................. 19 851 Agenda Item 12 Report PR19/20-23 Appendix 2 PEOPLE AND NATURE NETWORK A BRIEF HISTORY WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP During the preparation of the South Downs Local Plan, stakeholders were The protected landscapes of the south east are increasingly the green oasis asked whether the SDNP should develop a partnership approach to green of the sub region. The PANN seeks to achieve coordinated and strategically infrastructure planning. The positive response was overwhelming with 80 per planned provision for Green Infrastructure and natural ecosystem services for cent of respondents supporting this approach. communities and nature throughout the entire region within and beyond the boundaries of the protected areas. In October 2014, the South Downs National Park Authority began the process of developing a Green Infrastructure Framework for the South Downs National Park Working with a range of local authority, community, charitable and business and wider sub-regional area with its partners. This has since been developed as partners, we want to establish a sub regional network for people and nature a People and Nature Network (PANN) and now includes the other members of which delivers benefits not only to the environment but also to the development of the South East and East Protected Landscape group (SEEPL)– Chichester Harbour better places in which to live, work and invest. We want to ensure that planning AONB, High Weald AONB, Surrey Hills AONB, Kent Downs AONB, Cotswold for nature and people follows key principles which protect and enhance natural Hills AONB, Chiltern Hills AONB, North Wessex Downs AONB, Isle of Wight services, habitats, climate change adaptation, landscape connectivity, social AONB and the New Forest National Park. inclusion and equality and economic prosperity. This document is an introduction to how this coordinated and cross- sectoral approach to environmental master planning and regeneration has been developed within the original study area in 2014. DRAFT 2 86 Agenda Item 12 Report PR19/20-23 Appendix 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 analyzed 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. DRAFT 873 Agenda Item 12 Report PR19/20-23 Appendix 2 PEOPLE AND NATURE NETWORK FIGURE 1: NATURAL CAPITAL INVESTMENT AREAS (NCIAS) DRAFT 4 88 Agenda Item 12 Report PR19/20-23 Appendix 2 1. IntroduCtion to tHe People and Nature Network AIM OF THE FRAMEWORK OBJECTIVES OF THE FRAMEWORK Use natural assets to support health and well- Use green infrastructure to support the delivery To protect, enhance and create a being of people and businesses in the Network of ecosystem services; network of green and blue spaces which area; Integrate cultural heritage into the network sustainably meet the needs of local Identify and realise the economic benefits Improve access opportunities to natural communities, support natural ecosystem through planning green infrastructure in the greenspace in the network area for all sectors framework area; services and respects the special qualities of society; Protect and enhance biodiversity and improve of protected landscapes by proposing the Identify and prioritise opportunities to habitat connectivity to maintain and improve enhance and deliver optimum benefits from strategic principles for planning, delivery the health of the environment; masterplanning for nature and management of natural capital assets Protect and enhance the beauty of the Encourage the enhancement and delivery in the area. landscape in the Network area of strategic green infrastructure through Improve resilience to the effects of climate contributions from new development; change; Plan, deliver and manage natural capital assets Improve the sustainability of communities across to re-naturalise river catchments and other the network area landscapes where possible. Create opportunities for enjoyment, understanding and learning about the natural environment DRAFT 895 Agenda Item 12 Report PR19/20-23 Appendix 2 PEOPLE AND NATURE NETWORK THE NETWORK AREA 1.4 The extent of the initial network study area is shown on plan in figure 2 . There is potential to extend area to achieve a larger regional network of all the protected landscapes in the south east if this is widely supported. This is shown in figure 1. 1.5 The Network is intended to be a catalyst for coordinated action, building upon existing partnership working and bringing new and existing partners together around a shared agenda. 1.6 This is a collaborative document, developed with the input and advice of many partner organisations and an original Technical Working Group (listed on inside
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