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Appendices Appendix 1 The International Union for Conservation of Nature .................................................... 116 Appendix 2 European Landscape Convention .............................................................................. 117 Appendix 3 AONB Partnership Structure and Representation ...................................................... 119 Appendix 4 Section 85 Duty Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 ........................................ 121 Appendix 5 Management Plan Review Process ............................................................................ 123 Appendix 6 Policy Context ........................................................................................................... 125 Appendix 7 National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) ............................................................... 131 Appendix 8 Neighbourhood Planning ........................................................................................... 144 Appendix 9 Climate Change ......................................................................................................... 147 Appendix 10 Big Society ................................................................................................................ 152 Appendix 11 Natural Capital ........................................................................................................... 153 Appendix 12 Green Infrastructure (GI) ............................................................................................. 154 Appendix 13 Ecosystem Approach ................................................................................................ 155 Appendix 14 Policy Influence .......................................................................................................... 156 Appendix 15 Sustainable Development .......................................................................................... 158 Appendix 16 The South Wiltshire Farmland Bird Project ................................................................. 159 Appendix 17 Designation by English Heritage................................................................................. 161 Appendix 18 Sowing SEEDS Local Action Group ........................................................................... 162 Appendix 19 Planning Protocol for the Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ....... 163 Appendix 20 Position Statements 1-5 & Fact Sheet & Good Practice Notes 1-4 & 6 ....................... 170 Appendix 21 Protection of the Designated Landscape ................................................................... 190 Appendix 22 Major Development ................................................................................................... 191 Appendix 23 The Town and Country Planning Act .......................................................................... 192 Appendix 24 Community Infrastructure Levy - An Overview ........................................................... 193 Appendix 25 Sustainable Development Fund for AONBs ................................................................ 196 Appendix 26 Publications on the AONB Website ............................................................................ 197 Appendix 27 The National Association for Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty ............................. 200 Appendix 28 Additional Information - Landscape ........................................................................... 202 Appendix 29 Additional Information - Natural Environment ............................................................. 204 Appendix 30 Additional Information - Historic and Cultural Environment ......................................... 211 Appendix 31 Additional Information - Rural Land Management ...................................................... 213 Appendix 32 Additional Information - The Rural Economy .............................................................. 215 Appendix 33 Additional Information - Planning and Transport ......................................................... 219 Appendix 34 Additional Information - Viable Rural Communities ..................................................... 222 Appendix 35 Additional Information - Awareness and Understanding ............................................. 225 Appendix 36 Additional Information -Involvement and Learning ...................................................... 226 Appendix 37 Additional Information - Access and Wellbeing .......................................................... 227 Appendix 38 Acronyms .................................................................................................................. 228 Appendix 39 Explanation of Terms ................................................................................................. 230 Appendix 1 The International Union for Conservation of Nature The International Union for Conservation of Nature is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental organisations. It is a global organisation made up of many thousands of members. These members fall into three groups: State governments, non-governmental organisations, and individuals. It seeks to work with all of these constituents to promote conservation and sustainability in the world. It is influential on global and national policies in these areas through a partnership approach. The IUCN National Committee for the United Kingdom (IUCN NCUK) works as a convening body, aiming to bring together members from across the IUCN spectrum and from outside, in order to share information and to discuss approaches to influencing conservation policy and practice. IUCN NCUK also seeks to add value to UK conservation work by developing projects linked to IUCN activity. IUCN Protected Areas Categories System IUCN protected area management categories classify protected areas according to their management objectives. The categories are recognised by international bodies such as the United Nations and by many national governments as the global standard for defining and recording protected areas and as such are increasingly being incorporated into government legislation. AONBs come under Category V Protected Landscape/Seascape. A Category V Protected Landscape is defined as a protected area where the interaction of people and nature over time has produced an area of distinct character with significant, ecological, biological, cultural and scenic value: and where safeguarding the integrity of this interaction is vital to protecting and sustaining the area and its associated nature conservation and other values. You can find out more about IUCN athttp://www. iucn.org/ IUCN UK reconfirms the value of AONBs - 5th July 2013 The reconfirmation followed three years of work with the IUCN UK by the National Association of AONBs (NAAONB) consisting of input to developing IUCN’s guidance on categorisation (The Putting Nature on the Map Project), open forum discussion and the drawing up of a Statement of Compliance, supported by evidence from across the AONB Family. This statement was accepted by the IUCN panel in June 2013. Each individual AONB partnership provided further evidence to demonstrate that they meet the high standards demanded by the IUCN. The NAAONB compiled all evidence and presented this as an accompaniment to the Draft Statement of Compliance to the World Commission on Protected Areas UK Protected Areas Assessment Panel. Chris Mahon, Chief Executive, IUCN National Committee UK informed the NAAONB that; “We considered that the evidence was persuasive and that each manager had demonstrated a full understanding of the IUCN definition of a protected area, fully supported the generic statement and had plans to strengthen the place of nature conservation in future. We were agreed that all the AONBs had demonstrated to our satisfaction that they should retain their status as IUCN Category V protected areas and will accordingly so recommend to UNEP/ WCMC”. www.ccwwdaonb.org.uk Appendices Appendix 2 European Landscape Convention The European Landscape Convention (ELC) is a Treaty of the Council of Europe - not the European Union - that is freely entered into by individual state governments. This landscape convention builds upon earlier European Conventions, such as Berne (1997) aimed at conserving wildlife and Granada (1985) and Valletta (1992) protecting architectural and archaeological heritage, and the international Rio Convention on biological diversity (1992). The European Landscape Convention was adopted on 20 October 2000 in Florence (Italy) and came into force on 1 March 2004 (Council of Europe Treaty Series no. 176). It was signed on behalf of the UK government in 2006, and came into force in the UK 1st March 2007. It starts from the fundamental acknowledgement 'that the landscape is an important part of the quality of life for people everywhere: in urban areas and the countryside, in degraded areas as well as in areas of high quality, in areas recognised as being of outstanding beauty as well as everyday areas.' Importantly, it defines landscape in relation to people; 'an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and / or human factors.' The aims of the convention are; 'to promote landscape protection, management and planning, and to organise European co- operation on landscape issues.' At a national level that means; a. Recognising landscapes in law as 'essential components of people’s surroundings, an expression of the diversity