Issue - meetings

Forward Plan Ref: 2014/144

Contact: Vicky Fletcher, Environment & Resource Efficiency Manager – Tel: (01865) 815420

Report by Deputy Director for Environment & Economy – Strategy & Infrastructure Planning (CMDE9).

Agreed

RESOLVED:         to: endorse the North Wessex Downs AONB Management Plan 2014-2019

The Cabinet Member for Environment on behalf of the County Council had been requested to endorse the statutory North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Management Plan for 2014-19 in the light of an officer report (CMDE9).

Councillor Charles Mathew as the County Council’s representative on the Board (and also the Cotswolds AONB Board) referred to the value of these Plans and the work undertaken by the Areas and supported endorsement.  However, he highlighted the need for the County Council and District Councils to support the work of AONBs and help protect each one by ensuring that planning applications in a particular AONB area were necessary and he quoted a recent application to the Vale of White Horse in Harwell which affected the North Wessex Downs AONB.

Having regard to the arguments and options set out in the documentation before him, the representations made to him and the further considerations set out above the Cabinet Member for Environment confirmed his decision as follows:

to endorse the North Wessex Downs AONB Management Plan 2014-2019.

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Cabinet Member for Environment

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