AONB PEOPLE – Living & Working

LW1

LW2

LW3

LW4

LW5

LW6

Objectives:

• To develop a greater sense of ownership and value of the AONB designation by communities
• To help to develop community based approaches to landscape character assessment and community planning, identifying local distinctiveness and sense of place as integral to such approaches
  

Objectives:

• To seek to identify and promote the economic value of the designation to its communities
• To work with partners to ensure that AONB communities are well served with sufficient access to goods and services
• To work with partners to ensure sustainable approaches are taken to address all issues affecting rural communities within the AONB

LW3 - Development conserves and enhances landscape character and brings jobs, services and economic well-being

Objectives:

• To seek to identify and promote the economic value of the designation to its communities
• To work with partners to ensure that AONB communities are well served with sufficient access to goods and services
• To work with partners to ensure sustainable approaches are taken to address all issues affecting rural communities within the AONB

LW4 - Planning policies are coherent and their implementation consistent affording the necessary protection, conservation and enhancement of the AONB

Objectives:

• To support development of a nature and scale appropriate to its setting that does not compromise AONB purposes
• To ensure that planning policy and supplementary planning guidance considers the AONB and its purposes
• To encourage greater community involvement in the description and formulation of locally based approaches to complement the planning process and help to conserve and enhance the AONB
• To initiate preparation of guidance and other documents that seek to influence specific activities/features that have a potentially damaging impact upon the AONB designation

LW5 - Support is given to the need to recognise and reinforce local character and distinctiveness in design, scale, setting and materials that are used when converting existing traditional buildings and new development within the AONB and it settlements

Objectives:

• To support development of a nature and scale appropriate to its setting that does not compromise AONB purposes
• To ensure that planning policy and supplementary planning guidance considers the AONB and its purposes
• To encourage greater community involvement in the description and formulation of locally based approaches to complement the planning process and help to conserve and enhance the AONB
• To initiate preparation of guidance and other documents that seek to influence specific activities/features that have a potentially damaging impact upon the AONB designation

LW6 - Sustainable approaches to development are encouraged where they conserve and enhance the AONB

Objectives:

• To support development of a nature and scale appropriate to its setting that does not compromise AONB purposes
• To ensure that planning policy and supplementary planning guidance considers the AONB and its purposes
• To encourage greater community involvement in the description and formulation of locally based approaches to complement the planning process and help to conserve and enhance the AONB