Authority Plan 2023-28

Aim Two - Landscape and Nature Recovery

Aim: The Peak District National Park is a resilient landscape in which nature, beauty, and cultural heritage are significantly enhanced

# Objective 4

# To be a place where nature recovers and biodiversity flourishes

Actions
LNR.1 Maximise the area in the Environmental Land Management schemes of Sustainable Farm Incentive, Local Nature Recovery, Landscape Recovery & future equivalents.
LNR.1 Maximise the area in the Environmental Land Management schemes of Sustainable Farm Incentive, Local Nature Recovery, Landscape Recovery & future equivalents. Critical Success Factors
  • Influence design, payment rates and delivery of the Environmental Land Management schemes to foster farmer, land manager and owner participation - 2023-25
  • Farmers, land managers and owners supported to access the Environmental Land Management schemes annually between 2025-28
  • Influence the design, payment level and delivery of future funding mechanisms to foster farmer, land manager and owner participation – 2023-28
  • Percentage targets agreed for the area of National Park land in each of the three Environmental Land Management or equivalent schemes – March 2024
  • Monitor the area and value of land in Environmental Land Management schemes or equivalent annually 2023-28
Responsible Officer
Head of Landscape & Engagement
LNR.2 Deliver and evaluate at least two projects which tackle nature recovery and blend public and private funding to inform future funding models.
LNR.2 Deliver and evaluate at least two projects which tackle nature recovery and blend public and private funding to inform future funding models. Critical Success Factors
  • Deliver, evaluate and share the findings from the Wye Valley Collaboration Nature Recovery Project - 2023-25
  • Complete, evaluate and share findings of the Life in the Ravines Project – 2023-25
Responsible Officer
Head of Landscape & Engagement
LNR.3 Implement the agreed One Peak District Nature Recovery Plan in a way which works with and complements emerging County Local Nature Recovery Strategies.
LNR.3 Implement the agreed One Peak District Nature Recovery Plan in a way which works with and complements emerging County Local Nature Recovery Strategies. Critical Success Factors
  • Agree complementary approach to the Peak District’s One Peak District Nature Recovery Plan with all relevant local authority Local Nature Recovery Strategies – March 2024
  • Implement the One Nature Recovery Plan Annual report from 2025
Responsible Officer
Head of Landscape & Engagement

# Objective 5

# To understand, appreciate and enhance the cultural heritage and in particular built environments of the National Park as part of an ever-changing landscape

Actions
LNR.4 Pilot and agreeing one whole estate plan that addresses socio-economic issues as well as high environmental gains for a specific area to inform future ways of working.
LNR.4 Pilot and agreeing one whole estate plan that addresses socio-economic issues as well as high environmental gains for a specific area to inform future ways of working. Critical Success Factors
  • Pilot completed and evaluated by March 2024
  • Plan implementation from April 2024-28
Responsible Officer
Head of Landscape & Engagement
LNR.5 Ensure appropriate historic environment information is publicly accessible and increase the number of sites with new and / or enhanced interpretation.
LNR.5 Ensure appropriate historic environment information is publicly accessible and increase the number of sites with new and / or enhanced interpretation. Critical Success Factors
  • Timescales for making Historic Environment Records publicly available agreed by March 2024
  • A minimum of 3 enhanced access and interpretation projects delivered - 2023-28
Responsible Officer
Head of Landscape & Engagement
LNR.6 Use the Landscape Strategy 2023 as a routine management tool and apply the guidance.
LNR.6 Use the Landscape Strategy 2023 as a routine management tool and apply the guidance. Critical Success Factors
  • Launch the Landscape Strategy 2023 with partners 2023-24
  • Encourage the use and implementation of the Landscape Strategy by delivering a series of virtual “How to use the Landscape Strategy” events with partners - 2024-28
Responsible Officer
Head of Landscape & Engagement
LNR.7 Enhance and / or conserving landscapes, settlements, archaeological sites, historic buildings and structures including through adaptive re-use.
LNR.7 Enhance and / or conserving landscapes, settlements, archaeological sites, historic buildings and structures including through adaptive re-use. Critical Success Factors
  • Increase the quality of planning applications by:
    • relaunching pre-application advice 2023-24
    • completing and sharing the review of the Local Plan 2023-25
    • all applicants using the Landscape Strategy 2023-32, Historic Farmstead Guidance and Conservation Area Appraisals 2023-28
  • Farming in Protected Landscapes agreements enhancing and conserving cultural heritage and the built environment 2023-24
  • Maximise the use of future conservation management tools which enhance or conserve cultural heritage – 2024-28
Responsible Officer
Head of Landscape & Engagement
LNR.8 Sympathetically designing and replacing new infrastructure.
LNR.8 Sympathetically designing and replacing new infrastructure. Critical Success Factors
  • Encourage sympathetic design through implementation and promotion of best practice case studies – 2023-28
Responsible Officer
Head of Landscape & Engagement
LNR.9 Reduce unnecessary clutter (e.g. signage, overhead wires, eyesores).
LNR.9 Reduce unnecessary clutter (e.g. signage, overhead wires, eyesores). Critical Success Factors
  • Encourage removal of unnecessary clutter through promotion of best practice case studies – 2023-28
Responsible Officer
Head of Landscape & Engagement

# Objective 6

# To protect and enhance the natural beauty of the Peak District National Park’s contrasting and ever-evolving landscapes

Actions
LNR.10 Use the Landscape Strategy 2023 as a routine management tool and apply the guidance to enhance or reinforce the quality and character of the landscape.
LNR.10 Use the Landscape Strategy 2023 as a routine management tool and apply the guidance to enhance or reinforce the quality and character of the landscape. Critical Success Factors
  • Deliver virtual “How to use the Landscape Strategy” events with partners – 2023-25
  • All key partners using the Landscape Strategy from 2023-28
Responsible Officer
Head of Landscape & Engagement
LNR.11 Establish a baseline and reassess the changes to the landscape using repeat Landscape Description Unit photographs.
LNR.11 Establish a baseline and reassess the changes to the landscape using repeat Landscape Description Unit photographs. Critical Success Factors
  • Establish a baseline assessment of the character, quality and condition of the landscape using the Landscape Strategy Landscape Description Unit photographs in 2023.
  • Landscape Description Unit photographs repeated and reassessed from April 2026 to March 2027.
Responsible Officer
Head of Landscape & Engagement
LNR.12 Develop a robust evidence base to better understand how people appreciate the evolving landscape. Use findings to agree approaches that enable people to more positively embrace landscape change.
LNR.12 Develop a robust evidence base to better understand how people appreciate the evolving landscape. Use findings to agree approaches that enable people to more positively embrace landscape change. Critical Success Factors
  • Develop and agree scope of research and evidence base with partners, deliver findings and agree future approaches by March 2024.
  • Agreed approaches rolled out from April 2024 to March 2028.
Responsible Officer
Head of Landscape & Engagement
LNR.13 Pilot landscape change modelling to simulate how the landscape will look in the future as it provides for climate change and nature recovery.
LNR.13 Pilot landscape change modelling to simulate how the landscape will look in the future as it provides for climate change and nature recovery. Critical Success Factors
  • Explore the use of new technologies including the use of remote sensing data and augmented reality by March 2024.
  • Complete and promote the High Peak Estate pilot by March 2024.
Responsible Officer
Head of Landscape & Engagement

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