Peak District National Park Management Plan 2023-28
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  • Introduction
  • The National Park and its Special Qualities

  • Vision
  • Aims and Objectives

  • Delivery Plan

    • Introduction
    • Monitoring
    • Aim One: Climate Change
    • Aim Two: Landscape and Nature Recovery
      • Objective 4
      • Objective 5
      • Objective 6
    • Aim Three: Welcoming Place
    • Aim Four: Thriving Communities
  • Appendices

  • References

  • National Park Management Plan Progress Report 2023-2028
  • State of the Park Report
  • Climate Change Vulnerability Report
  • Peak District Nature Recovery Plan

Delivery Plan: 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

# Target

By 2028 to have implemented the first five years of the One Peak District Nature Recovery Plan.


# Headline delivery

By 2028 we will have undertaken the following.

  • Agreeing and implementing the first five years of the One Peak District Nature Recovery Plan, complementing the emerging County Local Nature Recovery Strategies.

  • Increasing the area of land in Environmental Land Management schemes or equivalent, with a focus on, local nature recovery and landscape recovery.

  • Delivering the Wye Valley Collaboration Nature Recovery Project.

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 Partner
Natural England
Key Delivery Partners
Rural Payments Agency, National Park Authority, Wildlife Trusts, County Councils, Unitary Authorities, District & Borough Councils, National Trust, RSPB, National Farmers Union, Country & Land Business Association, Moorland Association, Farmers, Land Managers & Owners, Forestry Commission, Environment Agency, Historic England
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 Partner
Natural England
Key Delivery Partners
National Park Authority, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts, Chatsworth, Farmers, Land Managers & Owners
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 Partner
National Park Authority
Key Delivery Partners
Natural England, Wildlife Trusts, County Councils, District & Borough Councils, National Trust, RSPB, National Farmers Union, Country & Land Business Association, Moorland Association, Farmers, Land Managers & Owners, Forestry Commission, Woodland Trust, Environment Agency, Historic England

# 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

# Target

By 2028 there will be a 10% increase in audiences appreciating, understanding and enjoying cultural heritage.


# Headline delivery

By 2028 our cultural heritage and in particular built environments will be cared for and enhanced as an integral part of routine management through implementing the Landscape Strategy 2023 and by undertaking the following.

  • Piloting a one whole estate plan that addresses socio-economic issues as well as high environmental gains for a specific area.

  • Ensuring appropriate historic environment information is publicly accessible.

  • Minimising the impact on the landscape of replacement and new signage, cabling, communication masts and other similar infrastructure by sympathetically designing.

  • Reducing unnecessary signage, overhead wires and eyesores.

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 Partner
Chatsworth
Key Delivery Partners
National Park Authority, Historic England, Natural England
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 Partner
County Councils & Unitary Authorities
Key Delivery Partners
National Park Authority, Farmers, Land Managers & Owners, Historic England
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 Partner
National Park Authority
Key Delivery Partners
Natural England, Wildlife Trusts, County Councils, District & Borough Councils, National Trust, RSPB, National Farmers Union, Country & Land Business Association, Moorland Association, Farmers, Land Managers & Owners, Forestry Commission, Historic England, Utility Companies, Planning Agents
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 Partner
National Park Authority
Key Delivery Partners
Natural England, Wildlife Trusts, County Councils, District & Borough Councils, National Trust, RSPB, National Farmers Union, Country & Land Business Association, Moorland Association, Farmers, Land Managers & Owners, Forestry Commission, Historic England
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 Partner
County Councils, Unitary Authorities, District & Borough Councils
Key Delivery Partners
Peak Park Parishes Forum, National Park Authority, Utility Companies, Network Rail, Farmers, Land Managers and Owners.
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 Partner
County Councils, Unitary Authorities, District & Borough Councils
Key Delivery Partners
Peak Park Parishes Forum, National Park Authority, Utility Companies, Network Rail, Farmers, Land Managers and Owners.

# Objective 6

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

# Target

By 2028 landscape character, quality and condition will be enhanced or reinforced as it provides for nature recovery, climate change and access for all.


# Headline delivery

By 2028 the quality and character of the landscape will have been protected, enhanced or reinforced through implementing the Landscape Strategy 2023 and by delivering the following.

  • Establishing a baseline and reassessing the changes to the landscape using the Landscape Strategy's Landscape Description Unit photographs.

  • Understanding how people appreciate the evolving landscape and supporting them to positively embrace landscape change.

  • Piloting landscape change modelling using new technologies to simulating how the landscape will look in the future as it provides for climate change and nature recovery.

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 Partner
National Park Authority
Key Delivery Partners
Natural England, Wildlife Trusts, County Councils, District & Borough Councils, National Trust, RSPB, National Farmers Union, Country & Land Business Association, Moorland Association, Farmers, Land Managers & Owners, Forestry Commission, Historic England, Utility Companies, Planning Agents
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 Partner
National Park Authority
Key Delivery Partners
Natural England, Wildlife Trusts, National Trust, RSPB, National Farmers Union, Country & Land Business Association, Moorland Association, Farmers, Land Managers & Owners, Forestry Commission, Historic England
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 Partner
National Park Authority
Key Delivery Partners
Natural England, County Councils, Unitary Authorities, District & Borough Councils, National Trust, Chatsworth, RSPB, Historic England, Forestry Commission, Woodland Trust, Moorland Association, Universities
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 Partner
National Trust
Key Delivery Partners
National Park Authority, Natural England, Historic England, Wildlife Trusts, RSPB, Universities

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