All AONB 's have to have a management plan, a statutory (legal) requirement set by the CRoW Act.
The High Weald JAC has prepared the current Plan on behalf of all the local authorities in the High Weald.
This Plan uses a unique approach to landscape by defining its Natural Beauty through 5 essential 'components' which have survived over its history, and have retained their character.
These are:
- Geology, Water Systems and Climate,
- Settlement,
- Woodland,
- Routeways, and
- Field and Heath.
Using a time depth study, the Plan explains how the landscape was formed, through its geology, habitats and features, and then shaped by human colonisation and our later agricultural and further human exploitation of it.
It also includes a section on public understanding and enjoyment, which looks at peoples involvement with and activity in the landscape.
The plan can be used by anyone who wants to get to know the landscape and learn how it can be better managed. It sets objectives for its management and five year targets for its improvement. The current plan was approved in 2009 after an extensive review (for details of the review click here) and is due to be updated again by 2014.
Download the plan
High Weald AONB Management Plan (2.56 MB)
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