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The White Peak Partnership Presentation to the Peak Parishes Forum 8 th June 2020 Suzanne Fletcher Head of Landscape & Conservation (PDNPA) 1 Summary of presentation Session overview Background The Partnership so far White
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Session overview
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Dark Peak – Moors for the Future Partnership since 2002, moorland restoration work on a landscape scale. South West Peak - National Lottery Heritage Fund Landscape Partnership (2017-2021) White Peak – Missing link? Most fragmented habitats of any National Character Area in a National Park, identified as a priority in the State of Nature in the Peak District report (2016)
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‘Developing our Vision for the White Peak’
‘From ideas to action’
Organisations and key White Peak farmers
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The present… The future…
visited
support systems
goods
and species resilience
and managed
falling
coverage
bigger, joined up and more
fragmented landscapes within a National Park
District report – White Peak a priority
ravine ash woodlands
and open access
resilience
people, natural and cultural environment – the place
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Working with nature, people have revitalised the White Peak enhancing its unique natural and cultural heritage. Farming, business and communities work in harmony for a landscape that is healthy, fit for the future and for all to enjoy responsibly. The networks of special habitats, wildlife and access are enhanced, enlarged and linked up, providing vital connected corridors across the landscape. Links to the past and layers of landscape above and below ground are valued and conserved. Sustainable land management is an integral part of this limestone landscape producing high quality food and delivering a full range of public goods including clean water.”
Background The White Peak Partnership Steering Group: -
The Partnership Steering Group membership: -
– Peak District National Park Authority – Derbyshire Wildlife Trust – Natural England – National Trust – Environment Agency – Historic England – National Farmers’ Union
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ELMs (Environmental Land Management scheme) is the proposed new support scheme for farmers & land managers.
agriculture and caring for the natural and cultural heritage
− £30 Million/year into the National Park − Current support system not working − Revised approach needed
Partnership and Peak District Land Managers’ Forum
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The Peak District National Park Authority is leading one of 42 Phase 1 Defra tests, in the White Peak. The White Peak test aims to determine whether a National Character Area framework can be used as an approach to designing some of the building blocks for ELMs, and help change the relationship between Government, and farmers and land managers.
Delivering, through farmers & land managers, the goals in the 25 Year Environment Plan for: Clean and plentiful water Clean air Thriving plants and wildlife Adaptation to and mitigation of climate change Reduction in and protection from environmental hazards Beauty, heritage and engagement with the environment. A new relationship with farmers & land managers – a contract to deliver public goods alongside market products, not customers of subsidy. Polluter pays principle - Dame Glenys Stacey Review. Glover Review for designated landscapes - bolder & more ambitious on wildlife & future
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Defra are funding: -
Profile is fit for purpose
Area Profile summary document that sets out the public goods that can be delivered in the White Peak
Character Area framework can be used to design and deliver land management plans
to design and deliver land management plans and if it can be used to prioritise delivery of public goods
Defra ELMs Test White Peak NCA Prioritise public £’s for public Goods? Thinking about what might change – the offer? White Peak NCA summary Land Management Plans What does the offer look like?
Carbon ready reckoner Budget ready reckoner Practical field trials
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Spatial planning and prioritisation framework:
Networks Evidence Handbook is now available.
joined up and more to deliver the targets in the 25 Year Environment Plan of 500,000ha of new or restored habitat and 180,000ha of new woodland.
crises, and deliver a range of public goods.
adviser knowledge used to produce an opportunity map, which aligns to that produced by Natural England science team mapping limestone grassland networks.
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the water vulnerability of an area to factors such as agricultural pollution
smaller scale
advisers or to prioritise funding
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Nature Recovery Strategies