Issue - meetings

(1)       This report provided an overview of the revised Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Management Plans for the Kent Downs and High Weald and sought approval for adoption by the County Council.  This was the first review of the AONB Management Plans which the Council had adopted in 2004 and it strongly reflected the original adopted plan.  Mr Austerberry said that the revised plan had been subject to a very careful and thorough process and had been subject to detailed consultation.

(2)       Cabinet agreed:-

(i)         that the first revision of the Kent Downs AONB Management Plan be adopted as detailed in the Cabinet report in fulfillment of the County Council’s statutory duties under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000.

(ii)        that the Kent County Council adopt the first revision of the High Weald AONB Management Plan as detailed in the Cabinet report in fulfillment of the its statutory duties under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000; and

(iii)       that the appropriate officers in consultation with the Cabinet Portfolio Holder be delegated authority to review and accept changes made by other local authorities during the adoption process leading to the formal date of adoption of both plans by the end of February 2009.