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appendix D Matrix 2: Assessment of Options for establishing Long-Term Aims for the Antonine Wall Management Plan 2013-18 SEA topics Biodiversity, flora and fauna Material assets will the management plan objective… • prevent damage and encourage favourable condition to designated sites and protected species and undesignated biodiversity, flora and fauna? • promote and enhance where appropriate enjoyment and understanding of the site from a natural heritage perspective? • contribute to effective adaptation to potential impacts of climate change on natural heritage? • maintain or enhance (where appropriate) the tourism resource of the WHS and the wider area? • support national forestry policy? Options for establishing long-term aims Option 1: carry forward existing long-term aims as set out in existing (2007-12) ? Management Plan The existing aims do not incorporate any explicit consideration of biodiversity, flora and fauna. As the aims focus principally on the site (and its associated landscape) as a heritage asset, the potential impacts on biodiversity, flora and fauna are uncertain. The aims incorporate an aspiration to improve access to, and presentation of, the site. The focus is principally on the Wall and its immediate environs rather than the wider area. There could therefore be a minor positive effect for the tourism resource provided by the site itself. ? Forestry and woodland issues are not explicitly referenced in the aims, and so the effects here are uncertain. Option 2: use a revised set of long-term aims for the 2013-18 Plan One of the revised aims focuses on balancing wider environmental concerns in the sustainable management of the WHS. This aim encompasses biodiversity, flora and fauna, but does not refer to them specifically; to ensure that the potential positive effects of this aim are optimised, and negative impacts from conflicts of priority are avoided, lower level objectives and actions related to the plan should incorporate more specific reference to incorporation of these issues into the balanced management of the WHS. / The aims include aspirations to protect and enhance the WHS, and improve physical and intellectual accessibility. This should have a positive effect on the WHS as a tourism resource. The focus remains on the WHS itself, and so impacts on wider tourism are likely to be neutral. As with the existing aims, forestry and woodland issues are not explicitly referenced in the revised aims; however, they have the potential for neutral or positive effects relating to national forestry strategy. This could be enhanced by ensuring that at a lower level measures are in place for the consideration of this issue. 58
Strategic Environmental Assessment: Environmental Report Matrix 2: Continued Cultural heritage Landscape and geodiversity Summary and mitigation • protect and where appropriate enhance the historic environment? • promote positive effects for the historic environment through land management? • promote and enhance where appropriate enjoyment and understanding of the site from a cultural heritage perspective? • contribute to effective adaptation to potential impacts of climate change on cultural heritage? • protect and enhance the landscape and geodiversity value of the WHS? • promote positive effects for the landscape through land management? • contribute to effective adaptation to potential impacts of climate change on the landscape? • promote and enhance where appropriate enjoyment and understanding of the landscape value and geodiversity of the site? / The aims focus on positive management of the Antonine Wall and its landscape, and also on increasing knowledge and awareness of the Wall. The aims focus on the Wall and its immediate environs, and so whilst there would be localised positive effects, the effects on wider cultural heritage are likely to be neutral. The aims do not indicate any potential consideration or adaption to climate change, and so the effects in that area are uncertain. / As with the existing aims, the revised aims focus on the positive management of the WHS and its landscape, and also on increasing knowledge and understanding. However, the revised aims contain a more explicit commitment to the safeguarding and enhancing the Outstanding Universal Value of the WHS. The introduction of an aim to balance wider environmental concerns with the management of the WHS has the potential to reduce positive impacts, however, this is not likely to have a significant impact on the overall positive effects of this option. An emphasis on sustainable management provides scope for consideration of climate change adaptation measures at lower levels of the plan. The aims focus on the WHS itself, and so they are likely to have a neutral effect on the wider cultural heritage. ? The aims include some elements which address landscape, which could potentially have positive effects. However, there could also be potential for ‘historic’ landscape priorities to outweigh and conflict with other landscape values such as aesthetic and natural. The aims do not explicitly address enjoyment and understanding, or adaptation to climate change, with regard to landscape and geodiversity, so the effect on these SEA objectives is uncertain. The revised aims contain explicit reference to the management, conservation and protection of the natural landscape of the WHS. To ensure that positive effects are optimised, geodiversity could be explicitly referenced at the lower level of objectives/ actions. Overall, there are positive effects for site in an historic environment and tourism context, but the impact on wider environmental topics is uncertain as the aims do not indicate whether or how these may be taken into account in achieving the plan’s aims. Recommendation: the aims should acknowledge that the site provides environmental benefits beyond tourism and the historic environment, and should provide more certainty about how these will be taken into consideration through implementation of the aims and at lower levels of the plan. There are predominantly positive effects across the environmental topics. The aims are worded to provide scope for the level of positivity to be increased at lower levels of the plan, where more detailed objectives will be set, that will lead to specific actions and outcomes. Recommendation: consideration should be given to how positive benefits for more biodiversity, flora and fauna, forestry and woodland issues, and landscape and geodiversity might be enhanced at the lower levels of the plan. 59
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CONTENTS chapter one Introduction 3
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chapter two Requirement for a Manag
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chapter four Consultation Process 4
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Page 38 and 39: chapter ten Issue Impact of climate
Page 40 and 41: APpendix a Statement of Outstanding
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Page 46 and 47: appendix c • Signage and improved
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