Issue - decisions

To endorse the Cotswolds National Landscape (CNL) Management Plan 2025-2030 as a material consideration n planning decisions including development plan formulation.

Include strategic policies referring to the CNL in the Strategic and Local Plan (SLP).

Background information:

The Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Management Plan is referenced within our adopted Development Plan (Joint Core Strategy 2017 and the Cheltenham Plan 2020) in terms of making it clear that proposals will be required to be consistent with the Management Plan including the latest iteration. 

Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) are now referred to as National Landscapes. This name change is non-statutory.

The main purpose of the management plan 2025-30 is to conserve and enhance the natural beauty of the Cotswolds National Landscape (CNL) through three interlinked issues covering: the climate emergency, nature’s decline and ecological crisis, and health and societal changes.

Background papers:

Cotswold National Landscape Management Plan 2025-2030 

SLP joint response to CNL consultation on their management plan review. 

Cotswolds AONB Management Plan 2023-2025? 

Guidance for relevant authorities on seeking to further the purposes of Protected Landscapes??