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KENT
DOWNS
AONB
LAND
MANAGERS PACK – LOOKING AFTER OUR LANDSCAPE
Whether it is looking after your garden, field or farm, it is never easy
as it sounds. There’s more to hedge planting and management than waiting
for things to grow. The web based Kent Downs AONB (Area of Outstanding
Natural Beauty) Land Managers
Pack takes you carefully through the best ways to manage many different
landscape features for people and wildlife. The pack covers the
following topics for all 13 landscape character areas found in the Kent
Downs AONB:
Chalk Grassland
Hedgerows
Orchards
Ponds & Wetlands
Woodlands
Meadow grassland
Rivers and riverside
lands
Heathland
Marshes
There are also contacts for organisations that can help you with further
land management advice.
The pack has been put together by the 6 Countryside Management Projects
that cover the Kent Downs AONB including the Kentish Stour Countryside
which covers Ashford and
Canterbury
. Funding is from Kent County Council, the Kent Downs AONB Unit, Interreg,
Maidstone
and Tonbridge & Malling Borough Councils.
The pack is a web based tool that is easy to use and can be downloaded in
bite sized chunks. It will give you
practical guidance on how to manage the typical landscape
characteristics of the AONB, how to preserve what is special and unique.
The KD AONB Land Managers Pack is now live on http://www.kentdowns.org.uk/Land_Managers_Pack.htm
For further information you can e-mail Kate Phillips, Countryside
Partnerships Manager, KCC on kate.phillips@kent.gov.uk
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