Corporate Outcomes, Actions and 2007/08 Priorities
The following should be read as an integrated set. All actions have partnership working and sustainable development as underpinning principles and contribute to the Authority’s response both to addressing the effects of climate change and to reducing emissions that contribute to climate change.
A: The landscapes of the National Park are valued for their beauty, character and natural resources and managed to adapt to the effects of climate change by
1. Ensuring landscapes
are characterised, conserved and enhanced in accordance with their enduring and dynamic qualities
Priority level: ONE
2.
Promoting the importance of the landscapes as assets for the economy, the environment and local and
other communities
Priority level: TWO
3. Promoting
the need to protect the natural resources (such as water, soil and air quality) of the National Park
Priority
level: ONE
B: The adverse impact of mineral working on the special qualities of the National Park and its communities is minimised by
1. Influencing Government policy and legislation
Priority
level: ONE
2. Ensuring those quarries that remain are worked to the highest
modern environmental standards
Priority level: TWO
3.
Managing the reduction of large-scale quarrying in the National Park whilst taking local needs into
account
Priority level: TWO
1.
Influencing decisions on transport infrastructure, land use development and traffic management to make
them more sustainable
Priority level: ONE
2.
Encouraging people to change their patterns of behaviour to adopt more sustainable ways of travelling
Priority
level: TWO
1.
Providing recreational opportunities to key audiences particularly to children, young people and under-represented
groups from within the park and from surrounding urban areas
Priority level:
TWO
2. Providing a network of statutory and permissive routes, access to open
country and other relevant opportunities
Priority level: THREE
3.
Influencing partners and land managers to improve appropriate accessibility and opportunities for recreation
Priority
level: THREE
1. Influencing
partners and land managers to achieve favourable (or at least recovering) SSSI condition of land in
the Peak District
Priority
level: ONE
2. Achieving favourable (or at
least recovering) SSSI condition of all National Park Authority owned land
Priority
level: THREE
3.
Ensuring the achievement of all Biodiversity Action Plan targets
Priority
level: ONE
1. Working with rural and urban
communities to build on their awareness and involvement
Priority level:
TWO
2. Ensuring the achievement of all targets within the Cultural Heritage
Strategy
Priority level:
TWO
1. Providing learning opportunities to key rural and
urban audiences, particularly residents, young people and under-represented groups from surrounding
urban areas
Priority
level: ONE
2. Working with and influencing stakeholders to enhance learning
opportunities about the National Park
Priority
level: THREE
3. Encouraging and developing volunteering opportunities that
allow people to make a personal contribution to the sustainable management of the National Park
Priority
level: THREE
1.
Encouraging improvements in the quality of tourism services and products particular to the National
Park and compatible with its special qualities
Priority level:
TWO
2. Influencing tourism partnerships to achieve the targets of the sustainable
tourism strategy
Priority level:
TWO
3. Encouraging visitors to consider the environmental impact of their visit
and take positive action
Priority level:
TWO
1. Using planning and influencing powers to help create
more sustainable communities and a better environment
Priority level:
TWO
2. Influencing the provision of local services and better access to these
for communities
Priority level:
TWO
3. Reviewing the Local Development Framework (LDF) affordable housing policy
and encouraging an appropriate level of affordable housing
Priority level:
TWO
1. Nurturing
business development that supports and contributes to the environmental economy
Priority
level:
TWO
2. Working with partners, Government agencies and funding bodies to improve
the economic performance of local firms and to influence appropriate economic investment in the area
Priority
level:
TWO
3. Supporting land managers to manage the landscape sustainably whilst
creating economic benefits for the wider community
Priority
level: ONE
1. Ensuring value
for money, sustainability and high standards of corporate governance in the way that we deliver services
Priority
level: THREE
2. Communicating effectively with the resident and visitor population
Priority
level:
TWO
3. Valuing and developing staff and members
Priority
level: THREE
