The Antonine Wall Management Plan 2013-18 - Glasgow City Council

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AIM 2: PROMOTE AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF THIS OUTSTANDING UNIVERSAL VALUE TO LOCAL, REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL AUDIENCES BY IMPROVING
PHYSICAL AND INTELLECTUAL ACCESSIBILITY
SEA topics Biodiversity, flora and fauna Material assets Cultural heritage Landscape and geodiversity Summary and mitigation
will the management plan objective… • prevent damage and
encourage favourable
condition to designated sites
and protected species and
undesignated biodiversity,
flora and fauna?
Medium-term issues/objectives
• 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?
• 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?
Issue: Ensuring a strong visitor experience on site
Objective 2.1
To implement key recommendations
in the approved interpretation plan
and access strategy: improving signage,
interpretation, visitor information,
access routes and visitor facilities at
individual sites along the Wall.
Objective 2.2
To promote and enhance use of the
ANTONINE WALL WHS as a longdistance
route and visitor facility that
links communities across central
Scotland.
Objective 2.3
To consider transportation
infrastructure more widely around the
WHS and build business partnerships
to facilitate access for visitors in and
around the ANTONINE WALL WHS.
Objective 2.4
To develop and foster links and
partnerships with local tourism
providers and other businesses, to
provide an enhanced service for visitors.
/ /
The SEA of the Interpretation and
Access Strategy indicates that
objective 2.1 has the potential
for negative effects through
actions which have direct
impacts, but also for positive
effects in terms of promotion of
understanding and enjoyment of
the site from a natural heritage
perspective.
At this level it is difficult to
identify to any specific degree
the nature of these negative
effects, but in many cases,
effects are likely to be minimal
and localised. The remainder
of this group of objectives is
considered to have the potential
for similar effects.
This group of
objectives is directly
related to the
enhancement of the
tourism resource
of the site, and is
consequently likely
to have a significant
positive effect in
this area.
There are no strong
links to forestry
strategy, so the
effects here are likely
to be neutral.
The SEA of the Interpretation and
Access Strategy indicates overall
positive effects for the historic
environment from objective 2.1.
The remainder of this group of
objectives is considered to have
the potential for similar effects.
/ /
The SEA of the Interpretation and
Access Strategy indicates that
objective 2.1 has the potential
for negative effects through
actions which have direct
impacts, but also for positive
effects in terms of promotion of
understanding and enjoyment of
the site from a landscape value
and geodiversity perspective.
At this level it is difficult to
identify to any specific degree
the nature of these negative
effects, but in many cases,
effects are likely to be minimal
and localised. The remainder
of this group of objectives is
considered to have the potential
for similar effects.
This group of objectives
has the potential for
mixed effects; use of the
sustainability checklist
is already embedded for
those actions stem from
the interpretation plan and
access strategy, and should
identify and help to mitigate
negative effects at lower
levels of the plan.
Recommendation: the
sustainability checklist
should be applied to actions
which ensue from these MP
objectives, to ensure that wider
environmental objectives are
embedded at a lower level of
the plan.
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