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AONB Administration East Devon AONB 2009 Partnership For many years, as with the other two Devon AONBs there was no special management service or special Committee for the East Devon AONB. The area was administered and managed by the appropriate departments of the County Council and eight District Councils, and after 1974, with local government reorganisation, just one District Council, East Devon (an amalgamation of the eight pre-1974 district authorities). The complete definition on the Development Plans of the coastal strip of the AONB in 1984 as the East Devon Heritage Coast* (HC) first brought management services to this area. In the 1980s a Devon CC Coastal Officer was responsible for the East Devon and South Devon HC projects, and for East Devon, supervised the work of the East Devon HC Warden. Though the East Devon Project was run directly by Devon CC, East Devon DC and the Countryside Commission also contributed financially to the project. The success of the HC project eventually encouraged the County Council and District Council to establish an East Devon AONB wide management service in the late 1990s. Additionally, too, in 2001, a further designation, this time an international one, was added to the coast, when the ‘Jurassic Coast’ World Heritage Site, encompassing part of the Dorset, as well as the East Devon coastline, was designated under the United Nations Organisation for Education, Science, Culture and Community (UNESCO) Convention.
The East Devon AONB core team The Countryside and Rights of Way Act (CROW) 2000 strengthened arrangements for the management and administration of AONBs, and placed under Section 89 of the Act, a statutory duty on local authorities to prepare and publish AONB management plans. This duty led, in 2002, to the establishment of both an AONB Partnership, first chaired by Councillor Tony Reed, from East Devon DC, and an AONB core team of three, led by the current AONB Manager, Chris Woodruff with Kimmo Evans and Pete Youngman. The first AONB Management Plan (Strategy) was adopted by the County Council and the District Council in 2004 and was reviewed in 2008/9. The East Devon AONB Partnership, subsequently chaired by Margaret Rogers (DCC 2004-6) and Mike Ellingham (National Farmers’ Union 2006-8) and currently Donald Campbell (Axe Vale and District Conservation Society) has seventeen members, representing not just the two local authorities and Natural England/ DEFRA but also National Agencies, amenity, land owning and management groups, and Parish Councils. Significantly, the recently designated Jurassic Coast WHS is also represented on the Partnership. The main role of the AONB Partnership is concerned with guiding the implementation of the AONB Management Plan/Strategy and directing the work of the AONB Team via a Steering Group. The Steering Group, which holds executive powers for the AONB Partnership and Team, comprises funding partners: Natural England, East Devon DC, Devon CC and the AONB Team. Cllr Tony Reed Cllr Margaret Rogers Mike Ellingham Stuart Mollison and his wife with Councillor Tony Reed (AONB Chair) at the launch of the AONB Partnership – June 2003 – Sidbury Manor
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