Blackdown Hills AONB Partnership

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Blackdown Hills AONB Partnership Natural
England Somerset County Council Devon County
Council Taunton Deane Borough Council
Mid Devon District Council South Somerset
District Council The National Trust Somerset
Wildlife Trust Somerset Art Week Ltd
Local Stakeholders Group
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Neroche Phase 1 - 2006 to 2010 The Landscape
Partnership Scheme
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To secure and celebrate the landscape of the
northern Blackdown Hills by
Investing in the natural, built and cultural
heritage of the area
Making the landscape more accessible to
everyone
Improving peoples ability to sustain the
qualities of the landscape into the future
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Investing in the heritage
Forest Longhorn herd
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Landscape-scale habitat restoration
Investing in the heritage
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Investing in the heritage
Castle Neroche Reconstruction
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Investing in the heritage
Playstreet Community Excavation
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Investing in the heritage
LiDAR topographical survey
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Staple Fitzpaine Herepath
Making the landscape accessible
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Making the landscape accessible
Sculpted Oral History at Britty Farm - Michael
Fairfax
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Making the landscape accessible
Music and Storytelling for Punkie Night
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Making the landscape accessible
Digital Trail Guides
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Making the landscape accessible
Family Bushcraft
Forest School Training
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Making the landscape accessible
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Helping people sustain the landscape
Apprenticeship Scheme
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A new horizon for Neroche to 2015
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A new horizon for Neroche to 2015
What could we build on?
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A new horizon for Neroche to 2015
What could we build on?
What is our USP ?
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A new horizon for Neroche to 2015
What could we build on?
What is our USP ?
What other themes could we address?
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What could we build on?

• Forest-based landscape-scale process
• Low intensity forest grazing
• Enabling communities to explore their local
  history
• Multi-user circular off-road trails
• Mobile digital interpretation
• Visual arts, music and storytelling
• School-based Forest School leadership capacity
• Health walks programme
• Family bushcraft activities
• Forest-based apprenticeships

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What is our USP ?

• Working to create a meaningful form of community
  involvement in project development and delivery
• Juxtaposing sometimes very different disciplines
  and perspectives in one common landscape setting,
  to create fruitful syntheses
• Giving equal weight to heritage/biodiversity
  activity, and public/educational involvement

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What other themes could we address?

• Development of local supply chains for timber and
  woodfuel from the forest and local woodlands to
  local markets
• Enhancing the link between rural landscapes and
  urban centres, in terms of sustainable access,
  transport and information
• Provision of a single focal point for community
  activity in the forest

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Themes for post-2010 - and a shopping list of
project headings
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Forest School Network Continuing to support and
develop school use of the landscape for learning
Forest for family and health Family bushcraft,
arts and health walk programme targeted at
disadvantaged groups in Taunton and other towns
Landscape heritage tool kit Development of the
Community History model to enable people to
explore their local history and landscape heritage
A shared forest space A sustainably constructed
roundhouse as a gateway and focus for community
events
Communities connected to the countryside
A landscape prepared for a shifting climate
Natural networks Landscape-scale habitat
restoration programme extending west and south
from Neroche ridge
A common space for learning and sharing
Neroche 2015 A self-sustaining partnership of
people in their landscape
Herepath network Extension of Herepath network
further into the Blackdowns, with more petal
loops off main routes
Woodfuel and timber Woodfuel initiative
supplying surrounding towns, and timber sourcing
for local construction
Bringing the forest to town Development of
recreational links and green infrastructure in
corridor from forest edge into central Taunton
Forest Beef Extended collaborative programme for
rearing and marketing of forest beef
Information on the move Development of Digital
Trail Guides through a commercial venture
Forest skills for local people Development of
Neroche Apprenticeships model in partnership with
skills providers
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Discussions currently underway
A landscape prepared for a shifting climate
Communities connected to the countryside

• FC timber revenue reinvestment
• Somerset County Council Interreg wood fuel
• SW Protected Landscapes Forum Interreg Food
  and Farming
• Somerset Wildlife Trust/Butterfly Conservation -
  Tubney Trust
• Natural England exploratory meeting in December

• SCC/ WS Atkins multi-user route Taunton to
  Forest
• Devon County Council - Interreg access
  horsiculture bid
• Taunton Deane Borough Council Green
  infrastructure study
• Local Action for Rural Communities
  commissionable project proposals

A common space for learning and sharing

• Somerset and Devon County Councils - Forest
  Schools
• KPMG Foundation Forest School
• Silvanus Trust/University of Plymouth Family
  Friendly Forest School
• Somerset County/English Heritage - Community
  History exploratory meeting
• Imayla Trust support for Access to Nature bid
• Local Stakeholders Group consultancy

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• Next key date
• By-invitation Partnership Dinner in early
  February 09
• aimed at current and potential funders and
  community supporters
• first airing of a Neroche DVD currently in
  production

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What is our challenge?
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• Find more funding - and dont hang about!
• Continue to develop through a real, instrumental
  community involvement
• Maintain a holistic view of the landscape for
  which we are working
• Reach a point in five years time when our
  activities can become self-sustaining