For the last three years CTP has been responsible for developing and facilitating a series of workshops for AONB staff developed in conjunction with the National Association of AONBs, the South West Protected Landscapes Forum, Natural England and the Countryside Council for Wales. Subjects covered have included undertaking Management Plan Reviews, Ecosystem Services, the implications of the Infrastructure Planning Commission as well as regional workshops for the South West and South East AONBs.
Working with all team members to undertake a review of the current staff structures and resources that will allow for future staff changes to be addressed more strategically rather than in a piecemeal fashion. Recommendations have been implemented to include altering the foucs of monthly team meetings to incorporate quarterly reviews that will help reporting outcomes to Natural England.
This is another funding scheme - total budget £25m ~ that went live in April 2008. We facilitated a development workshop for Natural England’s regional advisers that looked at the application process, and were commissioned to advise on the scope and nature of the scheme’s evaluation programme. Click on the link for further details on Access to Nature
Malvern Hills AONB
Working in partnership with Red Kite Environment we reviewed the Malvern Hills AONB Management Plan including full consultation and production of a Strategic Environmental Assessment.
A Non-Planner’s Guide to the Planning System
David has delivered this workshop as a successful two or three day programme. Firstly (with Charlie Falzon) to a group brought together by Countryside Training Services and subsequently to Natural England staff working in the north-west of England.
Colleagues from Natural England were particularly appreciative of the training – one commented at the end of the event that this was the “best training event ever in NE or RDS”. We started from first principles - assuming that at least some of the participants had little or no background knowledge of the planning system, and this enabled everyone to gain a really clear view of how the planning system works, and how they can best engage with it.
Improving people’s access to the Chatsworth parkland
Chatsworth is one of the iconic visitor destinations in England. Many people hear the word Chatsworth and think of the house, gardens and farmyard. But while a million paying visitors enjoy these attractions, they are set within a fantastic parkland which is enjoyed – at no cost – by the same number again. David worked with the Devonshire Educational Trust to see how we can improve people’s experience of visiting the park, how visitors can be encouraged to explore further, and how we can increase their understanding of what it is that makes this such a special place.
Having been in business for nearly 15 years we have worked on many more projects with a wide variety of different organisations. When we looked at the list of all our past work it seemed to fall into 3 main areas. To access our list of previous projects please click on the sidebar above or the links below:
Management
Training
Research
