This section contains guidance that has been developed specifically for the Norfolk Coast AONB regarding particular aspects of the area and its management. Most of this pre-dates the 2009-14 Management Plan, but it remains relevant.

Integrated landscape Character Guidance
Developed at the same time as the 2009-14 Management Plan, this provides detailed spatial information about the landscape, ecological and historic character of the area and guidance for management.
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Visitor Management Zones and Policies
This was originally produced as part of the 1995 AONB Visitor Management Strategy. It remains a concise summary of the sensitivity of different areas within the AONB to recreational pressures and approaches to managing them, agreed by the partners. A review is scheduled during the 2009-14 plan's lifetime.
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Bird hides guidance
Much of the AONB's coast is internationally important for its breeding and wintering birds, and a high proportion of coastal land, especially in the North Norfolk Heritage Coast, is managed as nature reserves. Originally developed in 1994 and revised and updated in 2002, the document is intended to provide guidance to assist in good design of facilities for bird watching, which takes account of the special qualities of the coastal landscape and its traditional buildings.
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Signing guidance
Although signs are often necessary, their visual impact, particularly on the wild and open landscapes of the Norfolk coast, can be intrusive. This succinct guidance to minimising such impacts was prepared by the Norfolk Coast Partnership Forum in 2005.

Norfolk Coast Transport Strategy
The AONB, and particularly the beaches, villages and nature reserves along the coast road (the A149 and B1159) are a major focus of tourism during peak holiday periods.

The original Norfolk Coast Transport Strategy was initiated by the Norfolk Coast Partnership and produced by Norfolk County Council in 1998, in recognition of the direct and indirect landscape and other impacts that traffic and related infrastructure, maintenance and highway modifications could have in the AONB. It covered an area considerably larger than the AONB, mainly in order to take account of the road network providing alternatives to the A149 coast road, and included a wider strategy area extending south to the A148 (between Kings Lynn and Holt) and west to the A149 (between North Walsham and Potter Heigham)..

The aim of the Strategy was "To identify a realistic and sustainable approach to the future management of traffic in the Norfolk Coast AONB which benefits the environment and local residents, and meets the need of tourism and other businesses"
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