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The North Norfolk Food and Drink Festival takes place at Holkham on 4-5 September where many of the local producers featured in our free directory will be present - why not go along and try them out for yourself. As featured in the 2010 Norfolk Coast Guardian - we are always looking for further entrants to promote in our Local Products Directory'. Entry on this web based directory is completely free so why not check out the on-line directory or give us a call.
Septembr 2010''

Does your project need some money? Grants are now available for sustainable projects taking place within the Norfolk Coast AONB. Projects must have community support and involvement and demonstrate long term benefits for the Norfolk Coast.

To find out more see Sustainable Development Fund

If you live or spend time in the AONB and would like to spend some of your spare time helping to celebrate and look after the area, this may be of interest to you. The group is free to join and provides an opportunity for you to take part in a wide range of activities led by ourselves or our partner organisations. You will be able to meet and share experiences with like-minded people, as well as find out more about the area and if you like, learn new skills. For more information about the Friends and activities you could get involved in this year, click here: Friends of the Norfolk Coast
February 2010

Check out the super on-line version now! We're still busy getting the associated documents together and putting on so add to your favourites. 2009-14 Management Plan section
December 2009

On Tuesday December 1, 2009 the Secretary of State announced the outcome of the coastal change pathfinder scheme. 15 local authorities have been selected as pathfinders to explore new approaches to planning for, and managing, adaptation to coastal change together with their communities, using the £11 million coastal change fund (see www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmhansrd/cm091201/wmstext/91201m0001.htm#09120133000080).

Further details can be found on the Defra website: http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/flooding/manage/pathfinder/index.htm

For details of the North Norfolk Pathfinder visit the North Norfolk District Council's website where information and newsletters can be found. (Latest Pathfinder newsletter also available here)

    

Defra has announced that the Marine and Coastal Access Bill received Royal Assent on 12 November 2009, creating the Marine and Coastal Access Act. No other country in the world has successfully introduced a single piece of legislation to protect the marine environment and the Act will create a new marine planning system designed to bring together the conservation, social and economic needs of our seas.
Click here to access Defra's news page
(12 November 2009)

Click here to access to the Natural England website, which contains more information about the new Act.

In addition, Natural England issued a press release on 31 July 2009 summarising the results of their audit of coastal access, including links to maps showing where we have good clear access along the coast and also where, although there may be informal access, there is no permanent right of access. Click here to read their press release
(July 09)

The Environment Agency is consulting on the North Norfolk SMP area covering the northfacing part of the Norfolk shoreline between the cliffs at Hunstanton and Weybourne. More details and links here
(July 2009)

The Norfolk Coast is a special place for people as well as wildlife, but how can we make sure the two get on together – that people “share with care”?

For two months during July and August 2009, a pilot initiative aimed at increasing people’s understanding of the sensitivities of birds on the coast, and how to share the coast with them, is taking place on the North Norfolk Heritage Coast. The two main reserves involved are the RSPB’s Titchwell Marsh and the National Trust’s Blakeney Point, with the Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s Holme Dunes reserve also taking part in a more limited way.

The pilot is led by the Wash and North Norfolk Coast European Marine Site Management Scheme , with funding from the Norfolk Coast Partnership and the Sustainable Development Fund for the AONB.

Find out more about the pressures faced by coastal birds and how you can avoid adding to these when you visit the coast by visiting the web site specially set up for this pilot Share With Care

Removing overhead lines in our most precious landscapes
EDF Energy, the electricity network distribution company for the region, is nearing completion of work on a major scheme to remove overhead wires and poles near Holme-next-the-Sea. This is the second scheme in the Norfolk Coast AONB to be funded through a scheme for protected landscapes agreed by Ofgem, the Government’s electricity regulator, following the smaller scheme near Nelson’s birthplace at Burnham Thorpe in Spring 2007.
(January 2009)

Sustainable Development Funding is available for any individual, community or volunteer group or business that has a great idea, which will benefit the environment and people of the area.

So, if you have any ideas or know of anyone else who does, you can find out more in the SDF section of this website and feel free to contact Kate Dougan kate.dougan@norfolk.gov.uk (Community & External Funding Officer), for more information.

£3.8 million win for rural projects in the Norfolk Coast and Broads
An application led by local people to promote the communities, businesses and enterprises in the Norfolk Coast and Broads area has won just under £4 million of funding awarded by the East of England Development Agency (EEDA) through the Rural Development Programme for England.
(July 2008)
RDPE Leader - Norfolk Coast and Broads
The aim of the Norfolk Coast and Broads programme is to use the exceptionally high value environment and landscape as a catalyst to business and community development and growth.
Find out more here (June 2009)

Local Development Strategy
A (2.2MB) version of the bid (LDS) is available on the Rural Advice website or open the low resolution (550kb) pdf version on the left.

Making old buildings energy efficient - a guide produced by Norfolk County Council in 2008 can be found on the Norfolk County Council website via this link.
(May 2008)

A one stop shop website for access information is under development for the Norfolk Coast AONB and the wider county of Norfolk.

Working with colleagues in the Norfolk county council access team we aim to develop a publicly accessible website carrying all forms of access information. Collation of data on access provided by the Rights of Way network, county roads and lanes, licence footpaths, open access arrangements, agri-environment schemes and other access provided by private and public landowners has been completed.

Much of the data will be ‘live’ ensuring the information is up to date.

It is hoped to make the information accessible on the internet this summer, making Norfolk the first county in the country to provide all access information in one place. It is planned to add further layers of information as the site develops, increasing peoples' enjoyment and understanding of this special place.
(2009)