Decision

Areas of Outstanding National Beauty (AONB): extensions to the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB

The Secretary of State has decided to approve extensions to Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB.

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published
7 July 2020

Documents

Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB (designation variation) order 2019 (PDF version)

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Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB (designation variation) order 2019 (HTML version)

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Decision letter: South Coast and Heaths AONB

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Key map

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Details

Following a statutory and public consultation, Natural England published notice that it intended to vary the boundary of the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB in February 2019.

In July 2019, Natural England signed a variation order to extend the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB and submitted it to the Secretary of State for approval.

After careful consideration, Lord Gardiner of Kimble, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Rural Affairs and Biosecurity, has on behalf of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, approved the extensions without modification. The extensions came into effect on 7 July 2020.

The effect of this decision is to designate the specified additional areas of land as ‘Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty’ and for them to become part of the existing Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB. The additional areas cover approximately 38 square kilometres in Essex and Suffolk. They include:

  • the Stour Estuary (in Tendring and Babergh Districts)
  • the Samford Valley (in Babergh District)
  • the Freston Brook Valley (in Babergh District)

See our consultation page for further information.

Published 7 July 2020