Countryside Management Partnership
Countryside Management Partnership
Partnership
The Medway Swale Estuary Countryside Management Partnership works in our part of Kent to improve access to and understanding of Kent's countryside, as well as enhancing natural landscapes and habitats. Kent County Council has produced a short film explaining the work it does which can be found on KCC's Digital Kent Video Player.
Countryside Management Partnerships are local conservation management specialists. Essentially, they are people and organisations that have the skills and access to resources to help get land into tip-top ecological condition, and to promote its use to local people.
They are:
- Local stakeholders,
- Local authorities,
- Local industry, and
- Local volunteers
The partnerships work with owners of land (parish councils, schools, companies and farmers) to improve access to the countryside by:
- Enhancing natural landscapes and wildlife habitats,
- Improving access onto and around the site
- Helping the community (schools, businesses, and individuals) to visit and use it, and
- Promoting knowledge of the countryside
This is ‘conservational management’, and many owners of land need help to do it well. The partnerships co-operate with one another and with bodies like the Wildlife Trust and the RSPB, to make sure we pool our resources as much as possible to achieve as much as we can with the funds available.
More Information
More information can be found on the KCC Countryside Management Partnership page.
Contact Details:
Email - cmp@kent.gov.uk
Phone - 08458 247600
