The Management Plan for the Chilterns National Landscape

All National Landscapes must publish a management plan and promote its implementation by a wide range of organisations, including local authorities, government agencies, community groups and landowners.

In most National Landscapes, local authorities prepare this plan, but in the Chilterns it is prepared by the Chilterns Conservation Board (CCB) on behalf of, and in partnership with, the local authorities, communities and other stakeholders who have an interest in the landscape and can help to bring the plan’s vision into reality. The plan usually runs for five years and is then reviewed to see if its content needs to be updated.

The current plan for the Chilterns is called “Caring for the Chilterns forever & for everyone: The area of outstanding natural beauty management plan for the Chilterns National Landscape, 2025-2030”. It contains a comprehensive summary of the key issues facing the National Landscape and the management policies and actions needed to conserve this special place. It was adopted by the Conservation Board in June 2025 in the form of a schedule of amendments to the text of the previous plan for 2019-2024, which was extended to 2025 by order of the Secretary of State.

While we prepare a fully designed version of the plan for publication, the vision, aims and objectives of the plan are set out in the Schedule of Amendments, which is best read alongside the former plan. We have also produced, for illustrative purposes only, a “clean” version of the text of the plan as it should be when published – the Schedule of Amendments is, however, the definitive version.

Alongside these representations of the plan, we have produced a Report of Review, which sets out what we have done to review the plan and why. We have also published ‘screening’ reports for strategic environmental assessment (SEA) and “appropriate assessment” under the Habitats Regulations (HRA), which explain what we have done to take statutory requirements for understanding environmental impacts into account.

You can download these documents below.