Examples of Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in a sentence
You may want to consider identifying distinctive local landscape features or characteristics such as ponds, woodland or dry stone walls and think about how any new development proposals can respect and enhance local landscape character and distinctiveness.If you are proposing development within or close to a protected landscape (National Park or Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) or other sensitive location, we recommend that you carry out a landscape assessment of the proposal.
Designating an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty protects its distinctive character and natural beauty and can include human settlement and development.
This includes the Northumberland National Park, Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Reason: In the interests of visual amenities of the locality also to ensure that the development conserves and enhances the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Today the county has one of the best natural environments in the country, boasting some wonderful countryside from the unspoilt Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty of the North Pennines to the Durham Heritage Coast.