An
outline of the developing Morecambe Bay Landscape
Partnership Scheme.
Morecambe Bay Partnership is leading the development of a
collaborative Heritage Lottery
Landscape Partnership Scheme around the Bay. The title for this is
Headlands to Headspace (H2H).
Our Vision
for Morecambe Bay:
We want to put local
people at the heart of managing and looking after the heritage
assets of the Bay for the long term, especially the very features
that local people value most.
Headlands to Headspace
offers the chance to make the Bay more distinctive and better
connected, more accessible to all, better appreciated and better
understood. The scheme will support communities to restore, enhance
and celebrate the natural and built heritage of Morecambe Bay,
within the context of it’s stunning landscape character.
Timescales:
Our aim is to submit to
Heritage Lottery at the end of February 2011. If this was
successful, then the development phase would run in 2011 & 2012 with
a 4-5 year delivery phase starting around 2013.
We held a
seminar/workshop in June 2010 at the Midland Hotel,
the
report is available here.
Landscape
Partnership Schemes:
The
Heritage Lottery Fund Landscape
Partnership Scheme
encourages the development of a portfolio of sub-projects against
four themes. They require large scale collaboration, to
deliver a range of projects for lasting community and heritage benefit across important landscapes
that are recognised and valued by local communities.
Our proposals
include
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Access improvements –
including
-
using the
railway stations as hubs to access the key natural and
cultural heritage sites and
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special
routes accessible for people with disabilities,
including visual impairment.
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Supporting the
sense of place through interpretation at the key sites
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Walney,
Piel, Urswick, Hoad Ulverston, Canal Foot, Flookburgh,
Hamspfell, Grange Promenade, Sandside, Arnside
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Silverdale, Warton Crag, Hest Bank, Morecambe Lodge, Red
Bank, Heysham Head, Sunderland Point, Cockerham
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Management of
our tidal islands (Walney, Sheep, Roa, Foulney and Chapel) to
improve the status of eider, shellduck and seals, and the
visitor experience
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Measures to
sensitively protect internationally important bird roost sites
(waterfowl and waders)
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Habitat
enhancement on coastal mosses and wetland to secure improved
habitats for bittern, curlew and lapwing, and management on
limestone cliffs and coastal limestone grassland for rare and
endemic plants and invertebrates
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A community
archaeology training project, looking at prehistoric sites and
stone circles which are poorly understood and largely overlooked
at Roose and Urswick
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An oral
history and dialect project - especially looking at the fishing
community at Flookburgh and Sunderland Point
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A community
archaeology, training and survey project at various locations
with a focus on historic ports, wharfs and fishing.
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New Museums
exhibitions and joint working between Lancaster Maritime and
Barrow Dock Museums
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Further
training and outreach programmes including
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safeguarding monuments (eg Adopt a Monument) and habitats (eg
limestone cliffs and coastal grassland)
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Morecambe
Bay in Wide-screen - about cherished views / viewpoints -
all cast within the context of the the Bays landscape
character.
Significance
of Morecambe Bay:
Morecambe Bay is one of
the great, overlooked heritage sites in Britain - a place of
-
international
importance for wildlife, with outstanding diversity of habitats
and species
-
stunning
views, an inspiring land and seascape, constantly changing as
the sands shift with the tides
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tremendous
cultural richness from prehistoric times to the present day,
including our famous cross-bay walks.
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