Diana's Peak National Park Proclamation

68 Land Planning and Development This e-version of the text is not authoritative for use in court. LAWS OF ST. HELENA Development up to 120m 2 floor area (full applications) or 0.1 ha (¼ acre) (outline development applications) £150 (refundable if Appeals Tribunal allows the appeal) Development over 120m 2 floor area (full applications) or 0.1 ha (¼ acre) (outline development applications) Twice the fee payable under item 1 or 2 but limited to £1,000 (non-refundable) 2. Where the development application includes more than one dwelling of identical design, the building regulations fee payable under item 3 of the table in paragraph 1 in respect of the second identical dwelling shall be reduced by one-third and on the third and subsequent identical dwellings by one half. 3. Where an application is submitted for approval of details after outline development permission has been granted and such application is in accordance with the requirements of such outline development permission, the applicable development permission fees payable under item 2 of the table in paragraph 1 shall be reduced by one-third. 4. The fees in the table in paragraph 1 shall be reduced by 50 per cent in the case of an application for development by— (a) a charitable organisation registered under the Charities Ordinance, 2005, for any charitable purpose carried on by such organisation as referred to in such Ordinance; or (b) a community association registered under the Community Centres Ordinance, Cap. 162, for purposes of providing any community facilities. 5. No fees are payable in respect of development undertaken solely to facilitate easier access by disabled persons to any buildings or land, or to the use of such buildings or land. DIANA‟S PEAK NATIONAL PARK PROCLAMATION (Gazette Notice 36 of 1996) WHEREAS: It is fitting and to the benefit of the people of St. Helena that there be established on St. Helena a National Park being an area of land which contains representative samples of features or scenery where plant and animal species, geomorphological sites and habitats are of special scientific, educational and recreational interest and which also contains one or several entire ecosystems that are not materially altered by human exploitation and occupation; It is also fitting that there be constituted for the National Park a management authority with jurisdiction over the Park that is empowered to take steps to prevent or eliminate as soon as possible exploitation or occupation in the Park, that is also empowered to take measures to protect the ecological, geomorphological or aesthetic features which led to the Park being established and that is further empowered to ensure that the Park is managed and developed so as to sustain recreational and educational activities on a controlled basis, and that is thereby able to ensure by virtue of its proper and effective exercise of those powers that the Park remains in a natural or near natural state with visitors entering under special conditions for inspirational, educational, cultural and recreational purposes. NOW THEREFORE I, the Governor of St. Helena and its Dependencies, as the person having, by virtue of section 51 of the Constitution of St. Helena, authority on behalf of Her Majesty to make and execute grants Land Planning and Development 69 This e-version of the text is not authoritative for use in court. LAWS OF ST. HELENA and dispositions of land in St. Helena which may be lawfully granted and disposed of by Her Majesty, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM the area of Crown land known as parcel number 170 in the Diana‘s Peak Ring Road Registration Section extending to 155.89 acres, the boundaries and extent of which are shown on the plan annexed hereto, to be the DIANA‘S PEAK NATIONAL PARK and I DO HEREBY FURTHER PROCLAIM that the Park is to be managed by a body of persons, to be known collectively as the Diana‘s Peak National Park Management Authority, appointed by me by notice in the Gazette who shall hold office at my pleasure and who shall manage the Park in accordance with the following principles, namely they are required to ensure that measures are taken— to protect and restore natural vegetation within the Park; to increase diversity of endemic and indigenous species inhabiting the Park; to retain and secure genetic diversity of threatened species in the Park; to protect the character of the landscape where this represents an asset to the natural beauty of St. Helena; to encourage access for visitors and to develop interpretation facilities to enhance their enjoyment and appreciation of the Park‘s natural assets; to publicize, both on St. Helena and overseas, the existence of the Park; to promote research to develop a better understanding of the Park‘s ecology; to protect and enhance water catchments to optimize sustained yields of good quality water; and who shall also undertake such other measures and act in such manner as I may from time to time direct and who shall advise me in respect of the Park as I may from time to time require or they may from time to time consider appropriate. Given under my hand and the Public Seal of St. Helena at the Castle, Jamestown this 3 rd day of April, 1996. ANNEXURE Plan Showing the Boundaries and Extent of the Diana‘s Peak National Park. 70 Land Planning and Development This e-version of the text is not authoritative for use in court. LAWS OF ST. HELENA DIANA‟S PEAK NATIONAL PARK