Actions

Local Grassland Wildlife Sites - Update cutting and scrub management regimes

Martin's Way - Scrub cutting and treatment to be continued on a 3-year rotation.

Shackledell - Continue current scrub and grassland mowing regimes as in the management plan.

Triangular Grassland, Fairlands - Open up and cut/clear grassland, knock back & treat scrub margins.

Six Hills Common - Continue current mowing regime.

Whomerley Wood Road Verge - Continue current mowing regime.

Stevenage Brook Marsh - More intensive cutting and scrub management regime required.

Poplar's Meadow - Re-establish rotational hay cutting regime. Cut circa 75% annually. Cut back scrub to create grass/scr…

St Nicholas Churchyard - Instigate a more targeted, rotational cutting pattern.

Symonds Green Common - Maintain and refine current hay cutting and scrub management.

General Green Spaces - Review grassland areas and initiate strategic approach.

Stevenage Golf Course - Initiate discussions between Golf Course, SBC and HMWT

Investigate potential LNRs, notably Shackledell Grassland.

Local Wildlife Sites - Update policies. Increase structural & species diversity, through coppicing, thinning and ride cr…

Sishes Wood - Continue removing non-native species. Increase structural diversity. Mark out pathways.

Martin's Wood - Introduce structural diversity through thinning, ride and glade creation.

Monk's Wood West - Rotational coppice over 10- year period.

Broadwater Marsh - Minimal intervention

Warren Springs - Minimal intervention

Monks and Whomerley Woods - Continue with coppicing, thinning, glade creation and conifer removal.

Wiltshire's Spring - Minimal intervention in woodland, create 5m uncut buffer around wood.

Fisher's Green Wood - Potential for selected coppicing

Marymead Spring - Remove poplars on safety grounds, minimal intervention for woodland management

Ashtree Wood and Abbotts Grove - Thinning, ride and glade creation. Five year plan required.

Pestcotts Wood - Thinning, ride and glade creation.

Great Collens Wood - Thinning, ride and glade creation.

Hanging Hill Wood - Minimal intervention in woodland, create 5m uncut buffer around wood.

Wellfield Wood - Thinning, ride and glade creation. Remove conifers.

Blacknells Spring - Minimal intervention for woodland management

Ridlins Wood - Continue thinning. Fell and thin Poplars, create ponds

Almond Spring - Minimal intervention for woodland management

Whitney Drive Wood - Minimal intervention for woodland management

Valley Way Wood - Improve structure, remove invasive non-native species

Loves Wood - Conifer removal, thinning

All woods should be inspected regularly, with litter and fly tipping removed as necessary.

Assess woodland sites to determine if any are eligible for designation as a Local Nature Reserve.

Kitching Green Lane - Requires hedgerow maintenance.

Review management & designation. Implement Hedgerow Conservation & Management Plans.

More strategic policies. Cutting regimes to maintain diverse marginal flora, management of pollutants & invasive non-nat…

Ridlins Mire - Rotational cutting, consider grazing

Barnwell School Pond - To introduce some native submerged vegetation

FVP Main Lake - More rafts, if possible

FVP Environment Lake - Extend grass buffer. Diversify scrub management.

FVP Balancing Pond - Vegetation and scrub management.

FVP No. 2 lake - Extend grass buffer. Diversify scrub management to enhance views.

Poplars Pond - Continue management, increase buffer zone.

Towers Pond - Rotational clearance of emergent vegetation.

Whomerley Wood Moat - Open up by coppicing within boundary.

Monks Wood Ponds - Continue rotational management.

Symonds Green Ponds - Continue rotational management.

Fishers Green Pond - Continue rotational management.

Ascot Crescent Pond - Continue rotational management.

Chalk Rivers - Raise awareness through campaigns and SBC magazine The Chronicle

Stevenage Brook - Study to be carried out to investigate the potential for restoration.

Aston Valley flood storage - Create pondscape with EA.

Wickes SuDS Scheme - Enhancement works

Roebuck SuDS - Enhancement works

Investigate potential LNRs, notably Fairlands Valley Park.

Exeter Close - Ensure SBC policies protect Local Wildlife Sites.

SBC policy to see Swift bricks on all new buildings.

Include guidance on gardening in the SBC magazine, the Chronicle.

Include articles on ponds in the SBC magazine, the Chronicle.

Include guidance on allotments in the SBC magazine, the Chronicle.