Stevenage Borough Council

Responsible in 56 actions

ID	Action title	Implementation phase	Site
GR1	Local Grassland Wildlife Sites - Update cutting and scrub management regimes	Implementation	Local Grassland Wildlife Sites
GR2	Martin's Way - Scrub cutting and treatment to be continued on a 3-year rotation.	Continuous	Martins Way (21/026)
GR3	Shackledell - Continue current scrub and grassland mowing regimes as in the management plan.	Continuous	Shackledell Grassland (29/041)
GR4	Triangular Grassland, Fairlands - Open up and cut/clear grassland, knock back & treat scrub margins.	Planning	Triangular Grassland (29/059)
GR5	Six Hills Common - Continue current mowing regime.	Continuous	Six Hills Common (29/042)
GR6	Whomerley Wood Road Verge - Continue current mowing regime.	Implementation	Whomerley Wood Road Verge
GR8	Poplar's Meadow - Re-establish rotational hay cutting regime. Cut circa 75% annually. Cut back scrub to create grass/scrub ‘scallops’.	Continuous	Poplars Meadow (30/009)
GR9	St Nicholas Churchyard - Instigate a more targeted, rotational cutting pattern.	Planning	St Nicholas Churchyard (21/025)
GR10	Symonds Green Common - Maintain and refine current hay cutting and scrub management.	Continuous	Symonds Green Common (21/022)
GR11	General Green Spaces - Review grassland areas and initiate strategic approach.	Implementation	Green Spaces
GR12	Stevenage Golf Course - Initiate discussions between Golf Course, SBC and HMWT	Not started	Stevenage Golf Course
GR13	Investigate potential LNRs, notably Shackledell Grassland.	Planning	Local Nature Reserves
WO1	Local Wildlife Sites - Update policies. Increase structural & species diversity, through coppicing, thinning and ride creation, softening woodland edges.	Implementation	Local Wildlife Sites
WO2	Sishes Wood - Continue removing non-native species. Increase structural diversity. Mark out pathways.	Implementation	Sishes Wood (22/002)
WO3	Martin's Wood - Introduce structural diversity through thinning, ride and glade creation.		Martin’s Wood (22/004)
WO5	Broadwater Marsh - Minimal intervention		Broadwater Marsh (29/038)
WO7	Monks and Whomerley Woods - Continue with coppicing, thinning, glade creation and conifer removal.	Implementation	Monks and Whomerley Woods (29/040)
WO8	Wiltshire's Spring - Minimal intervention in woodland, create 5m uncut buffer around wood.	Implementation	Wiltshire’s Spring (30/047)
WO9	Fisher's Green Wood - Potential for selected coppicing		Fisher’s Green Wood (21/049)
WO10	Marymead Spring - Remove poplars on safety grounds, minimal intervention for woodland management	Completed	Marymead Spring (30/041)
WO11	Ashtree Wood and Abbotts Grove - Thinning, ride and glade creation. Five year plan required.		Ashtree Wood & Abbotts Grove (30/028)
WO12	Pestcotts Wood - Thinning, ride and glade creation.		Pestcotts Wood (30/045)
WO13	Great Collens Wood - Thinning, ride and glade creation.		Great Collens Wood (30/043)
WO14	Hanging Hill Wood - Minimal intervention in woodland, create 5m uncut buffer around wood.		Hanging Hill Wood (22/041)
WO15	Wellfield Wood - Thinning, ride and glade creation. Remove conifers.		Wellfield Wood (22/005)
WO16	Blacknells Spring - Minimal intervention for woodland management	Implementation	Blacknells Spring (30/046)
WO17	Ridlins Wood - Continue thinning. Fell and thin Poplars, create ponds	Implementation	Ridlins Wood (30/003)
WO18	Almond Spring - Minimal intervention for woodland management	Implementation	Almond Spring (21/048)
WO19	Whitney Drive Wood - Minimal intervention for woodland management	Implementation	Whitney Drive Wood (21/047)
WO20	Valley Way Wood - Improve structure, remove invasive non-native species		Valley Way Wood (30/051)
WO21	Loves Wood - Conifer removal, thinning		Loves Wood (30/002)
WO22	All woods should be inspected regularly, with litter and fly tipping removed as necessary.		Litter and fly-tipping
WO23	Assess woodland sites to determine if any are eligible for designation as a Local Nature Reserve.		Local Nature Reserves
AH1	Kitching Green Lane - Requires hedgerow maintenance.	Implementation	Kitching Green Lane (29/018)
AH2	Review management & designation. Implement Hedgerow Conservation & Management Plans.	Planning	Non-designated sites
WE1	More strategic policies. Cutting regimes to maintain diverse marginal flora, management of pollutants & invasive non-native species.	Not started	Local Wildlife Sites
WE2	Ridlins Mire - Rotational cutting, consider grazing	Not started	Ridlins Mire (30/004)
WE4	FVP Main Lake - More rafts, if possible	Not started	FVP Main Lake
WE5	FVP Environment Lake - Extend grass buffer. Diversify scrub management.	Not started	FVP Environment Lake
WE6	FVP Balancing Pond - Vegetation and scrub management.	Continuous	FVP Balancing Pond
WE7	FVP No. 2 lake - Extend grass buffer. Diversify scrub management to enhance views.	Planning	FVP No 2 Lake
WE8	Poplars Pond - Continue management, increase buffer zone.	Not started	Poplars Pond (30/009)
WE9	Towers Pond - Rotational clearance of emergent vegetation.	Not started	Towers Pond
WE10	Whomerley Wood Moat - Open up by coppicing within boundary.	Not started	Whomerley Wood Moat (29/040)
WE11	Monks Wood Ponds - Continue rotational management.	Implementation	Monks Wood Ponds (29/040)
WE12	Symonds Green Ponds - Continue rotational management.	Implementation	Symonds Green Ponds (21/022)
WE13	Fishers Green Pond - Continue rotational management.	Implementation	Fishers Green Pond
WE14	Ascot Crescent Pond - Continue rotational management.	Implementation	Ascot Crescent Pond
WE15	Chalk Rivers - Raise awareness through campaigns and SBC magazine The Chronicle	Planning	Chalk Rivers
WE16	Stevenage Brook - Study to be carried out to investigate the potential for restoration.	Not started	Stevenage Brook
WE20	Investigate potential LNRs, notably Fairlands Valley Park.	Not started	Local Nature Reserves
NN1	Exeter Close - Ensure SBC policies protect Local Wildlife Sites.	Implementation	Exeter Close (22/036)
NN2	SBC policy to see Swift bricks on all new buildings.	Implementation	Buildings
NN3	Include guidance on gardening in the SBC magazine, the Chronicle.	Planning	Gardens
NN4	Include articles on ponds in the SBC magazine, the Chronicle.	Planning	Garden Ponds
NN5	Include guidance on allotments in the SBC magazine, the Chronicle.	Planning	Allotments