UK Lead Organisation:

Objectives

• Maintain the existing important areas of lowland calcareous grassland, encouraging appropriate management and promoting environmentally sensitive management of adjoining land.
• Restore degraded areas of lowland calcareous grassland by promoting appropriate management.
• Increase the amount of lowland calcareous grassland in appropriate areas by creation and re-creation.

• Ensure any examples of lowland calcareous grassland that meet the required criteria are given SBI status. (SBI Grading Committee) 
• Ensure appropriate lowland calcareous grassland sites meeting the SSSI criteria are designated. (NE)
• Where existing quarry planning permissions threaten SSSI grasslands, seek to revoke them. (SWT)

• Environmental Stewardship provides grant aid for the management of unimproved calcareous grassland.
• Seek to restore and create further areas of lowland calcareous grassland in appropriate areas. (DEFRA, FWAG, Mineral Companies and Developers)
• Encourage the restoration of limestone workings to species-rich grassland using a local seed source. (SBAP Partnership)
• Seek to ensure that all good examples of lowland calcareous grassland are appropriately managed through the uptake of agri-environment schemes. (DEFRA, FWAG)
• Identify opportunities for habitat creation, giving priority to those that link existing sites. (SWT)

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  Seek to ensure that all landowners are aware of any management grants which may be available for calcareous grassland e.g. Countryside Stewardship. (DEFRA, FWAG)
• Promote the biodiversity and landscape value of calcareous grassland to the public and landowners. (SBAP Partnership)

• UK BAP