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Objectives
- Maintain the existing important areas of lowland wet grassland by encouraging appropriate management.
- Restore degraded areas of lowland wet grassland by promoting appropriate management.
- Increase the amount of lowland wet grassland in appropriate areas by creation and re-creation.
Policy
- Ensure any examples of lowland wet grassland that meet the required criteria are given SBI status. (SBI Grading Committee)
- Ensure appropriate lowland wet grassland sites meeting the SSSI criteria are designated. (NE)
- Promote the use of Sustainable Drainage Systems in all new development from 2001. (SBAP Partnership)
Protection
- Lowland wet grassland has been listed as a costed Key Habitat in the UK Steering Group report.
- A number of sites containing unimproved lowland wet grassland have been notified as SSSIs.
- A number of sites containing unimproved lowland wet grassland have been classified as Grade 1 SBIs.
Management, Monitoring, Research and Survey
- Seek to restore and create further areas of lowland wet grassland in appropriate areas. (DEFRA, FWAG, Mineral Companies, SWMHP, Developers, FoM, TNF, Landowners)
- Seek to target all remaining lowland wet grassland for grant aid, such as Environmental Stewardship. (DEFRA, FWAG)
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Seek restoration / creation of grassland at a strategic level through restoration of gravel pits along the Trent and Tame corridors. (CRP)
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Identify four hydrological units in excess of ten hectares for restoration. (Minerals Companies)
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Seek to reinstate 'natural washlands' through flood storage. (EA, IDB)
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Ensure that flood defence schemes are undertaken in an ecologically sensitive manner. (EA, IDB)
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Identify opportunities for habitat creation, giving priority to those that link existing sites. (SWT)
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Ensure water level management plans are produced for all lowland wet grassland SSSIs. (NE, IDB)
Advisory
Further Information
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