UK Lead Organisation:

Objectives

• Maintain the existing important areas of lowland wood-pasture and parkland.
• Restore degraded areas of lowland wood-pasture and parkland by promoting appropriate management.
• Increase the amount of lowland wood-pasture and parkland in appropriate areas by expansion.

• Ensure any examples of parkland that meet the required criteria are given SBI status. (SBI Grading Committee) 
• Ensure appropriate parkland sites meeting the SSSI criteria are designated. (NE)

• Lowland wood-pasture and parkland has been listed as a costed Key Habitat in the UK Steering Group report.
• A number of wood-pasture and parkland sites have been notified as SSSIs.
• A number of wood-pasture and parkland sites have been classified as Grade 1 SBIs.
• Species such as bats and some birds, which may utilise old trees, receive protection under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981and the EC Habitats and Species Directive.
• Felling licences are required for removal of over five cubic metres in any calendar quarter but do not protect against safety felling.  

• Seek to restore and expand further areas of lowland wood-pasture and parkland in appropriate areas. (FoM, TNF, SWT, LAs, Landowners and Developers)
• Seek to implement long-term site management plans for appropriate key sites using schemes such as Environmental Stewardship and the National Forest Tender Scheme. (DEFRA, FWAG, TNF)
• Where feasible, restore appropriate Forest Enterprise plantations back to wood-pasture. (FE)
• Carry out further survey work on key sites to identify interest and seek site designation. (SWT, SCC, NE)
• Monitor the creation, restoration and management of this habitat throughout the County. (SWT)

• Advise landowners on aspects of parkland and veteran tree management. (SWT)
• Promote the biodiversity and landscape value of lowland wood-pasture and parkland to the public and landowners. (SBAP Partnership, English Heritage)

• UK BAP