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A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Improvements A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements TR010044 Volume 6 6.3 Environmental Statement Appendix 8.1: Background Information on Biodiversity Planning Act 2008 Regulation 5(2)(a) Infrastructure Planning (Applications: Prescribed Forms and Procedure) Regulations 2009 26 February 2021 A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements Environmental Statement – Appendix 8.1: Background Information on Biodiversity Infrastructure Planning Planning Act 2008 The Infrastructure Planning (Applications: Prescribed Forms and Procedure) Regulations 2009 A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements Development Consent Order 202[ ] Appendix 8.1 - Background Information on Biodiversity Regulation Number Regulation 5(2)(a) Planning Inspectorate Scheme TR010044 Reference Application Document Reference TR010044/APP/6.3 Author A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements Project Team, Highways England Version Date Status of Version Rev 1 26 February 2021 DCO Application Planning Inspectorate Scheme Ref: TR010044 Application Document Ref: TR010044/APP/6.3 A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements Environmental Statement – Appendix 8.1: Background Information on Biodiversity Table of contents Chapter Pages 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Background and scope of works 1 2 Method 2 2.1 Introduction 2 2.2 Published information 2 2.3 Local environmental records centre data 3 3 Habitats 4 3.1 Introduction 4 3.2 Agricultural land including field margins 5 3.3 Woodland 8 3.4 Orchards 9 3.5 Hedgerows 9 3.6 Rivers, streams and water bodies 10 3.7 Parkland 11 4 Flora 13 4.1 Introduction 13 4.2 Native plants 13 4.3 Non-native plants 16 5 Fauna 17 5.1 Introduction 17 5.2 Molluscs 17 5.3 Crustaceans 18 5.4 Insects 21 5.5 Fish 24 5.6 Amphibians 29 5.7 Reptiles 30 5.8 Mammals 33 6 Conclusions and summary 61 7 References 62 Annex A 71 Planning Inspectorate Scheme Ref: TR010044 Application Document Ref: TR010044/APP/6.3 A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements Environmental Statement – Appendix 8.1: Background Information on Biodiversity Table of Figures Figure 3.1: Map of Croxton Park (undated) (Source: British History Online (https://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/vol1/pp63-71)) ......................................... 11 Figure 5.1: Distribution of crayfish species in Bedfordshire up to 1999 (Source: Winter, 2000).................................................................................................................................. 19 Figure 5.2: The larger fish species of the River Great Ouse (Fenlake to Wyboston), 1983- 1985 survey data (Source: Anglian Water Authority in Nau et al. (1987)) .......................... 26 Figure 5.3: Number of tetrads in which bats were recorded in Bedfordshire from 1990 to 1999 (Source: Childs and Aldhous, 1999) ......................................................................... 35 Figure 5.4: Current and anticipated range of the Hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) in Bedfordshire (Bedfordshire Dormouse Group (Released November 2006 Last updated July 2010)..................................................................................................... 55 Figure 5.5: Current and anticipated range of the Hazel Dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) in Cambridgeshire (Hows et al., 2016) ......................................................... 56 Table of Tables Table 5-2: A summary of the pattern of frequency of reptiles in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire................................................................................ 31 Table 5-6: Summary of bat fauna of Bedfordshire, 1987-2017 .......................................... 36 5.8.12 Smith (1987) describes seven resident species of bat in the old Cambridgeshire, based upon the work of the first two years of the Cambridgeshire Bat Group, 1985-1986 (Table 5-7). (The group was founded in late 1984 in the wake of a University-based group.) In addition, a rare vagrant, the Particoloured Bat (Vespertilio murinus), had been recovered from a concrete road at Marshall's airport, Cambridge, in 1985, only the tenth record for the United Kingdom and the furthest inland. In 2004, the species list for the 'modern' county (i.e. former Cambridgeshire vc 29 plus former Huntingdonshire vc 31 and Peterborough) stood at 12 (Perrin, 2004) (Table 5-7). ........... 37 Table 5-7: Summary of bat fauna records for Cambridgeshire, 1985 - 2014 ..................... 37 Table 5-8: Summary of bat fauna records for Huntingdonshire, 1985 - 2010 .................... 40 Table 5-9: Recent records for Barbastelle in Bedfordshire, 2013-2017 (Cornes, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) .................................................................................................... 41 Table 5-10: Summary of Otter and American Mink data from surveys for Bedfordshire (1996 to 1997, 2003 to 2004, 2008 to 2009 and 2014 to 2015) (O = Otter; M = American Mink; - = no signs recorded, and italics indicates location as worked out from grid reference) (Proud and Lawrence, 2015) ............................................................................ 45 Table 5-11: Summary of signs of Otter in bridge sites across Cambridgeshire, 1992-2012 ........................................................................................................................................... 47 Planning Inspectorate Scheme Ref: TR010044 Application Document Ref: TR010044/APP/6.3 A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements Environmental Statement – Appendix 8.1: Background Information on Biodiversity 1 Introduction 1.1 Background and scope of works 1.1.1 As part of the A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements Scheme (the Scheme), a thorough search was undertaken for existing information on the habitats and species within the Order Limits and extended to consider the wider counties and districts of Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire through which the Scheme would pass, the Study Area. This review was undertaken to inform the Biodiversity assessment reported in Chapter 8, Biodiversity of the Environmental Statement [TR010044/APP/6.1]. 1.1.2 This appendix reports the results of this review of published information, data from the Local Environmental Records Centres: Bedfordshire and Luton Biodiversity Recording and Monitoring Centre (BLBRMC) and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Environmental Records Centre (CPERC), information obtained from maps and aerial photography and any recommendations arising from an analysis of this information. 1.1.3 Chapter 2, The Scheme of the Environmental Statement [TR010044/APP/6.1] provides the background and a description of the Scheme. 1.1.4 The information described in this appendix will: a. Provide a context for the Scheme and its environs. b. Describe the background of the habitats and species encountered or might be encountered within the Order Limits. c. Identify where survey effort is needed to investigate a particular habitat, species or group of species. d. Identify those habitats and species where survey effort is not warranted. e. Inform the baseline for the Scheme. 1.1.5 The review does not include birds as the accounts of the avifauna of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire are provided in a relatively coherent and comprehensive manner through annually published “Bird Reports” for Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire and regular books published on their avifauna including one for Huntingdonshire (Tebbutt, 1967) (REF 1-112), providing valuable reviews of the county’s birds. 1.1.6 The appendix begins by explaining how the data search was undertaken (Section 2 Method) followed by the results ordered by habitats, plant species/flora and animal species/fauna (Sections 3, 4 and 5 respectively), with a discussion of the results, recommendations arising from them and conclusions (Section 6). 1.1.7 The review of potential sources of information is an ongoing process and this appendix is a live document to which references will continue to be added by team members as new sources are found. At an appropriate point, the references will be converted to the standardised format as across the other appendices in Chapter 8, Biodiversity of the Environmental Statement [TR010044/APP/6.3]. Planning Inspectorate Scheme Ref: TR010044 1 Application Document Ref: TR010044/APP/6.3 A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet improvements Environmental Statement – Appendix 8.1: Background Information on Biodiversity 2 Method 2.1 Introduction 2.1.1 The data search was based on three main sources of information: a. Information derived from searching published information. b. Data requested from the two Local Environmental Records Centres. c. Information obtained from maps and aerial photography. 2.1.2 The focus of the review was those species protected by legislation including those listed on Section 41 of the Natural Environment Rural Communities Act 2006 (7REF 1-135) and those species covered by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and the Bedfordshire Biodiversity Action Plans. 2.2 Published information 2.2.1 The Study Area for this data search includes parts of Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and what was the county of Huntingdonshire (now Huntingdonshire District Council within Cambridgeshire). Until 1973, the recording of habitats, plant and animal species was organised on the basis of the three counties, known as vice-counties. Cambridgeshire was vice-county (vc) 29 (also known as “old Cambridgeshire”), Bedfordshire was vc 30 and Huntingdonshire was vc 31. Each vice-county had, and still has, recorders for some of the different groups of plants and animals, e.g. a mammal
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