LICENCE ANNEX B: Summary of all restrictions relating to licensed actions on Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas and RAMSAR Sites within the county of Somerset
Protected sites that are within the assessment are not necessarily part of any active operations.
Active operations can and will only occur on protected sites where landowner permission has been granted.
SSSI Site Name European Site Licence Conditions Name (if applicable)
Aller and Beer Woods Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit
SSSI location of traps to existing sett footprint
Aller Hill SSSI Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or improved/ semi-improved/scrub grassland areas. Avoid localities of (Schedule 8 plant - Althaea hirsuta) Rough Marsh- mallow, consult Local Team for details
Asham Wood SSSI Mendip Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit Woodlands SAC location of traps to existing sett footprint Axbridge Hill and Fry's Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing established
Hill SSSI tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint, woodland or on improved/ semi-improved/scrub grassland areas. Avoid localities of Vascular Plant Species
Babcary Meadows SSSI Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July
Barle Valley Exmoor & Exclude SSSI or avoid woodland areas from all shooting Quantock trapping and vehicle use. Limit activity to outside bird Oakwood SAC nesting season (1st March - 31st July). Restrict vehicles to existing surfaced tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay until after hay cut, mid-July. Prohibit all shooting, trapping and vehicle use from within 100m of all watercourses. Avoid placing cage traps in the marsh/riparian wet areas, and do not dig cage traps in at dawn/dusk, this does not include setting the cage trap live (to catch) or for dispatching. Barrington Hill Vehicle movement restricted to existing tracks. Limit
Meadows SSSI location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July
Ben Knowle SSSI No additional conditions imposed
Berrow Dunes Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub. No digging in within the salt marsh. Avoid localities of vascular plants. Exclude the littoral sediment and supralittoral sediment and shingle zones.
Black Down and Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit
Sampford Commons location of traps to existing sett footprint. Blue Anchor to Lilstock No additional conditions imposed
Coast
Bridgwater Bay SSSI Severn Estuary Exclude SSSI or restrict activities to further than 200m SAC, SPA & outside of high tide roost areas or only allow activities Ramsar outside of the period 2hrs before, during and 2 hrs after high tide. Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Exclude the Littoral Sediment and Supralittoral Sediment and Shingle Zones. Avoid localities of vascular plant species.
Briggins Moor Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicle movements to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Brimble Pit and Cross No additional conditions imposed
Swallet Basins SSSI Bruton Railway Cutting No additional conditions imposed
SSSI
Burrington Combe SSSI Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to within the sett footprint Catcott Edington and Somerset Levels Exclude SSSI or no vehicular access to fields (restrict to
Chilton Moors & Moors SPA & droves/tracks). Restrict shooting activities to outside the Ramsar bird breeding season (no shooting between 1st March and 1st September). Avoid placing cage traps in the marsh/riparian wet areas, and do not dig cage traps in at dawn/dusk, this does not include setting the cage trap live (to catch) or for dispatching. Ensure traps are only attractive to target species.
Chancellor's Farm SSSI Vehicle movement restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July
Cheddar Reservoir SSSI Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Avoid shooting between the 1st September and 30th April in areas of intertidal, fen, reedbed and grazing marsh habitats
Cheddar Wood SSSI Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or improved/ semi-improved/scrub grassland areas. Avoid locations of plant species: Lithospermum purpureocaeruleum, (Purple Gromwell) and Carex depauperata, (Starved Sedge). Contact local team for details
Cleeve Hill Limit location of traps to within the sett footprint which is already disturbed ground; restrict vehicles to existing surfaced tracks. Restrict human activity in the corner of open ground where the Rough Marsh Mallow exists.
Cloford Quarry SSSI No additional conditions imposed
Cogley Wood SSSI Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint Cook's Wood Quarry No additional conditions imposed
SSSI Crook Peak to Shute Mendip Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps
Shelve Hill SSSI Limestone to existing sett footprint. Grasslands SAC Curry and Hay Moors Somreset Levels Exclude site
SSSI & Moors SPA & Ramsar
Deadman SSSI Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub Doulting Railway No additional conditions imposed
Cutting SSSI
Draycott Sleights SSSI Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub Dunster Park and Restrict vehicles to existing surfaced tracks. Limit location
Heathlands SSSI of traps to within the sett footprint which is already disturbed ground. East Polden Grasslands Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit
SSSI location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub
Ebbor Gorge SSSI Exclude SSSI and immediate surroundings - 20m from cave entrance. Restrict vehicles to tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint Edford Woods & Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit
Meadows SSSI location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July Emborough Quarries No additional conditions imposed
SSSI
Exmoor Coastal Heaths Exmoor Heaths Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit SAC location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub. Avoid localities of vascular plants. Exclude the littoral sediment and supralittoral sediment and shingle zones. Fivehead Arable Fields Exclude SSSI or avoid localities of vascualar plant species.
SSSI Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint Fivehead Woods and Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps
Meadow SSSI to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July
Freshmoor SSSI Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint
Friar's Oven SSSI Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or improved/ semi-improved grassland/scrub areas Ge-Mare Farm Fields Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps
SSSI to existing sett footprint
Glenthorne SSSI No additional conditions imposed
Godminster Lane No additional conditions imposed Quarry & Railway
Cutting SSSI Great Breach and Exclude SSSI or limit location of traps to existing sett
Copley Woods SSSI footprint or areas of rhododendron or conifer plantation; restrict vehicles to existing tracks
Greylake SSSI No additional conditions imposed
Grove Farm SSSI Vehicle movement restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay until after hay cut, mid-July
Ham Hill SSSI No additional conditions imposed
Hardington Moor SSSI Vehicle movement restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay until after hay cut, mid-July Hestercombe House Hestercombe Exclude site
SSSI House SAC
Hobbs Quarry SSSI No additional conditions imposed Holme Moor & Clean Exclude site or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit
Moor SSSI location of traps to existing sett footprint
Holway Hill Quarry SSSI Vehicle movement restricted to existing tracks. No digging in of traps in the area of geological features.
Holwell Quarries SSSI Vehicle movement restricted to existing tracks. No digging in of traps in the area of geological features.
Hurcott Farm No additional conditions imposed Hurcott Lane Cutting No additional conditions imposed
SSSI Kingdown and Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps
Middledown to existing sett footprint. Delay until after hay cut, mid- July
King's Sedgemoor SSSI Somerset Levels Exclude SSSI or no driving permitted in fields, restrict to & Moors SPA & tracks/droves. Restrict shooting activities to outside the Ramsar bird breeding season (no shooting between 1st March and 1st September). Avoid placing cage traps in the marsh/riparian wet areas, and do not dig cage traps in at dawn/dusk, this does not include setting the cage trap live (to catch) or for dispatching. Ensure traps are only attractive to target species. Kingweston Meadows Vehicle movement restricted to existing tracks. Limit
SSSI location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July
Lamb Leer SSSI No additional conditions imposed
Langford Heathfield SSSI Exclude site or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint Langmead and Weston Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Only cross at crossing
Level SSSI points. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July Langport Railway No additional conditions imposed
Cutting SSSI
Lang's Farm SSSI Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay until after hay cut, mid- July Laycock Railway Cutting No additional conditions imposed
SSSI
Leighton Road Cutting No additional conditions imposed
Long Lye Meadow SSSI Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July
Long Lye SSSI Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July
Low Ham SSSI No additional conditions imposed
Maes Down No additional conditions imposed Maesbury Railway No additional conditions imposed
Cutting Miller's Hill, Milborne No additional conditions imposed
Wick SSSI
Millwater SSSI No additional conditions imposed
Moon's Hill Quarry SSSI No additional conditions imposed
Moorlinch SSSI Somerset Levels Exclude SSSI or no driving allowed in fields, restrict to & Moors SPA & tracks/droves or restrict shooting activities to outside the Ramsar bird breeding season (no shooting between 1st March and 1st September).
Nettlecombe Park SSSI Avoid the 4 tagged Lichen trees in Unit 4. Restrict vehicles to existing surfaced tracks. All deadwood on the site must be left in place. Restrict vehicles to existing surfaced tracks North Brewham Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps
Meadows to existing sett footprint. Delay until after hay cut, mid- July North Curry Meadow Vehicle movement restricted to existing tracks. Limit
SSSI location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay until after hay cut, mid-July
North Exmoor Exmoor & Exclude SSSI or no activities until 1 August. Avoid all Quantock shooting, trapping and vehicle use in woodland areas. Oakwood SAC, Restrict vehicles to existing surfaced tracks. Limit location Exmoor Heaths of traps to existing sett footprint. Prohibit all shooting, SAC trapping and vehicle use from within 100m of all watercourses. Avoid placing cage traps in the marsh/riparian wet areas, and do not dig cage traps in at dawn/dusk, this does not include setting the cage trap live (to catch) or for dispatching.
North Moor SSSI Exclude SSSI or no driving allowed in fields, restrict to tracks/droves, restrict shooting activities to outside the bird breeding season (no shooting between 1st March and 1st September), Avoid placing cage traps in the marsh/riparian wet areas, and do not dig cage traps in at dawn/dusk, this does not include setting the cage trap live (to catch) or for dispatching. Ensure traps are only attractive to target species. Old Ironstone Works, Mells Valley SAC Exclude SSSI from 1st May to 30th September. Exclude
Mells SSSI buildings and tunnels and immediate surroundings - 20m. Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to the existing sett footprint Porlock Ridge and Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit
Saltmarsh location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub. Exclude the littoral sediment and supralittoral sediment and shingle zones. No digging in within the salt marsh.
Postlebury Wood Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint
Priddy Caves SSSI No additional conditions imposed
Priddy Pools SSSI Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub more than 250 metres from a pond. Prior's Park & Adcombe Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicle movements to existing
Wood SSSI tracks. Limit location of traps to within the sett footprint which is already disturbed ground or conifer plantation.
Quants SSSI Quants SAC Exclude SSSI or limit location of traps to within the sett footprint which is already disturbed ground; restrict vehicles to existing tracks, or delay until after hay cut, mid-July
Ringdown Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
River Barle Avoid crossing the river. Restrict vehicles to existing tracks, and existing fords if absolutely necessary to cross the river. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay until after hay cut, mid-July
Rodney Stoke SSSI Exclude SSSI or limit location of traps to within the sett footprint which is already disturbed ground or on improved/ semi-improved grassland/scrub areas ; restrict vehicles to existing tracks, Avoid locations of Rare Plant
Roebuck Meadows Exclude site or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint
Ruttersleigh SSSI Exclude SSSI or limit location of traps to within the sett footprint which is already disturbed ground rhododendron or conifer plantation or areas of scrub; restrict vehicles to existing tracks, Delay until after hay cut, mid-July Sandpit Hole and No additional conditions imposed
Bishop's Lot SSSI
Seavington St. Mary No additional conditions imposed
SSSI
Shapwick Heath SSSI Somerset Levels Exclude SSSI or No vehicular access to fields (limit to & Moors SPA & droves/tracks), restrict shooting activities to outside the Ramsar bird breeding season (no shooting between 1st March and 1st September), Exclude Woodland Areas, Avoid placing cage traps in the marsh/riparian wet areas, and do not dig cage traps in at dawn/dusk, this does not include setting the cage trap live (to catch) or for dispatching. Ensure traps are only attractive to target species. Sharpham Moor Plot Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicle movements to existing
SSSI tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Shepton Montague No additional conditions imposed
Railway Cutting SSSI Snowdon Hill Quarry No additional conditions imposed
SSSI
South Exmoor Exmoor Heaths Exclude SSSI or restrict shooting activities to outside the SAC bird breeding season (no shooting between 1st March and 1st September). Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or large areas of scrub Southey and Gotleigh Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit
Moors SSSI location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub
Southlake Moor SSSI Somerset Levels Exclude SSSI or no driving allowed in fields, restrict to & Moors SPA & tracks/droves, Avoid placing cage traps in the Ramsar marsh/riparian wet areas, and do not dig cage traps in at dawn/dusk, this does not include setting the cage trap live (to catch) or for dispatching. Ensure traps are only attractive to target species.
Sparkford Wood Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint St. Dunstan's Well Mells Valley SAC Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps
Catchment to the existing sett footprint
Stowell Meadow SSSI Exclude SSSI or vehicle movement restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Street Heath SSSI Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint
Tealham and Tadham Somerset Levels Exclude SSSI or no vehicular access to fields (restrict to
Moors SSSI & Moors SPA & droves/tracks). Restrict shooting activities to outside the Ramsar bird breeding season (no shooting between 1st March and 1st September). Avoid placing cage traps in the marsh/riparian wet areas, and do not dig cage traps in at dawn/dusk, this does not include setting the cage trap live (to catch) or for dispatching. Ensure traps are only attractive to target species. The Cheddar Complex North Somerset No access within 20m of cave entrances on SSSI. Restrict
SSSI & Mendip bats vehicles to existing tracks. Avoid localities of the vascular SAC plant species. Exclude the littoral sediment and supralittoral sediment and shingle zones. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint
The Perch SSSI Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint
The Quantocks SSSI Exmoor & Exclude SSSI/SAC or exclude woodland areas from all Quantock shooting, trapping and vehicle use. All vehicles must be Oakwood SAC restricted to existing tracks when accessing the site. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Prohibit all shooting, trapping and vehicle use from within 100m of all watercourses. Avoid placing cage traps in the marsh/riparian wet areas, and do not dig cage traps in at dawn/dusk, this does not include setting the cage trap live (to catch) or for dispatching.
Thrupe Lane Swallet No additional conditions imposed Thurlbear Wood and Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps
Quarrylands SSSI to existing sett footprint or improved/ semi- improved/scrub grassland areas, or areas of rhododendron or conifer plantation Twinhills Woods and Exclude SSSI or restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit
Meadows location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July
Vallis Vale Mells Valley SAC Restrict vehicle movements to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Viaduct Quarry SSSI No additional conditions imposed Walton and Ivythorn Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps
Hills SSSI to existing sett footprint
West Moor SSSI Somerset Levels Exclude site & Moors SPA & Ramsar
West Sedgemoor SSSI Somerset Levels Exclude SSSI or no vehicular access to fields (restrict to & Moors SPA & droves/tracks). Restrict shooting activities to outside the Ramsar bird breeding season (no shooting between 1st March and 1st September).
Westhay Heath SSSI Somerset Levels Exclude SSSI or no vehicular access to fields (restrict to & Moors SPA & droves/tracks). Restrict shooting activities to outside the Ramsar bird breeding season (no shooting between 1st March and 1st September). Avoid placing cage traps in the marsh/riparian wet areas, and do not dig cage traps in at dawn/dusk, this does not include setting the cage trap live (to catch) or for dispatching. Ensure traps are only attractive to target species. Westhay Moor SSSI Somerset Levels Exclude SSSI or no vehicular access to fields (restrict to & Moors SPA & droves/tracks). Restrict shooting activities to outside the Ramsar bird breeding season (no shooting between 1st March and 1st September). Avoid placing cage traps in the marsh/riparian wet areas, and do not dig cage traps in at dawn/dusk, this does not include setting the cage trap live (to catch) or for dispatching. Ensure traps are only attractive to target species.
Wet Moor SSSI Somerset Levels Exclude SSSI or no vehicular access to fields (restrict to & Moors SPA & droves/tracks). Restrict shooting activities to outside the Ramsar bird breeding season (no shooting between 1st March and 1st September).
Whitevine Meadows Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint
Windsor Hill Marsh SSSI Vehicle movement restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July
Windsor Hill Quarry SSSI Vehicle movement restricted to existing tracks. No digging in of traps in the area of geological features.
Wookey Hole SSSI North Somerset Exclude SSSI and immediate surroundings - 20m from & Mendip bats cave entrance. Restrict vehicles to existing tracks. Limit SAC location of traps to existing sett footprint or improved/ semi-improved/scrub grassland areas
Wookey Station SSSI No additional conditions imposed
Woolhayes Farm SSSI Vehicle movement restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July Wurt Pit and Devil's No removal of minerals from site and avoid excessive
Punchbowl SSSI disturbance when digging in traps. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub