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Annex B – Conditions Relating to Licensed Badger Control On Licence Annex B: Provisions relating to licensed actions on or around Special Areas of Conservation (SACs), Special Protection Areas (SPAs), Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs), and/or Ramsar sites within the county of Leicestershire SSSI name European Licence condition Designated Site name (where applicable) Allexton Wood All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps SSSI to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of Rhododendron, Cherry Laurel scrub or conifer plantation. Ashby Canal SSSI No additional conditions proposed Bardon Hill Where this SSSI overlaps Bardon Hill SSSI, all vehicles must be Quarry SSSI restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint, or to areas of dense bracken/dense scrub/secondary woodland. Bardon Hill SSSI All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense bracken, dense scrub or conifer plantation. Barrow Gravel All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps Pits SSSI to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub, Rhododendron, Cherry Laurel scrub or conifer plantation. No trapping or driving of vehicles within wetland habitat. Beacon Hill, No licensed activities from 1st March to 31st August to avoid bird Hangingstone breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. and Out Woods Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas SSSI of dense bracken/dense scrub, Rhododendron, Cherry Laurel scrub or conifer plantation. Benscliffe Wood No additional conditions proposed SSSI Blackbrook No additional conditions proposed Reservoir SSSI Botcheston Bog All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps SSSI to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland, but must avoid all wet, marshy ground Bradgate Park No licensed activities from 1st March to 31st August to avoid bird and Cropston breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Reservoir SSSI Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or to areas of dense Bracken. No trap to be located within 30 metres of a tree with a trunk diameter greater than 1 metre at breast height. Breedon Cloud All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps Wood and to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of Rhododendron, Quarry SSSI Cherry Laurel scrub or conifer plantation. Breedon Hill SSSI All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of dense hawthorn scrub/secondary woodland. Buddon Wood All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps and Swithland to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub or Reservoir SSSI conifer plantation. No trapping or driving of vehicles within wetland habitat. Charnwood No licensed activities from 1st March to 31st August to avoid bird Lodge SSSI breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense bracken/dense scrub/secondary woodland, but must avoid all wet, marshy ground Chater Valley All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps SSSI to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland, but must avoid all wet, marshy ground Cliffe Hill Quarry No additional conditions proposed SSSI Coalville All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps Meadows SSSI to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland. Cotes Grassland All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps SSSI to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland. Donington Park All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps SSSI to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense Bracken, Rhododendron, Cherry Laurel scrub or conifer plantation. No trap to be located within 30 metres of a tree with a trunk diameter greater than 1 metre at breast height. Eye Brook Valley All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps Woods SSSI to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of Rhododendron, Cherry Laurel scrub or conifer plantation. Grace Dieu and All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps High Sharpley to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense bracken or SSSI conifer plantation. No trapping or driving of vehicles within wetland habitat. Holly Rock Fields All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps SSSI to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland. Ives Head SSSI No traps to be located within 20 metres of exposed south and west facing rock outcrops, in the immediate vicinity of the Ordnance Survey triangulation point. Kendall's All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps Meadow SSSI to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland. Lockington All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps Marshes SSSI to existing sett footprint. No trapping or driving of vehicles within wetland habitat. Loughborough All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps Meadows SSSI to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland. Lount Meadows All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps SSSI to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland. Main Quarry, No additional conditions proposed Mountsorrel SSSI Newhurst No additional conditions proposed Quarry SSSI Newton All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps Burgoland to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense Marshes SSSI scrub/secondary woodland. Oakley Wood All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps SSSI to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of Rhododendron, Cherry Laurel scrub or conifer plantation. One Barrow No additional conditions proposed Plantation SSSI Pasture and All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps Asplin Woods to existing sett footprint. SSSI Roecliffe Manor All operations permitted under this licence must avoid all formal lawn Lawns SSSI areas within this SSSI. Sheepy Fields All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps SSSI to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland. Sheet Hedges All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps Wood SSSI to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of Rhododendron, Cherry Laurel scrub or conifer plantation. Shepshed No additional conditions proposed Cutting SSSI Swithland Wood All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps and The Brand to existing sett footprint or to areas of dense bracken/dense SSSI scrub/secondary woodland within the grassland land parcel only. Ulverscroft All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps Valley SSSI to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub or conifer plantation, but must avoid all wet, marshy ground NOTES TO ANNEX B General note on interpretation: Protected sites that are listed above are not necessarily part of any active operations. Active operations can and will only occur on protected sites where landowner/occupier permission has been granted. Within the licence conditions, use of the word ‘avoid’ denotes a prohibition, i.e. it indicates that an area must be excluded from relevant activities or that activities must not be undertaken during the time period stated or in the manner described. Similarly, the word ‘restrict’ means that activities must be confined to the areas or time periods stated. For further details on each protected site and its notified features of special interest and/or European Site qualifying features please enter the site name into the following link: https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteSearch.aspx. Individual notes: Note A: Natural England will inform the licensee from time to time of the information it requires. This is likely to focus on whether fox control is routinely undertaken on the relevant site and/or on areas of participating land within a few kilometres of the site. The licensee is expected to use reasonable endeavours to assist Natural England with the gathering of this information. Note B: Natural England may form the judgment that measures should be introduced to secure the protection of species associated with this site, such as fox control, anti-predator fencing, habitat management, or buffer zones in which badger control is not undertaken. Such measures may be secured through cooperation between licensees, landowners, occupiers, and/or public bodies. If it considers it necessary to do so, Natural England may: exercise its powers under sections 28J-K of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 or regulation 20 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017; and/or revoke and re-issue this licence with revised terms (provided that such terms will be reasonable and proportionate
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