CHELMSFORD CITY COUNCIL LOCAL WILDLIFE SITE REVIEW 2016 CHELMSFORD CITY COUNCIL LOCAL WILDLIFE SITE REVIEW 2016 April 2016 Prepared by Essex Ecology Services Ltd. EECOS Abbotts Hall Farm, Great Wigborough, Colchester, Essex, CO5 7RZ 01621 862986,
[email protected] Company Registered No. 2853947 VAT Registered No. 945 7459 77 Chelmsford City Council Civic Centre Client Duke Street Chelmsford CM1 1JE Client Representative Claire Stuckey, Senior Planning Officer Author Adrian Knowles BSc FRES MIEEM, Senior Ecologist Approved By Neil Harvey BSc MIEEM, Manager of EECOS Report Status Final Date of Issue 7th April 2016 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EECOS, April 2016 Chelmsford City Council Local Wildlife Sites Review 2016 IMPORTANT NOTES Nomenclature and Definitions The very first report to identify a standardised suite of important wildlife sites within what was then Chelmsford Borough, produced in 1992, coined the term “Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation” (SINC). This was followed, in 2004, by a review of these sites under the term “Wildlife Site”. The current, generally accepted term of “Local Wildlife Site” (LoWS) has now been adopted throughout Essex. Where a building, other property or location is used in the name of a LoWS it is not being implied that ownership of that LoWS is associated with the property named. It is merely a descriptive use for ease of locating a piece of land that might have no publicly recognised name or other obvious geographical location. The Local Wildlife Sites Partnership for Essex would be pleased to receive details of more widely recognised names where they exist. In the report, when a location is referred to as a Site (with a capital S) this is an abbreviation that means it is a Local Wildlife Site.