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State of the AONB Report, March 2019 State of the AONB Report March 2019 Evidence Base Contents This section contains the latest available AONB Condition Indicators 3 statistics and information relating to Natural Environment 5 the AONB. It is not comprehensive and only contains a selection of the data Historic Environment 12 that is likely to be available for the area. Local Communities 14 Some of the information is also quite old, because resources haven’t been Agriculture 17 available to re-run the analysis of datasets, Forestry & Woodland 21 so should be treated with caution. Development & Rural Economy 25 For a wider discussion of some of the Roads, Transport & Traffic Management 31 generic issues, or to track the evolution Recreation, Access & Tourism 32 of policies, please refer to previous versions of the AONB Management Plan. Resources/Implementation 35 State of the AONB Report March 2019 State of the AONB Report March Howardian Hills AONB Howardian www.howardianhills.org.uk 2 N.B. The colours are used to indicate the trend in the Indicator, i.e. Red = deterioration, Green = improvement, irrespective of whether the number itself is positive or negative. Colour is not used where the data is purely factual or where a judgement of deterioration/improvement is not applicable. The percentage figures in the Trend column are percentage points, not proportions. Trend in comparison Attribute Indicator 2018 to 2014 1. Farmed Landscape a) % of Agricultural Farmland managed under a Higher a) 26% a) +25% Tier-type Stewardship agreement (HLS & HT) b) % of Agricultural Farmland managed under a b) 2% b) -19% Mid Tier-type Stewardship agreement (MT) c) % of Agricultural Farmland managed under an c) 4% c) -48% Entry Level-type Stewardship agreement (ELS) d) Changes in farmland type (% of long-term d) 21% / 6% / 67% d) -3% / -1% / +4% grassland/temporary grassland/arable land) 2. Woodland Landscape a) % of woodland cover a) 16.3% a) No change b) % of woodland under management b) 78% b) +7% 3. Biodiversity a) Condition of SSSIs a) Favourable – 40% a) -1% Unfavourable Recovering – 68% +16% Unfavourable no change – 2% No change Unfavourable Declining – 0% -5% b) Delivery of LBAP habitat targets for b) Basic assessment: b) AONB – Condition of SINCs 80-100% Favourable – 26% -17% 40-80% Favourable – 23% -12% State of the AONB Report March 2019 State of the AONB Report March <40% Favourable – 7% +3% Unknown – 44% +26% Howardian Hills AONB Howardian www.howardianhills.org.uk 3 Trend in comparison Attribute Indicator 2018 to 2014 4. Historic and Built a) Number of Archaeological features in the At Risk, a) 31; 26; 22 a) +4;+1; -5 Environment Vulnerable and Low/Not at Risk categories b) Condition of Registered Parks & Gardens b) RPG At Risk – 0; Non-RPG Parkland b) -1; N/A and historic landscapes – Condition not assessed c) Number of Buildings and Structures on ‘at Risk’ registers c) Grade I & II* – 3; Grade II – 10 c) -1; No change d) Number of Conservation Areas on the ‘At Risk’ Register d) 0 d) No change e) Number of Places of Worship on the ‘At Risk’ Register e) 0 e) No change f) Condition of non-designated Historic f) Basic assessment: f) Environment Priority Sites 80-100% Favourable – 37% +6% 40-80% Favourable – 15% -23% <40% Favourable – 13% +6% Unknown – 35% +22% 5. Water Quality (Rivers) Length of rivers (%) with ‘High’ or ‘Good’ Ecological High – 0% No change Status (Water Framework Directive). Good – 7.66% No change 6. Tranquillity a) Maximum and minimum Tranquillity a) +48; -19.9 No new data scores (CPRE/NE study). b) % of AONB in the relative High or Very b) 55% N/A High categories (CPRE/NE study). 7. Enjoying the ‘Ease of Use’ (%) of PRoW No data N/A Countryside 8. Village Services/ % of AONB villages that have a shop, pub, Post Shop – 18% -9% State of the AONB Report March 2019 State of the AONB Report March Amenities Office service or community building Pub – 36% -3% Post Office service – 18% +3% Community building/space – 73% +3% Daily bus service – 51% +6% Some bus service – 18% -34% 9. Awareness of the % of survey respondents aware of the 67% No new data AONB designation Howardian Hills AONB designation Howardian Hills AONB Howardian www.howardianhills.org.uk 4 Natural Environment 2014 – 2019 Facts and Figures • Participated annually in the newly • Completed clearance of rhododendron • Contributed significantly to the established Biodiversity Action in Park Wood adjacent to Yearsley development of the National Lottery Partnership for the Howardian Hills, Moor Woodlands SINC. Significant Heritage Fund-supported Turtle Doves Ryedale and Scarborough. (JAC) clearance was carried out by the FC and Project within the AONB, with site landowner under a Plant Health Notice, visits arranged, schools involved and • Carried out 70 workdays with to remove rhododendron inflected with volunteers trained for Spring 2018 and volunteers on SINCs/SSSIs. (JAC) Phytophthora ramorum. (JAC, FC) 2019 surveying. (JAC, NYMNPA) • Funded 73 new in-field/boundary • Carried out rotational scrub management • Provided funding and advice for the trees and 2 copses. (JAC) at Terrington Carr SINC, as well as creation of nature areas at Amotherby scrub removal at Nunnington Cutting & churchyard, Slingsby school and • Continued conservation grazing Quarries SSSI, Peel Wood & Grasslands Westow sports ground (JAC) of up to 7 grassland SINCs each SINC, Littledale SINC, Amotherby Lane year by Exmoor ponies. (JAC) SINC and Cawton Fens SINC. (JAC) • Provided funding for bird, owl and bat boxes at The Yorkshire • Managed 45 Special Interest • Carried out clearance of Arboretum and Terrington. (JAC) Road Verges each year. (JAC) rhododendron on Grimston Moor State of the AONB Report March 2019 State of the AONB Report March • Became involved with the North • Continued control of Himalayan balsam SINC and Coulton Moor. Yorkshire Local Geological Sites on approx. 5.8km of Wath Beck, at Jeffry • Contributed significantly to the Partnership for the first time in 2015 Bog SINC and at Fairy Dell SINC. (JAC) development of the National Lottery with subsequent commissioning of a • Began Himalayan balsam control Heritage Fund-supported Ryevitalise Geodiversity Audit to survey and map at Mugdale & Barker Woods SINC Project. The project will tackle Himalayan the AONB’s most important geodiversity and River Derwent SSSI. (JAC) balsam, river quality and sedimentation sites. 85 site surveys completed, with 16 on a catchment scale and foster sites identified and subsequently ratified • Carried out management works community engagement. (JAC) as Local Geological Sites. (JAC) on a total of 14 grassland sites Howardian Hills AONB Howardian www.howardianhills.org.uk (all SSSI/SINC bar two). (JAC) 5 • Entered work carried out in the AONB Land Cover Land Cover Map Area within HHAONB in 2013/14, 2014/15 and 2015/16 into A Phase 1 survey in 1992 categorised Broad Habitat Class (ha) – 2007 the Government’s Biodiversity Action the habitats of the AONB and Land Acid Grassland 9 Recording System, although it has Cover Map statistics from 2007 are also Arable & Horticulture 11,480 subsequently been discontinued. (JAC) Broad leaved, mixed available. Whilst not a direct comparison, 2,196 & yew woodland they do provide a time-series of data. • Attended meetings of the North Yorkshire Built up area 94 and gardens & York Local Nature Partnership, Area within HHAONB Phase 1 Habitat Types Calcareous grassland 3 following the appointment of a part- (ha (1992) Coniferous woodland 1,019 time co-ordinator in 2017, and agreed Arable , Improved a contribution to a continuation Grassland, Urban 15,912 Dwarf shrub heath 96 funding package in 2018. (JAC) and Amenity Fen, marsh and swamp 1 Plantation Woodland 2,424 Freshwater 62 • Contributed funding and advice Semi-natural Woodland Improved grassland 4,349 360 to the Carstairs Countryside Trust and Scrub Inland rock 5 Cornfield Flowers Project. (JAC) Unimproved Grassland 360 Neutral grassland 380 Semi-improved Rough low-productivity 1,167 726 • Contributed to the production of a Grassland grassland strategy for the River Derwent catchment Tall herb/fern, Rock Total 20,420 90 project and continued attendance and Waste Based upon LCM2007 © NERC (CEH) 2011. © Open water, Mire at steering group meetings. (JAC) 90 Crown Copyright 2007, Ordnance Survey Licence and Swamp number 100017572. © Third party licensors State of the AONB Report March 2019 State of the AONB Report March Total 20,403 • Put forward Gilling East and Hovingham Morton, D., Rowland, C., Wood, C., Meek, L., villages for inclusion in a Defra-funded Southern Ryedale and Howardian Hills Marston, C., Smith, G., Simpson, I.C. 2011. Final Natural Flood Management project. (JAC) AONB Phase I survey 1992. report for LCM2007 – the new UK land cover map. CS Technical Report No 11/07 NERC/Centre for Ecology • See also the Condition Indicators on & Hydrology 112pp. (CEH project number: C03259). p.3-4 for other relevant statistics. Howardian Hills AONB Howardian www.howardianhills.org.uk 6 Priority Habitats The targets for BAP Priority Habitat The extent of Priority Habitat types creation for National Character Area within the AONB is shown below: 29 (Howardian Hills) contained in the Government’s Biodiversity 2020 Area within HHAONB Priority Habitats strategy are shown in the table below: (ha) (2017) Lowland Calcareous Area to be created 11 Priority BAP Habitats Grassland within NCA29 (ha) Good quality semi- Lowland Wood Pasture 93 50 improved grassland and Parkland Lowland Meadows 27 Traditional Orchards 15 Purple Moor Grass Ponds 5 (0.05ha each) 1 & Rush Pastures Arable Field Margins 150 Reedbeds 1 Lowland Meadows 10 Lowland Fens 68 Purple Moorgrass 25 Traditional Orchard 8 and Rush Pastures Deciduous Woodland 1,511 Upland Flushes, 20 Floodplain Fens and Swamps 159 Grazing Marsh Total 275 All Priority Habitats 1,786 In SSSI or HLS NCA Size Class 1 (Small) 232 Agreement NCA Habitat 4 (High) Fragmentation Class State of the AONB Report March 2019 State of the AONB Report March © Natural England copyright.
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