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Annual Report for 2014/15

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Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre: Annual Report for 2014/15

Contents

1. Summary of Key Activities for 2014/15 ...... 3 2. Staffing & Contact Details ...... 4 3 Habitat Survey Programme ...... 5 4. SINC Programme ...... 9 5 Provision of Data ...... 11 6 Screening of Planning Applications and Road Works ...... 14 7 Data Holdings ...... 15 8 Additional Community Recording inc. Living Record ...... 18 9 Updating the GIS habitat layer ...... 20 10 IT Development & Improvements ...... 21 11. Financial Statements ...... 22 12. HBIC Annual Recorders Forum March 2015 ...... 25

Tables

Table 1 : Summary of HBIC staff roles and contact details...... 4 Table 2 : Request for Surveys Allocated to each Partner ...... 5 Table 3 : Summary of SINCs submitted to Panel ...... 9 Table 4 : Time spent on evaluation of SINCs ...... 10 Table 5 : GIS data to Partners ...... 11 Table 6 : Data requests summary...... 12 Table 7: Data requests allocated to each partner...... 12 Table 8 : Data requests by type of enquirer ...... 13 Table 9 : Planning applications screened by partner ...... 14 Table 10 : Screening Road Works ...... 14 Table 11:Total Species data holdings by database ...... 15 Table 12:MapMate Holdings ...... 15 Table 13: Recorder Holdings ...... 16 Table 14 : Living Record Verification ...... 18 Table 15 : Survey updates outstanding on the GIS Habitat layer ...... 20 Table 16 : Projected and actual expenditure and income ...... 22 Table 17: Predicted Income from Partners ...... 23 Table 18: Local Recorders Fund ...... 24

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1. Summary of Key Activities for 2014/15

The following is a summary of the main activities undertaken by the Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre during 2014/15. a. The delivery of services to 25 funding partners set through Service Level Agreements & Data supply Agreements. Includes field survey & provision of comprehensive GIS data b. Reported to the HBIC Steering Group which meets twice a year in January & July and the HBIC Users Advisory Group which meets twice a year in May and October. c. Organised the 12th Annual HBIC Recorders Forum attended by 65 local recorders and recording groups - see page 24 d. Carried out a Habitat Survey Programme (Phase 2/NVC) of 256 sites (down from 313 last year) which included a review of 130 Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation (up from 121 last year). e. Imported 425,852 new species records through on-going Data Exchange Agreements with the species recording groups, other individuals, and HBIC’s own survey programme. The Recorder and MapMate databases now hold 5,289,984 species records up 8% on last year, and are used to assist the evaluation of Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINCs), and to refresh the notable species GIS dataset to inform decision making. f. Responded to 713 requests for biodiversity information, up 8% on last year but up 25% on the number of chargeable requests, with a corresponding increase in income of 18%. 93% of requests were dealt with within 10 working days, up from 90% last year. g. Screened 13,657 planning applications - up by 8% on last year - despite no longer screening for BDBC and SCC. 16% were flagged as having a potential impact on designated sites, priority habitats and notable species - up from 14% last year. h. Evaluated the 2013 survey data and recommended 46 (39) new SINCs, 48 (56) amended SINCs and 7 (6)SINCs for deletion to the SINCs Panel. Last year’s figures given in (). i. Established Living Record as an efficient user friendly on-line data capture tool for many recording groups/local community groups with 49,936 new records entered for 2014/15. j. Provided representation on the Association of Local Environmental Records Centres (ALERC) Board of Directors as Chair (from October 2013). k. Provided training and work experience to 2 undergraduate volunteers, and GIS skills to the County Mammal Recorder in exchange for volunteering at HBIC. l. Supported two Bioblitz activities at University Campus and Queen Elizabeth Country Park.

The Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre is grateful to the HBIC Steering Group*, for support and guidance and to the many species recording groups who provide updated copies of their data: Botanical Society of the British Isles*, Butterfly Conservation*, Hampshire Amphibian & Reptile Group, Hampshire Bat Group, Hampshire Ornithological Society*, Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust*, and the Hampshire Mammal Group.

The following organisations provide funding and other in-kind support to HBIC in return for a Biodiversity Information Service; Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council, District Council, Eastleigh Borough Council, Forestry Commission, Natural England*, Environment Agency*, Fareham Borough Council, Borough Council, Hampshire County Council (Economy, Transport & Environment Department, the Countryside Service, and the County Museums Service)*, Council, Havant Borough Council, Council, New Forest National Park Authority*, City Council, Portsmouth Water, Rushmoor Borough Council, South Downs National Park Authority*, Southampton City Council, Southern Water, Borough Council, Wessex Water and Winchester City Council.

* Steering Group members, plus 3 District/Unitary Councils per year in rotation. See page 5. 3

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2. Staffing & Contact Details

Table 1 : Summary of HBIC staff roles and contact details

Role Staff Email Tel. Specialist Environmental 01962 Nicky Court [email protected] Services Manager inc. HBIC 832322 Wolfgang Ritter IT databases/GIS/Species 01962 Senior Biodiversity [email protected] data/Special Projects Data Officer 832324 SLA Lead inc. Survey Sarah Callegari 01962 Programme organisation and Ecologist [email protected] validation. SINCs Programme (part-time Mon -Thurs) 832320 Habitat Surveys & SINC Ian Ralphs 01962 evaluation - mainly West & South [email protected] Field Ecologist Hampshire 832328 Habitat Surveys & SINC Joel Miller 01962 evaluation - mainly North and [email protected] Field Ecologist East Hampshire 832326 Data requests, planning Lizzy Peat 01962 screening and collation/ [email protected] Ecologist validation of species data 832327 Becky Coneybeer Data requests, planning Ecologist – maternity [email protected]. 01962 screening, survey validation leave Jan14- Dec14 and habitat /mapping. uk 832321 (p/t Mon/Wed/Thurs) Caroline Thompson Data requests, planning Ecologist [email protected]. 01962 screening and survey validation (maternity cover for uk 832321 Becky Coneybeer) Jacob Bedford : July 2014- Sept 2014 Data management tasks 01967 Ruth Holland: Sept. 2014 - Feb 2015 (volunteer) Andy Rothwell: Feb 2015 – on-going 832327

Note: SC has increased her hours from 0.5 FTE to 0.85 FTE whilst BC has decreased her hours from 1.0FTE to 0.65 FTE – resulting in no net gain or loss.

Address: 1st Floor, Elizabeth II Court West, The Castle, Winchester, SO23 8UD General email: [email protected]

HBIC Steering Group for 2014/15

Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council* – Julia Nethercott/Phil Allen Botanical Society of the British Isles – Martin Rand Butterfly Conservation – Dr Andy Barker Environment Agency – no representative Gosport Borough Council* – Jayson Grygiel Hampshire County Council - Economy, Transport & Environment Department – Gary King Hampshire County Council Museums Service – Christine Taylor Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust – Debbie Whitfield/Sarah Jackson Natural England – Charlotte Elliot (standing in) New Forest National Park Authority – Ian Barker South Downs National Park Authority – Emily Brennan Southampton City Council* – Lindsay McCulloch Hampshire Ornithological Society – Dr John Eyre

*3 District/Unitary Councils rotate once every four years.

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3. Habitat Survey Programme – 2014/15 Season

The survey season began on the 10th April 2014, but was interrupted by the Easter Holiday. This year, 230 requests have been completed, resulting in the survey of 258 sites. The traditional field season came to a close on the 10th October. However, overwintering bird surveys for Havant, New Forest District and New Forest National Park Authority, were completed between November and March and additional desktop studies have been completed in New Forest District (4.5 days). Desktop studies have also been completed for Hart and East Hampshire, accounting for 3 and 8 survey days out of their allocation, respectively.

A summary of the survey days scheduled for each partner is presented in Table 1; these figures include time allocated for field surveys and write-up. The majority of partner allocations have been filled or exceeded. Where partners are significantly under their allocations for this year (Havant), more survey work will be planned next season to address the shortfall in scheduled days.

Table 2: Request for Surveys Allocated to each Partner

Days Days Days Days 2 Partner Requests Sites 1 1 Spent Left Total Allocated Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council 24 27 24.92 0.00 24.92 263  East Hampshire District Council 21 21 26.61 0.00 26.61 28  Eastleigh Borough Council 7 13 13.32 0.00 13.32 10  Fareham Borough Council 14 14 13.66 0.00 13.66 14  Gosport Borough Council 6 8 9.03 0.00 9.03 10  HCC - Countryside Services 15 15 19.92 2.00 21.92 15  HCC - ETE 22 22 19.45 0.00 19.45 203  Hampshire Wildlife Trust 6 9 18.39 0.00 18.39 15  Hart District Council 20 17 21.74 0.00 21.74 20  Havant Borough Council 8 8 7.80 4.00 11.80 14  New Forest District Council 12 15 18.93 0.00 18.93 144  New Forest National Park Authority 2 5 12.84 0.00 12.84 14  Portsmouth City Council 4 4 5.53 0.00 5.53 6  Rushmoor Borough Council 7 8 9.53 0.00 9.53 10  Southampton City Council 6 10 9.55 0.00 9.55 10  Test Valley Borough Council 12 14 28.34 3.00 31.34 28  Winchester City Council 18 18 28.26 0.00 28.26 28  Sub-total (survey programme) 204 228 287.82 9.00 296.82 282 Spare capacity 26 30 52.99 10.00 62.99 58 Total 230 258 340.81 19.00 359.81 340

Notes: 1. 'Days Left' and 'Days Total' are projected and may not reflect the eventual figures. 2. Arrows indicate whether an allocation has been filled (), exceeded () or not been filled(). Thresholds are set at ±10% of the total allocation. 3. Allocation to be informally reduced to account for over-allocation in 2013/14 season (BDBC down to 24 days, HCC Environment down to 18 days). 4. Allocation informally increased to account for under-allocation in 2013/14 season (NFDC increased to 16 days).

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The HBIC partners requested 52% of the survey requests this season, 3% came directly from landowners to inform site management and the remaining 45% were organised by HBIC on behalf of the partners; either to contribute to SINC monitoring, to identify sites of potential SINC quality or as part of external projects (South Downs NIA Project).

3.1 SINC Monitoring

Letters were sent to 87 landowners to request permission to survey 93 sites. The majority (61%) were woodland SINCs for which the data is old, plus a number of non-woodland SINCs (32%), SINC woodlands with no survey data (2%) and a few sites where we need to establish whether there is any interest (5%). To date we have had a positive response from 45 landowners (51%) giving permission to survey 50 sites. Six landowners (7%) have refused access to 6 sites and responses are still outstanding from 37 landowners (42%), which would give access to an additional 36 sites.

Additionally, a further 15 landowners were targeted to request permission to survey 18 SINCs as part of the South Downs NIA chalk grassland project. In total, 11 landowners (79%) gave permission to survey 11 SINCs. One landowner refused access to 1 site and responses are still outstanding from 2 landowners, which would give access to an additional 5 sites. One of the landowners targeted for access to 2 sites responded that he was not the owner of one of them.

This year, 131 SINCs were surveyed, which is more than last year (121). The positive response rate overall (55%, if SINC monitoring and South Downs NIA figures are combined) is up compared to last year and within the range of previous years (2009/10 - 40%, 2010/11 – 67%, 2011/12 – 54%, 2012/13 – 46%). Some letters were followed up with phone calls, possibly contributing to the higher positive response rate.

3.2 Purpose of Surveys Figure 1 presents data on why the surveys were requested. 29% of the survey programme was spent on annual SINC monitoring, which HBIC organises on behalf of the partners. The next largest category (19.5%) was on sites surveyed to inform management. Last year, this category only accounted for 9% of the survey programme, with requests mainly from HWT or HCC Countryside Service but this year a number of the districts have also requested surveys for this reason. Initial surveys of sites accounted for 11% of the survey programme; five sites came from a landowner and the remaining initial surveys came through partners. Monitoring of SACs/SSSIs accounts for 8% of the survey programme but is only 1 large request, covering an annual monitoring programme that has been running for 6 years. Requests for surveys of sites for local plan allocations accounted for only 8%, reflecting that far fewer of the district partners are at that particular stage of their local plans, although a number of partners requested desktop studies to inform the local plan process.

The amount of time spent on sites surveyed as part of the road verge project (6%) has also increased from last year, partly as a result of discrepancies found in the RVEI database and layer, which has necessitated survey. BAP habitat/species monitoring reflects the requests of 3 partners to update data on 6B SINCs (designated for Brent Geese) within their districts.

Hedgerow surveys accounted for 1% of the time spent and have been included within the allocations for the respective partner (BDBC and EHDC). The number of hedgerow requests is very variable between years and it can be difficult to account for them within the survey programme. Although they have been shown within the partner allocations table above, it is accepted that they can come out of the overall partner allocation and are not restricted to using survey programme allocation.

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Figure 1. Purpose of Survey Requests Special Development Impact Hedgerow Projects (e.g. control/plannin Assessment Regulations South Downs g applications 1.81% 0.76% NIA chalk 2.97% grassland)BAP SINC Habitat/species5.69% monitoring monitoring 29.34% 6.17% Road Verge Register 6.30%

LDF/Local Plan 7.75%

Monitoring of To inform SACs and management other SSSIs (HWT 8.32%Initial survey to reserves, LA, establish ESSetc.) interest 19.49% 11.27%

Figure 2 presents data on how the requests were divided by designation. This season, 56% of the survey allocation was spent surveying sites designated as SINC, with 27% spent on undesignated land and 17% on SSSIs. Last year, slightly less time was spent surveying SINCs (56%) and more time was spent on undesignated land (28%), which probably reflects the large number of sites surveyed for local plan allocations (largely undesignated) in 2013. The SSSI figure is fairly comparable between years (2014 – 17%. 2013 - 14%).

If looked at as a proportion of the number of requests, the figure for SSSI’s decreases (7%) and for undesignated sites increases (38%), which suggests that SSSI surveys are more complicated, indicating more interest on site and generally cover a much larger area than those for undesignated sites.

Figure 2. Percentage of Survey Requests (allocation of time) by Designation

SSSI 17%

Udesignate SINC d 56% 27%

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3.3 Additional surveys from spare capacity

7 additional projects were completed in 2014/15 comprising 63 days of which just over 58 days were additionally funded. These were:

 Lymington Reedbeds (HWT) - 29 days = £7250 + VAT (final year)  Chalk grassland NIA sites & wider SINCs (SDNPA) – 19.5 days = £4875 + VAT  Calshot Spit (HCC ETE) – 1 day = £250  Westgate School (HCC ETE) – 0.5 days = £125  Portsea Island Shoreline survey (HCC ETE) – 6 days = £1500  Hayling Island HLS grasslands (HCC CS) – 2 days = £500  Hedgerow N. of St. Margaret’s R’bout, Fareham (HCC Highways) – 5 hrs/travel = £148.72

Sarah Callegari, HBIC Ecologist 30th April 2015

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4. SINC Evaluation and Notification Programme

4.1 Work remaining from the approved Nov 2013 SINCs Panel List

 The notifications to landowners resulted in objections being received on 6 SINC proposals. Evidence in support of the objections was expected by the end of October. However, no further evidence was received in support of any of the objections so the proposals were approved on the SINC layer.

4.2 Work carried out for the Nov 2014 SINCs Panel List

 Final checks and paperwork for submission to the Panel was completed by Dec 2014.  In total, 48 New SINCs, 46 amendments and 7 deletions were proposed (Table 3).  The Panel met on the 5th March to finalise decisions on the SINC proposals and discuss any upon which there wasn’t Panel agreement. The Panel unanimously approved all but 2 of the proposals, which have been deferred until the outcomes of planning applications affecting the proposals are decided.  Landowners were notified by the end of March and given until the 30th April to lodge objections. To date, 4 objections have been lodged, 2 of which have been resolved. Districts will be notified of objections once the objection window has closed.  The SINCs Panel consists of Sarah Jackson (HWT), Megan Owen (HCC), and Cressida Wheelwright (NE).

Table 3: Number of Proposed new/amended/deleted SINCs evaluated from 2013 survey data and submitted to the SINCs Panel for deliberation during Jan/Feb 2015

New Amended Deleted SINCs for Partner Total SINCs SINCs SINCs Review Basingstoke & Deane BC 7 1 1 9 Eastleigh BC 1 3 4 East Hampshire DC 6 6 1 13 Fareham BC 1 2 3 Gosport BC 2 3 5

HCC-Countryside Service 4 2 6 HCC –ETE Dept. 3 1 1 5 Hart DC 3 9 12 Havant BC 0

Hampshire& IOW Wildlife Trust 4 4 8 New Forest DC 1 1 2 4 New Forest NPA 2 2 4 Portsmouth CC 1 1 Rushmoor BC 1 2 3

Southampton CC 2 2

Test Valley TVBC 2 4 6

Winchester CC 8 6 2 16 Total 48 46 7 0 101

4.3 Summary of new/amended/deleted SINCs

Seven SINCs were approved for deletion; reasons being inappropriate management ranging from use of herbicide, to over mowing for amenity or no management resulting in scrub and loss of all grassland. One was a ‘data correction’ whereby the notable species was actually recorded in a nearby land parcel and needed re-checking.

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The forty eight new SINCs comprised newly discovered areas of species rich grassland, strips of ancient woodland not on the Inventory, wet woodland, open heath within plantation, aquatic habitats, and road verges supporting species rich grassland an/or notable species.

The forty six amended SINCs comprised;  10 SINCs having notable species added  16 boundary extensions with priority habitat discovered adjacent  7 SINCs whereby the habitat had changed, usually as a result of good management  13 (28%) SINCs where the habitat had changed from good grassland to grassland with lower interest due to semi-improvement or neglect, or heath to woodland (1)  5 SINCs which had lost some habitat, usually grassland which had been improved

Several of the amended SINCs fell into two of the above categories. In total new SINCs accounted for an additional 275 ha, deleted SINCs a loss of 15 ha, and amended SINCs a net gain of 27 ha, resulting in a total gain of 287ha in SINC coverage.

Table 4: Time spent on SINC evaluation & reporting to the Hampshire SINCs Panel

Preparation of Evaluation of 2014 survey data for SINCs list for Nov Nov 2015 SINCs Panel Total time spent Partner 1 2014 SINCs Panel No. of surveys HBIC Field (hrs) (hrs) evaluated2 ecologists (hrs) 3 BDBC 31.50 24 6.00 37.50 EBC 14.00 7 1.75 15.75 EHDC 45.50 25 6.25 51.75 FBC 10.50 14 3.50 14.00 GBC 17.50 6 1.50 19.00 HCC C’side 21.00 13 3.25 24.25 HCC - ETE 17.50 24 6.00 23.50 HDC 42.00 15 3.75 45.75 HvBC 0.00 8 2.00 2.00 HWT 28.00 3 0.75 28.75 NFDC 14.00 10 2.50 16.50 NFNPA 14.00 6 1.50 12.00 PCC 3.50 4 1.00 4.50 RBC 10.50 7 1.75 12.25 SCC 7.00 6 1.50 8.50 TVBC 21.00 12 3.00 24.00 WCC 56.00 29 7.25 63.25 Total 353.50 (47.8 days) 213 53.25 (7.2 days) 406.75 (55 days)

This year, HBIC has spent in total 460 hours (62 days) maintaining the SINCs system, including time spent dealing with landowners who have queries with SINCs they own, which are logged in the data request database and allocated to Districts/Unitaries wherever possible.

4.3 SD160 Local Sites Reporting – “Improved Local Biodiversity” The National Indicator, NI197 has been replaced a new Single Dataset indicator, SD160-00 which is named as “Improved Local Biodiversity” and is defined as for NI187. Again HCC has let Defra know they would not be reporting on SD160-00 for 2013/14. 26% of local authorities did not submit their figures for this indicator, citing lack of resources as the main reason. Time spent on this Indicator has never been included within the partnership SLAs. Sarah Callegari, HBIC Ecologist, 30th April 2015

1 Time spent producing statements/maps for the SINCs Panel, updating the database, GIS editing and notifying landowners - a total of 3.5 hrs per site. Landowners will be notified and the GIS layer updated in April 2015 2 Excludes any SSSIs surveyed in 2014 3 Time spent evaluating 2014 survey data by field ecologists – undertaken in February 2015 (0.25 hr/site) 10

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5. Provision of Data 5.1 GIS Data to partners  Updates of the Notable species & Non-native Invasive species layers were sent out in August 2014 and again in December 2014.  EA requested a new copy of the Nov 2013 SINC layer due to problems they had with a previous copy when merging UK wide data. An update of the SINCs layer together with the RVEI layer was sent out to partners in October 2014.  Updates of the Biosite layer were sent to the partners in December 2014.  Updates of the Broad and Priority Habitats layers were sent out in Feb/March 2014. All updates by NE to the MAGIC single habitat inventory have had to be removed due to NE wanting to make the inventory downloadable to all under the Open Government Licence.  Merged layers for whole National Park were provided to SDNPA at the end of March 2015.

Table 5: GIS data to Partners

Protected & Non-Native UK BAP UK BAP Biodiversity Notable Invasive Broad Priority Biosites Partner Opportunity SINC Layer RVEI Layer Species Species Habitats Habitats Layer Areas Layer Layer Layer Layer Layer Basingstoke & 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 14/03/2014 12/02/2014 13/12/2010 17/12/2014 13/10/2014 13/10/2014 Deane BC East Hants DC 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 14/03/2014 12/02/2014 13/12/2010 17/12/2014 13/10/2014 13/10/2014 Eastleigh BC 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 14/03/2014 12/02/2014 13/12/2010 17/12/2014 13/10/2014 13/10/2014 Fareham BC 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 14/03/2014 12/02/2014 24/06/2014 17/12/2014 13/10/2014 13/10/2014 Gosport BC 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 14/03/2014 12/02/2014 13/12/2010 17/12/2014 13/10/2014 13/10/2014 Hart DC 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 14/03/2014 12/02/2014 13/12/2010 17/12/2014 13/10/2014 13/10/2014 Havant BC 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 14/03/2014 12/02/2014 13/12/2010 17/12/2014 13/10/2014 13/10/2014 New Forest DC 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 17/03/2014 12/02/2014 07/12/2010 17/12/2014 13/10/2014 13/10/2014 NFNPA 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 14/03/2014 12/02/2014 07/12/2010 17/12/2014 13/10/2014 13/10/2014 Portsmouth CC 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 14/03/2014 12/02/2014 07/12/2010 17/12/2014 13/10/2014 13/10/2014 Rushmoor BC 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 14/03/2014 12/02/2014 07/12/2010 17/12/2014 13/10/2014 13/10/2014 S’hampton CC 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 14/03/2014 13/02/2014 07/12/2010 17/12/2014 13/10/2014 13/10/2014 Test Valley 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 14/03/2014 12/02/2014 07/12/2010 17/12/2014 13/10/2014 13/10/2014 Winchester CC 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 14/03/2014 12/02/2014 07/12/2010 17/12/2014 13/10/2014 13/10/2014 Forestry Com 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 HCC C’side 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 26/02/2014 26/02/2014 13/12/2010 25/06/2013 14/11/2014 14/11/2014 HCC ETE 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 14/03/2014 12/02/2014 HIWWT 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 17/03/2014 17/03/2014 13/12/2010 17/12/2014 13/10/2014 13/10/2014 Natural 28/10/2014 27/10/2014 08/12/2009 28/03/2013 08/12/2009 08/12/2009 30/10/2014 28/06/2011 England Env.t Agency 28/10/2014 27/10/2014 08/12/2009 28/03/2013 08/12/2009 08/12/2009 30/10/2014 28/06/2011 Portsmouth 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 18/03/2014 12/02/2014 07/01/2014 17/12/2014 13/10/2014 13/10/2014 Water SD NPA 04/09/2014 27/03/2014 28/03/2014 27/03/2014 18/07/2013 18/07/2013 27/03/2014 18/07/2013 S’thern Water 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 17/03/2014 12/02/2014 17/12/2014 01/12/2014 01/12/2014 Thames Water 19/02/2014 16/12/2013 17/03/2014 12/02/2014 17/05/2013 17/12/2014 13/10/2014 13/10/2014 Wessex Water 17/12/2014 17/12/2014 14/03/2014 12/02/2014 17/12/2014 13/10/2014 13/10/2014

Wolfgang Ritter (30th April 2015)

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5.2 Data requests (completed to 31st March 2015)

93% of data requests were responded to within the target of 10 days. A further 2% within the statutory 20 days and the remaining few were more complex requests.

Table 6: Data requests summary

2014/15 2013/14 2012/13 2011/12 Total no. of requests 713 639 575 585 Total no. of chargeable requests 496 399 253 291 Total time logged (hrs) 794 746.7 693 795 Total time logged to chargeable requests 459 352 295 310 (hrs) Proportion of total time chargeable 58% 47% 43% 39% Total income £79,915 £67,625 £40,275 £46,575

Table 7: Data requests allocated to each partner Non Chargeable Partner Total Enquiries Total Time Chargeable Time Time BDBC 90 91.11 56.5 34.61 EA 4 5.5 5.5 EBC 33 27.21 23.88 3.33 EHDC 102 94.26 79.25 15.01 FBC 29 26.45 23 3.45 FC 5 6.5 6.5 GBC 8 7 5.25 1.75 HBG (Note 2) 5 0.78 0.78 HCC - CCBS 5 (Note 4) 15 15 HCC - ETE 41 61.05 61.05 HDC 53 46.65 40.5 6.15 HIWWT 12 22 (Note 3) 1.75 20.25 HOS 3 15.45 15.45 HvBC 36 45.53 25.25 20.28 NE 15 20.03 20.03 NFDC 27 32.78 17 15.78 NFNPA 27 35.5 17.75 17.75 PCC 19 20.75 12.5 8.25 PW 2 3.75 3.75 RBC 20 16.25 15.75 0.5 SCC 29 25.83 19.25 6.58 SDNPA 11 22 5.75 16.25 SDNPA - NIA 1 2.25 2.25 SW 3 4 1 3 TVBC 85 79.5 62.75 16.75 WCC 72 66.91 43.13 23.78 Total (Note 1) 737 794.04 450.26 343.78 12

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Note 1: The total number of enquiries may include those ‘double-counted’ where they relate to more than one partner organisation. Note 2: All requests for Bat Only searches have been re-directed to the bat group from January 2015. Re-direction time has been added and requests allocated to HBG (Hampshire bat group). Note 3: This was the time taken to send out the 2010 Wader and Brent Goose CD to two customers on behalf of HIWWT. Note 4: This includes QECP BioBlitz staff time on the day (it was agreed this would come from here)

Table 8: Data requests by type of enquirer Contact Type Total Enquiries Total Time Total Consultancy/Developer 479 444.28 £78,420.00 Landowner/Agent/Tenant 19 20.08 £675.00 General Public 35 32.76 £640.00 Other 4 4.50 £180.00 Local Voluntary Group 5 7.50 £0.00 Councillor 1 1.00 £0.00 Government Agency 18 24.28 £0.00 Highway Contractor 1 0.50 £0.00 Local Authority 35 69.25 £0.00 Consultancy (for Partner) 29 32.50 £0.00 Local Record Centre 2 7.25 £0.00 Researcher/Student/School/College 25 25.68 £0.00 National Park Authority 4 14.75 £0.00 Non-Governmental Organisation 19 46.20 £0.00 Parish/Town Council 3 2.75 £0.00 Public Utility (for Partner) 2 2.50 £0.00 Recording Group/Individual 12 24.00 £0.00 Local Community Group 20 34.25 £0.00

Lizzy Peat, Ecologist, 1st of May 2015

5.3 Production of Annual Biodiversity Monitoring Report for District AMRs

As in previous years HBIC produced an Annual Monitoring Report in Autumn 2014 covering ‘change statistics’ for Hampshire for the period 1st April 2013 to 31st March 2014 for:

 Area covered by different priority habitats.  Area covered by designated sites.  Extent of priority habitats within designated sites.  Conditions of SSSIs.  Changes in the extent and number of SINCs.

The figures are broken down by district. GIS models, an Access database and VBA scripts are used to make the extraction of the statistics quicker and easier although it still takes time because of rounding errors and checks for consistency. The detailed statistics per district are now only provided to those who request them as part of their SLA. Population trends for a suite of 50 notable species were not produced this year due to lack of feedback from some of the species groups. Wolfgang Ritter (30th April 2015)

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6. Screening Planning Applications & Road works 6.1 Planning applications: Table 9: Planning applications screened for each partner Hours spent District/Partner Checked Flagged pro rata East Hampshire DC 1362 251 (18%) 66 East Hampshire DC - SDNP 803 131 (16%) 34 Eastleigh BC 810 117 (14%) 31 Fareham BC 1139 148 (13%) 39 Gosport BC 400 80 (20%) 21 Hampshire CC 478 129 (27%) 34 Havant BC 1230 134 (11%) 35 New Forest DC 1564 202 (13%) 53 New Forest NP 1022 266 (26%) 70 Test Valley BC 2219 340 (15%) 89 Winchester CC 2165 306 (14%) 80 Winchester CC - SDNP 465 85 (18%) 22 Total 13657 2189 (16%) 572 Total time last year 12686 1774 (14%) 500

Notes: 1. HBIC currently allow a week’s delay for publication. It is worth noting that if applications are added after HBIC have screened the weekly list then they will not be checked. 2. The hours given are pro-rata based on approximately 11 hours per week, 580 per year, an increase of 1 hour/week on 2013/14. 3. “Hours Spent Pro Rata” is based on % number of applications flagged as potentially likely to impact on designated sites/notable species/priority habitats, rather than total number of applications, as this is where most time is spent.

6.2 Screening of road works:

The procedure  A weekly spreadsheet is sent to the HBIC Inbox from Highways containing all works to roads which may affect a Road Verge of Ecological Importance (RVEI). This list is filtered such that it pulls out all ‘new’ and ‘updated’ works per week. Each of these works is then checked on HBIC’s systems against the RVEI layer.  Any works which are found likely to impact on a RVEI are noted and comments submitted directly to the Highways officer.  Approximately 1.4 hours per week, 73 hours per year is spent screening road verges, with the time attributed to HCC-ETE

Table 10: Number of Road works screened against the RVEI Layer

Total screened so far this year Time spent (hrs) New Updated Flagged 625 50 (8%) 190 (28.15%) 71.4

Lizzy Peat, Ecologist 1st May 2015

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7. Data Holdings (to 30th April 2015)

Table 11: Total Species data holdings by database Total no. of Total no. of An increase Total no. of records to records to of… Database species April 2015 March 2014 MapMate’s (see below) 12,573 4,360,067 4,108,998 From species recording groups 251,069 Recorder (mainly vascular plants from HBIC habitat surveys, 5,858 929,898 755,134 174,764 hymenoptera, bryophytes and now bird records) Total number of records 5,289,965 4,864,132 425,833

Approximately 22% of all species records held in MapMate are protected and/or notable species. This figure has stayed consistent over the past few years.

Table 12: MapMate Holdings only Total no of Net increase Total no of notable Taxonomic Group records this year or protected records Amoebozoa 2 0 0 Amphibians & Reptiles 20,626 1,047 15,995 Birds 830,175 01 484,691 Fish 2,226 2 856 Fungi 849 0 5 Higher plants - Clubmosses & Quillworts 879 41 871 Higher plants - Conifers 8,127 840 758 Higher plants - Ferns 21,063 1,948 2,312 Higher plants - Flowering Plants 797,178 71,343 74,148 Higher plants - Horsetails 3,433 199 343 Invertebrates - Annelida 37 1 3 Invertebrates - Araneae 2,673 15 8 Invertebrates - Blattaria 71 0 0 Invertebrates - Bryozoa 1 0 0 Invertebrates - Chilopoda 128 0 0 Invertebrates - Cnidaria 1 0 0 Invertebrates - Coleoptera 32,681 59 8,391 Invertebrates - Collembola 4 4 0 Invertebrates - Crustacea 793 48 316 Invertebrates - Dermaptera 469 2 0 Invertebrates - Diplopoda 119 2 2 Invertebrates - Diptera 35,991 94 2,679 Invertebrates - Echinodermata 1 0 0 Invertebrates - Ephemeroptera 140 2 1 Invertebrates - Hemiptera 14,585 43 412

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Total no of Net increase Total no of notable Taxonomic Group records this year or protected records -26,548 Invertebrates - Hymenoptera 3,972 (Note3) 425 Invertebrates - Lepidoptera 2,527,633 192,259 334,396 Invertebrates - Mecoptera 134 0 0 Invertebrates - Megaloptera 40 0 0 Invertebrates - Mollusca 2,398 21 92 Invertebrates - Neuroptera 179 2 0 Invertebrates - Odonata 5,685 -3 (Note 1) 861 Invertebrates - Orthoptera 3,292 20 49 Invertebrates - Plecoptera 34 0 1 Invertebrates - Porifera 1 0 0 Invertebrates - Psocoptera 3 0 0 Invertebrates - Raphidioptera 17 0 0 Invertebrates - Trichoptera 284 0 0 Lichens 885 0 20 Lower plants - Algae 49 0 0 Lower plants - Liverworts, Hornworts & Mosses 4,131 0 61 Lower plants - Stoneworts 21 4 4 Mammals - Marine 748 46 748 Mammals - Terrestrial (bats) 14,794 6,540 (Note 2) 16,327 Mammals - Terrestrial (except bats) 23,515 3,038 10,525 4,360,067 251,069 955,300

MapMate (5pw) came to its capacity limit so that we had to move all Lepidoptera data from MapMate (5pw) to another MapMate (6dn) and the BWARS Dataset to Recorder (Hymenoptera). The number of notable and protected records changed not only because of new records but also because of new species designations.

Notes:

Note 1: The small decrease in Odonata is due to the removal of a few duplicate records. Note 2: The high number of bat records is due to Nik Knight’s efforts in dealing with the HBG backlog – up 3000 from end of March 2014. They also secured a large number of bat records from ECOSA, a consultancy who have started to use MapMate for recording and exchange. Note 3: The loss of the large number of hymenoptera records from MapMate is expected as these records have been moved to the Recorder database.

Table 13 Selected Recorder holdings Taxonomic Group/Survey Total no of records Hymenoptera (Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording society) 26,782 Mosses, Liverworts, Hornworts : (British Bryological society dataset) 20,808 Birds (Hampshire Ornithological Society) 91,674

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any possible duplicates, and returned to us as part of their annual download as non-editable copies.

The following additional datasets were imported into Recorder:  Fungi - ~2,000 records catalogued by the Hampshire Museums Service  Birds- ~91.000 records from the Hampshire Ornithological Society (from this year’s export)

There are plans to collate the following additional data sets in future, subject to workloads:

 Birds - ~20,000 records received from HIWWT as a result of the Brent Goose and Wader Strategy – They will stay in a separate GIS alert layer and not be imported into MapMate or Recorder for the time being.  Further records catalogued by the Hampshire Cultural Trust (previously Hampshire Museums Service)  Odonata - from the British Dragonfly Society subject to a new County Recorder being appointed and/or agreeing on data exchange.  Coleoptera - Derek Lott Coleoptera Dataset, from the NBN Gateway  British Arachnological Society/Spider Recording Scheme's Provisional Atlas of British Spiders dataset This is the dataset used in the Spider Recording Scheme's publication Provisional Atlas of British Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae), Volumes 1 & 2 - Peter R. Harvey, David R.Nellist & Mark G. Telfer' From the NBN Gateway

Lizzy Peat/Wolfgang Ritter (30th April 2015)

8. Additional Community Recording

8.1 BioBlitz Reports

Southampton City Council and Southampton University ran a joint BioBlitz at Southampton University Highfield Campus and surrounding area on the 13th and 14th of June 2014. 2 HBIC staff attended and provided MapMate data entry and verification support. 355 species were recorded with 521 new records made in total. Southampton city council were charged for 50% of this time, which was over and above their SLA allocation.

The Rangers at Hampshire County Council’s Queen Elizabeth Country Park also ran a BioBlitz on 9th and 10th of August 2014, this year they included nearby Buriton Chalk Pits LNR. There were 514 species recorded and 847 new records made in total. HBIC staff attended for 12 hours in total, providing MapMate data entry and verification support. This time came from the HCC allocation, and has been logged as a data request.

HBIC spent equal time (in kind) to the two BioBlitz’s, doing all the MapMate setup, producing recording maps, and then entering any extra species identified after the day itself. HBIC also carried out all the data manipulation of all records, and provided them in one go to the County Recorders for a final check before being added to their databases and copies returned to HBIC. HBIC has also directly added 178 records to the system which were not currently covered by other species groups, or there is not an active data exchange agreement in place. These records will come through to all partners in the usual way.

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Table 14: Living Record Verification (showing records entered between 01/04/2013 and 31/03/2015 for Hampshire) Record Hampshire New Cleaner Query Reject Accept Locked Total Pass Fail Subject

Mammals (excluding bats) 777 1 1 6 769

Bats 121 1 1 4 115

Badger Setts 11 5 6

Birds 3,286 343 7 1,282 1,654

Reptiles 221 86 10 1 124

Amphibians 197 38 8 151

Freshwater Fish 2 2

Insects: Bees, Wasps & Ants 120 21 99

Insects: Moths 4,959 408 86 85 1,394 2,986

Insects: Butterflies 4,366 38 14 31 863 3,420

Insects: Flies (Diptera) 122 79 1 42

Insects: Beetles 81 81

Insects: Orthoptera - Grasshoppers

197 187 10

etc.

Insects: Bugs 22 22

Insects: Dragonflies 1,382 1,241 47 94

Spiders, Harvestmen &

131 131

Pseudoscorpions Isopods: Woodlice & Waterlice

30 30

(+Landhopper)

Molluscs: non-marine 121 118 3

Vascular plants 33,066 11 8 24 33,023

Bryophytes 102 102

Fungi 310 138 2 170

Lichens 76 76

Survey: Swifts 1 1

Survey: Invasive Plants 1 1

Survey: Rookeries 3 3

Bats by life stage (Glos) 56 56

Survey: Riverfly Monitoring 11 11

Dragons (for training) 42 42

FHT Water Quality Survey - pilot 66 10 5 51

Survey: Source to Sea invasive plant

56 56

survey

49,936 3,322 139 126 3,901 42,448 Totals

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The table above shows the number of records entered since the 1st of April 2014 and their current status in the system.  “New” records have been entered by users but the verifiers have not looked at them.  “Accepted records” have been checked for errors and accepted but not yet downloaded.  “Locked records” are those which have been verified and downloaded by the County recorders, and passed through to HBIC in the usual way.  The number of queried and rejected records can also be seen, feedback is provided by email within the system.

The following Boundaries have been set up with the help of HBIC to record to (other boundaries are also available);  HIWWT reserve boundaries  HCC Countryside Service sites  Historic Boundary of Selborne (for the Gilbert White Study Group)  Mill Field LNR (for the Mill Conservation Group in Old Basing) and various other local green spaces and SINCs around Basingstoke for Natural Basingstoke

HBIC Living record training has been run for the following groups:  Hampshire County Council Rangers  Natural Basingstoke  South Downs National Park Rangers  Horndean Biodiversity Group (with funding from the HBIC Small grants scheme)  Butterfly Conservation officers – to learn how to carry out butterfly verification

A new download format has been developed for all mammals, amphibians and reptiles to allow easy data entry into MapMate, and bats have been split away from the rest of the mammals in order to reflect the local picture in Hampshire, and new fields created to capture more information. The County Bat Recorder Nik Knight has been working with the developer on this.

HBIC have the admin rights to allocate users as County Recorders, and are in the process of approaching and training people to carry out this role in order to compliment the existing network. Lizzy Peat, Ecologist 1st May 2015

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9 Updating the GIS Habitat Layer/dataset Since returning from maternity leave BC has made a start on updating the habitat layer with data from the 2013 site surveys. Once these have been updated BC will then commence updating the 2014 surveys, and following this clear the backlog of some 20 sites that date back to 2003. It is estimated that the work to clear the 2013 and other outstanding surveys will take 19 days to complete at the normal rate of one day a week over the next 4 months. The 2014 survey reports will be updated by the end of March 2016.

Table 15: Survey updates outstanding on the GIS Habitat layer at 31st March 2015 Year of Total Surveys Outstanding work as survey for Year1 at 31st March 2015 Outstanding work

2003 418 20 (5%)  Total number of 2004 379 1 (0%) surveys to update 2005 403 0 (0%) 274 2006 326 0 (0%)  Number of surveys updated/day = 2007 332 0 (0%) approx. 15 2008 363 0 (0%)  Number of days 2009 266 0 (0%) required to 2010 371 0 (0%) complete backlog = approx. 19 2 0 (0%) 2011 457 2012 300 0 (0%) 2013 316 253 (80%) Total sites 3931 274 (7%)

As mentioned previously it was discovered that an EA coastal habitat data import had incorrectly overwritten many previous updates carried out from 2005-2008 HBIC surveys. This has now been rectified with approximately 137 extra 2003-2008 surveys having been re- digitised. A New Forest LIFE data import had also overwritten some previous habitat survey updates but this turned out to be a negligible figure of 4 surveys between 2004 and 2006.

Further work is also required to update the GIS Habitat Layer as a result of the following:  Incorporation of the PTES Traditional Orchards national inventory data  Incorporation of the RSPB/EA Reedbeds regional inventory data

Rebecca Coneybeer, HBIC Ecologist, 29th April 2015

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10 IT Development & Improvements

The on-going IT development plan for HBIC is to enable greater integration of, and between, the HBIC databases and the GIS layers it maintains. This will ensure that duplication of effort is kept to a minimum and will also enable greater flexibility when interrogating and extracting data. A longer term aim is to develop greater web access and ‘self-serve’ by data users, subject to controls to protect the interests of the data suppliers and the funding to maintain the service

IT Development planned and progressed during 2014/15

The planned and on-going improvements to the efficiency and capability of HBIC’s various databases and GIS layers have included:

 Further enhancements to the HLU GIS tool to make it more user-friendly and to improve performance. This work is now being taken forward by the SE LRCs Group. Andy Foy worked successfully on a two batches. They were tested and are now used. A previous problem with a lack of WMS (Web Map Services) on our server was solved by IT Services.

 Making the response to data enquiries more automated and therefore more rapid. Work on the data request database and in the GIS part has resulted in updates, which improve the speed of standard data requests. There are further improvements planned.

 Enhancement of the SINC database to enable the relationship between SINCs and biosites to be maintained, thereby enabling the complete survey history of all SINCs to be retrieved automatically - ongoing (as time allows).

 HCC has now updated to the corporate ArcGIS 10.2.1. The bespoke HBIC GIS tools, which were developed in VBA, were copied over into the new version and still function. However, this is only a temporary solution, as VBA will not be supported for long by ArcGIS. The HBIC tools have to be re-written in another language fairly soon, preferably in VB.NET. As a first step to do that we have now access to a VDI (virtual; desktop).

 An update of Recorder 6 and of the dictionary was successfully installed in July/August 2014 and February/March 2015.

 Provide web-based access to all statutory and non-statutory designated sites in Hampshire via the HBIC/HCC website – in progress but slow - dependant on HCC IT Services. We are investigating the potential for a SE LRCs website to display LRC data to partners and consultants– password protected, currently being developed by SxBRC.

 Improving the efficiency of extracting GIS data into a Word template via an intermediate database for producing the annual biodiversity monitoring statistics.

Wolfgang Ritter, Senior Biodiversity Data Officer, 30th April 2015

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11. Financial Statements

11.1 Main Account (A9850) Table 16: Projected and actual expenditure and income

Holding account opening balance of 2014/5 Projection 2014-15 Actual £211,723.93 (adjusted)

Core Expenditure Total staff salaries & 20% on-costs (6.5 staff)1 £244,000 £230,9682 Travel/training/volunteer expenses £6,000 £6,8623 Equipment £500 £1,2924 Promotional activities – Forum & meetings £500 £395 Income to Local Recording Fund – see table 18 £13,829 £13,829 Total core expenditure £264,829 c£253,346 Core Income From Partnership SLAs £120,500 £120,8545 Income from provision of data £60K £79,411 Salaries/on-costs ‘recharged’ for manager post £97,1456 £59,998 Income from ‘spare capacity’ surveys £12,500 £15,435 Total core income £290,145 £275,698 Core Balance £25K +£22,352 Additional expenditure  Contribution to Goosewatch (Chichester Harbour Conservancy) £400  Contribution to Habitat Data Capture tool (SE LRCs Project) £609 Total additional expenditure £1,009 Additional income  Late payment – NIA surveys 2013- 21 days £6,350  Southampton Bioblitz £360  Income from lunches - Recorders Forum7 £78 Total additional Income £6,788 Total balance for 2014/15 c£28,131 Carried forward8 - £239,465.73 in ledger c£239,854

Key summary – HBIC would still have broken even with WR salary assigned to HBIC account for first time, and if CT (maternity cover) salary had been assigned to account. However, no departmental or corporate overheads have been accounted for.

1 No departmental or corporate overheads are included, as per current Business Plan 2 Maternity cover (CT) - has not been assigned to the holding account – est. at £23,360 (42/52 weeks in 2014/15) but includes BC maternity pay and overlap between SC and BC, and WR salary/on-costs (for the first time) 3 Includes ALERC membership fees and advanced GIS training for BC and LP 4 Includes laptop/upgrades, and MapMate licence 5 Payments for Q3 & Q4 for managing SDNPA (West Sussex) SLA (c£340) will appear in 2015/16 statement 6 Previously re-charged for both senior biodiversity data post and manager post 7 Lunches for Recorders Forum not yet paid out (estimated at £168.00) 8 Includes c/f - £20,000 ring fenced for further habitat suitability mapping, £3000 remaining from Ancient Woodland Inventory Review, plus contingency fund of 6 months running costs of £125,000 22

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11.2 Income received from SLAs and Data Supply Agreements *Fees remain the same as for 2013//14 (as final year of 3 yr SLA) but with an additional 1% increase to reflect the pay award for 2012/13. A small amount of additional income is due from managing the SDNPA (West Sussex) SLA for ecology & archaeology advice services Table 17: Income from Partners Partner Survey days Hours Fee1 Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council 26 130 East Hampshire District Council 28 200 Eastleigh Borough Council 10 100 Fareham Borough Council 14 100 Gosport Borough Council 10 60 Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust 15 100 Hampshire County Council - ETE Dept. 20 350 Hampshire County Council - CCBS Dept. 2 15 100 Hart District Council 20 100 Havant Borough Council 14 100 New Forest District Council 14 100 New Forest National Park Authority 14 100 Portsmouth City Council 6 40 Rushmoor Borough Council 10 50 South Downs National Park Authority3 - 40 Southampton City Council 10 60 Test Valley Borough Council 28 200 Winchester City Council 28 200 Natural England - 35 Environment Agency - 37.5 Forestry Commission (New Forest) - 10 Southern Water - 10 Wessex Water - 10 Thames Water – in negotiation – SINCs only - 10 Portsmouth Water - 10 SDNPA (West Sussex SLA) – managing SLA 12

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11.3 Local Recorders Fund (A985H

Total income from data enquiries for 2013/14 = £69,145. 20% = £13,829 transferred to A985H with 14% divided amongst the species recording groups with data exchange agreements, and remainder available for projects to increase local recording capacity and available data.

Table 18: Local Recorders Fund expenditure and income

Income/Expenditure £ Income carried forward from 2013/14 £12,647.451 Income for 2013/14  20% of Income from data requests (2013/14) £13,829.00  Re-charge of Living Record support cost from HCC [£250.00] C’Side2 Total Income £26,476.45 Expenditure for 2013/14 £  Species groups Data Exchange Agreement s £9,680.20  Living Record support costs for HBIC £1,000.00  Living Record– HCC Rangers set up/training/support3 £1,700.00  Living Record – set up costs for Bat Group £310.00  New Forest Woodcock Study Group - torches £480.00  HWT - GCN survey and mammal cameras £915.00  Brook Meadow Conservation Group – MapMate/Field £300.00 Equipment Total expenditure £14,385.30 Balance in account £12,091.25

Nicky Court, HBIC Centre Manager 6th May 2015

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Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre Annual Recorders Forum 2015 Saturday 7th March 2015: 9.30am – 4.00pm

Littleton Millennium Hall [SU457 323]

The forum is free of charge and aims to give an overview of the variety of recording schemes and projects that take place in Hampshire. It is designed to encourage recorders and local recording groups to share their experiences and ideas. The programme for this year is focussing on under recorded species groups.

Programme 09:30 10:00 Registration & Coffee 10:00 10:10 Welcome & Introduction : Nicky Court, HBIC Manager Finding and Recording 'alien' Stick Insects and Other Orthopteroid 10:10 10:40 insects in Hampshire: Paul Brock, Natural History Museum 10:40 11:00 Living Record - Adrian Bicker

11:00 11:15 Refreshments

Fairy Shrimp in the New Forest : Dr Robert Aquilina, Aquilina 11:15 11:45 Environmental 11:45 12:05 The Peregrine Project: Keith Betton, Bird County Recorder 12:05 12:25 Your Records in Planning Screening Work : Lizzy Peat, HBIC 12:25 12.30 Discussion

12.30 14.00 Lunch & displays

14:00 14:20 A series of 5 minute project updates  Nicky Court, Naomi Ewald: PondNet  Michael Harrison: Sherborne St John Neighbourhood Plan

 Martin Noble: Pine Martins  Ian Barker: Smooth Snake Survey

Recording molluscs : Dr June Chatfield and Graham Long, 14.20 14.40 Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland 14.40 15.05 Recording Arable plants : Dr Phil Wilson, The Species Recovery Trust

15.05 15.20 Refreshments

15.20 15.45 The Winter Diet of Natterer’s bat: Dr Paul Hope, University of Bristol 15.45 16.00 Summing up and close

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Organisations attending the HBIC Annual Recorders Forum

Aquilina Environmental Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Basingstoke Canal Authority Bristol University Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland British Bryological Society and John Norton Ecology Butterfly Conservation Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland County Mammal Recorder Christchurch and East Dorset Councils Eastleigh Borough Council Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd Freshwater Habitats Trust Froyle Nature Conservation Group New Forest Ecological Consultants Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust Hampshire Amphibian & Reptile Group Hampshire Bat Group Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre Hampshire Ecological Services Hampshire Flora Group Hampshire Fungus Recording Group Hampshire Mammal Group Hampshire Ornithological Society Hatch Warren Nature Group Horndean Biodiversity Group Living Record Natural England Natural History Museum New Forest Ecological Consultants New Forest Land Advice Service – Community Plans New Forest National Park Authority New Forest Study Group Portsdown Hill Countryside Services Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Sherborne St John Neighbourhood Plan Southampton City Council Southampton Natural History Society Test Valley Borough Council/ Hampshire Dormouse Group The Species Recovery Trust Tree Warden Hall Lands Copse Vesper Conservation and Ecology Wildlife Sound Recordist

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