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Site: Fairways TVERC Ref: TVERC/20/567 Prepared for: Windrush Ecology On: 2020-11-18 By: Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre [email protected] www.tverc.org

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

The following are included in this report:

General Information: • Terms & Conditions

• Further information

PROTECTED & NOTABLE SPECIES INFORMATION: • Summary table of legally protected and notable species records within 1km search area

• Summary table of invasive and non-native species records within 1km search area

• Species status key

• Data origin key

DESIGNATED WILDLIFE SITES INFORMATION: • A map of designated wildlife sites within 1km search area

• Descriptions/citations for designated wildlife sites

• Designated wildlife sites guidance

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

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• TVERC will be clearly acknowledged when data is used in reports or other documents. This should state “Data provided by Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre” and should be included with any lists of species or maps of sites or habitats.

• The data in the report can only be used for the project for which it was requested. It cannot be passed on to third parties without permission of TVERC (this excludes reports presented to clients and Local Authorities).

• While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the data, TVERC bears no legal responsibility for the accuracy or comprehensiveness of the data provided and accepts no liability for indirect, consequential or incidental damages or losses arising from use of the data.

• The absence of species or habitat information for any area or location does not necessarily imply such species or habitats are absent; they may simply be unrecorded.

• Information supplied in a GIS data format will be subject to a data licence with additional terms and conditions.

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• The copyright for some of the species data will be held by a recording group or individual recorder. Where this is the case, and the group or individual providing the data is known, the data origin will be given in the species table.

• The data should be considered valid for a maximum 12 months from the date on the cover of this report. If the data is to be used after that time an update should be requested.

• The data must not be added to any permanent database system.

Maps • To reproduce the Ordnance Survey mapping you must hold a relevant licence for the use of Ordnance Survey mapping or it can be copied at a printers or copyshop that holds a licence to carry out search work (see the Ordnance Survey website). Billing • For billing related terms please visit http://www.tverc.org/cms/content/data-search- terms-and-conditions Further Information • For information on data coverage, grid references and use of the NBN Atlas please visit http://www.tverc.org/cms/sites/tverc/files/Data_coverage_statement.pdf

• For imformation on the origin of individual species records please visit http://www.tverc.org/cms/sites/tverc/files/DataOrignTable-Mar2019.pdf

• For information on protected species designations please visit http://www.tverc.org/cms/sites/tverc/files/Species%20Status%20Guidance_0.pdf

• For information on the various statutory and non-statutory site designations please visit http://www.tverc.org/cms/sites/tverc/files/Site%20Guidance.pdf PROTECTED AND NOTABLE SPECIES RECORDS

Common European UK Other No of Earliest Latest Taxon Group Name Latin Name Directives Legislation NERC s41 Designations records Record Record Amphibians Common Frog Rana temporaria BRAG HabDir-A5 WACA-Sch5-s9.5a NA 1 28/05/2009 21/08/2009 Great Crested Triturus cristatus BRAG HabDir-A2np, HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 1 13/06/2002 27/05/2014 Newt HabDir-A4 s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a Great Crested Triturus cristatus MOP HabDir-A2np, HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 1 13/06/2002 27/05/2014 Newt HabDir-A4 s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a Great Crested Triturus cristatus NE HabDir-A2np, HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 6 13/06/2002 27/05/2014 Newt HabDir-A4 s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a Great Crested Triturus cristatus WBC HabDir-A2np, HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 1 13/06/2002 27/05/2014 Newt HabDir-A4 s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a Smooth Newt Lissotriton BRAG NA WACA-Sch5-s9.5a NA 5 13/06/2002 01/01/2005 vulgaris Birds Barn Owl Tyto alba MOP NA WACA-Sch1-p1 NA 1 01/04/2013 31/05/2013 Bullfinch Pyrrhula BOC NA NA NERC-S41 3 28/03/2004 23/07/2014 pyrrhula Common Loxia curvirostra BOC NA WACA-Sch1-p1 NA 3 01/03/2003 10/03/2014 Crossbill Fieldfare Turdus pilaris BOC NA WACA-Sch1-p1 NA 1 10/02/2005 10/02/2005

Hobby Falco subbuteo BOC NA WACA-Sch1-p1 NA 3 21/04/2013 13/09/2015

Kestrel Falco WBC NA NA NA 1 01/01/2006 31/12/2006 tinnunculus Nightjar Caprimulgus MOP BirdsDir-A1 NA NERC-S41 1 04/05/2013 04/05/2013 europaeus Red Kite Milvus milvus BOC BirdsDir-A1 WACA-Sch1-p1 NA 2 30/03/2014 22/06/2014

Redwing Turdus iliacus BOC NA WACA-Sch1-p1 NA 3 28/11/2004 19/02/2005

Shoveler Anas clypeata BOC NA NA NA 1 18/10/2005 18/10/2005

Skylark Alauda arvensis BOC NA NA NERC-S41 1 17/06/2003 22/06/2014 Common European UK Other No of Earliest Latest Taxon Group Name Latin Name Directives Legislation NERC s41 Designations records Record Record Skylark Alauda arvensis LN NA NA NERC-S41 1 17/06/2003 22/06/2014

Song Thrush Turdus BBOWT NA NA NERC-S41 2 10/06/2000 22/01/2001 philomelos Starling Sturnus vulgaris BOC NA NA NERC-S41 1 10/02/2005 10/02/2005

Stock Dove Columba oenas WBC NA NA NA 4 01/01/2007 31/12/2007

Swift Apus apus RSPB NA NA NA 1 01/01/2007 31/12/2007

Tawny Owl Strix aluco BOC NA NA NA 2 27/05/2013 21/04/2014

Teal Anas crecca BOC NA NA NA 1 18/10/2005 18/10/2005

Willow Phylloscopus BOC NA NA NA 3 16/06/2013 23/05/2016 Warbler trochilus Woodcock Scolopax BOC NA NA NA 3 03/03/2013 28/01/2016 rusticola Higher Plants - Bluebell Hyacinthoides LN NA WACA-Sch8 NA 1 17/06/2003 17/06/2003 Flowering Plants non-scripta Invertebrates - A Beetle Rhinocyllus WBBRS NA NA NA 1 06/06/2014 06/06/2014 Beetles conicus Stag Beetle Lucanus cervus PTES HabDir-A2np WACA-Sch5-s9.5a NERC-S41 15 01/01/2002 23/06/2018

Invertebrates - Small Heath Coenonympha BC NA NA NERC-S41 1 25/08/1991 25/08/1991 Butterflies pamphilus White-letter Satyrium w- BC NA WACA-Sch5-s9.5a NERC-S41 1 21/07/1992 21/07/1992 Hairstreak album Lower Plants - Blunt-leaved Sphagnum BBS HabDir-A5 NA NA 1 08/11/1984 08/11/1984 Mosses Bog-moss palustre Bog Moss Sphagnum WBC HabDir-A5 NA NA 1 NA NA

Cow-horn Bog- Sphagnum BBS HabDir-A5 NA NA 1 08/11/1984 08/11/1984 moss denticulatum Mammals - Bats Chiroptera BSBBG HabDir-A2np, HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 1 01/09/2005 27/04/2016 Terrestrial (bats) HabDir-A4 s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Bats Chiroptera PTES HabDir-A2np, HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 1 01/09/2005 27/04/2016 HabDir-A4 s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Common European UK Other No of Earliest Latest Taxon Group Name Latin Name Directives Legislation NERC s41 Designations records Record Record Bats Chiroptera WBC HabDir-A2np, HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 1 01/09/2005 27/04/2016 HabDir-A4 s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Brown Long- Plecotus auritus BSBBG HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 5 01/02/2012 20/08/2018 eared Bat s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Brown Long- Plecotus auritus EC HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 3 01/02/2012 20/08/2018 eared Bat s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Brown Long- Plecotus auritus MOP HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 1 01/02/2012 20/08/2018 eared Bat s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Brown Long- Plecotus auritus WBC HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 4 01/02/2012 20/08/2018 eared Bat s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Common Pipistrellus BSBBG HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NA 9 11/06/2008 12/09/2018 Pipistrelle pipistrellus s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Common Pipistrellus EC HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NA 11 11/06/2008 12/09/2018 Pipistrelle pipistrellus s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Common Pipistrellus MOP HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NA 1 11/06/2008 12/09/2018 Pipistrelle pipistrellus s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Common Pipistrellus WBC HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NA 1 11/06/2008 12/09/2018 Pipistrelle pipistrellus s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Long-eared Bat Plecotus BSBBG HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 3 01/01/2015 05/11/2018 species s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Long-eared Bat Plecotus EC HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 11 01/01/2015 05/11/2018 species s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Long-eared Bat Plecotus WBC HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 3 01/01/2015 05/11/2018 species s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Noctule Bat Nyctalus noctula BSBBG HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 3 13/05/2015 26/07/2018 s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Noctule Bat Nyctalus noctula EC HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 4 13/05/2015 26/07/2018 s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Pipistrelle Bat Pipistrellus BSBBG HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 3 01/07/2005 16/07/2018 species s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Pipistrelle Bat Pipistrellus EC HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 3 01/07/2005 16/07/2018 species s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Pipistrelle Bat Pipistrellus NE HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 1 01/07/2005 16/07/2018 species s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Common European UK Other No of Earliest Latest Taxon Group Name Latin Name Directives Legislation NERC s41 Designations records Record Record Pipistrelle Bat Pipistrellus WBC HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 2 01/07/2005 16/07/2018 species s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Serotine Eptesicus EC HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NA 1 09/05/2018 09/05/2018 serotinus s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Soprano Pipistrellus BSBBG HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 5 13/05/2015 12/09/2018 Pipistrelle pygmaeus s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Soprano Pipistrellus EC HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 9 13/05/2015 12/09/2018 Pipistrelle pygmaeus s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Soprano Pipistrellus WBC HabDir-A4 HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 1 13/05/2015 12/09/2018 Pipistrelle pygmaeus s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b Unidentified Myotis EC HabDir-A2np, HabReg-Sch2, WACA-Sch5- NERC-S41 3 09/05/2018 12/09/2018 Bat HabDir-A4 s9.4b/s9.4c/s9.5a/s9.5b

West Erinaceus BBOWT NA NA NERC-S41 1 01/01/2010 06/06/2019 European europaeus Hedgehog West Erinaceus PTES NA NA NERC-S41 6 01/01/2010 06/06/2019 European europaeus Hedgehog Reptiles Grass Snake Natrix helvetica BRAG NA WACA-Sch5-s9.1k/s9.5a NERC-S41 1 28/05/2009 28/05/2009 Slow-worm Anguis fragilis BBOWT NA WACA-Sch5-s9.1k/s9.5a NERC-S41 1 01/01/2010 01/01/2010 INVASIVE SPECIES RECORDS

Taxon Group Common Name Latin Name Status No of records Earliest Record Latest Record Higher Plants - Flowering Plants A Flowering Plant Rhododendron ponticum INNS-Other-2015 4 14/06/1984 01/01/1993 Indian Balsam Impatiens glandulifera INNS-Priority-2015 1 14/06/1984 14/06/1984

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Berkshire Local Wildlife Site Biodiversity Opportunity Area

Map produced by Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre in 2020 (c) Crown Copyright. All rights reserved Oxfordshire County Council Licence No 100023343 (2020) FOR REFERENCE PURPOSES ONLY, NO FURTHER COPIES MAY BE MADE Berkshire Local Wildlife Site Description

GORRICK PLA NTA TION

Site Code: SU86C05 Grid Reference: SU819658 Area (ha): 64.77 Local Authority: Wokingham Last Survey Date(s): June 2004 Designation Date: Original LWS designation

Site Description This site is largely conifer plantation with some wet alder woodland. The site has remnants of heathland and bog habitat. Grass snake, woodlark, woodcock and nightjar have been recorded here. Plants recorded here include purple moor-grass, cross-leaved heath, bell heather and round leaved sundew.

Produced by TVERC 24/04/2013 Berkshire Local Wildlife Site Description

LAND TO THE EAST AND WEST OF SANDHURST ROAD

Site Code: SU86C08

Grid Reference: SU813655 Area (ha): 39.35

Local Authority: Wokingham Last Survey Date(s): 2002

Designation Date:

Site Description

This site is a diverse mixture of woodland, wetland, heathland and grassland habitats as well as a lake known as Queen’s Mere. There are areas of wet woodland with alder, birch and willow, which include more open areas with swamp habitat including areas dominated by bulrush (reedmace). Some of the wet woodland is degraded mire habitat that has been invaded by birch, willow and some alder. There are drier woodland areas with pine and birch and more semi-natural stands of acidic oak and birch woodland. Amongst the woodland there small areas of heathland and acid grassland, a degraded valley mire and open mixtures of grassland, mire and swamp including an area of water horsetail swamp. There is also an area of remnant rush pasture.

Plants recorded here include bog pimpernel, white sedge, bogbean, marsh cinquefoil and royal fern. Five species of Sphagnum moss have been recorded at the site. Heathland species include heather, cross-leaved heath, pill sedge and tormentil. There is a stand of common spotted orchid in the wet woodland along with marsh helleborine. Grass snake and southern wood ant have been found in the woodland.

SECTION 41 HABITAT(S) OF PRINCIPAL IMPORTANCE: wet woodland, lowland mixed deciduous woodland, lowland heathland, fen (including remnant mire), remanat purple moor grass and rush pasture.

Produced by TVERC 24/04/2013 Berkshire Local Wildlife Site Citation

THE MOORS (INCLUDING SAND MARTINS GOLF COURSE EDGE)

Site Code: SU76Y05

Grid Reference: SU79656625 Area (ha): 5.98

Local Authority: Wokingham Last Survey Date(s): 08/1993

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Site Description

An area of wet woodland, marsh and a marshy meadow managed by Wokingham District Council. The marsh is dominated by rushes and sedges, as well as areas of purple moor grass, and supports a variety of wetland species including common marsh bedstraw, ragged robin, common spotted orchid, lesser spearwort and yellow loosestrife. The presence of sheep’s sorrel and tormentil indicates the grassland is quite acidic. Alder buckthorn is present in the wood. The site also includes part of the adjacent golf course where there is a long established sand martin colony.

Produced by TVERC 22/10/2015 Berkshire Local Wildlife Site Description

TRENCH’ S BRIDGE

Site Code: SU86D02 Grid Reference: SU816665 Area (ha): 7.57 Local Authority: Wokingham Last Survey Date(s): 1984 Designation Date: Original LWS designation

Site Description An area of woodland and coppice with a stream running from north to south. Oak is the dominant tree in the canopy and there is much birch. In the wetter areas, in the west, alder is abundant. Species present include bluebell, remote sedge, dog’s mercury and lady fern. In the wetter areas common marsh bedstraw and bugle can be seen.

Produced by TVERC 24/04/2013 Berkshire Conservation Target Areas Descriptions

Thames Basin Heaths This area includes the Thames Basin Heaths SAC and the area between Bracknell and Ascot including Swinley Park and Brick Pits SSSI and Englemere Pond SSSI. To the west it includes a band of land south of Crowthorne and Wokingham where there are more heathland and bog sites such as Sandhurst to Owlsmoor Bogs and Heaths and a group of sites with remnants of these habitats. Joint Character Area: Thames Basin Heaths Geology: This area has a complex and varied geology dominated by various types of sand. The central area where the SAC is located has Camberley Sand with large areas of Surrey Hill Gravel. In the east there are the clays, silts and sands of the Windlesham Formation and in the north east Bagshot Formation sand. There are also patches of Swinley Clay, Head and River Terrace Gravel and Sand. The western has Camberley Sand, overlain in places by River Terrace Sand and Gravel, and a band of Windlesham Formation Sand. The north western area is Bagshot Sand with Head and River Terrace Sand and Gravel. Topography: a relatively flat area with slopes running down to the Blackwater Valley in the west. Biodiversity: • Heathland and Bog: There are extensive areas of heathland and bog at Sandhurst to Owlsmoor Bogs and Heaths SSSI, Wellington Bog SSSI and within the largely wooded Broadmoor to Bagshot Heaths and Woods. Remnants are found elsewhere including the golf course at Crowthorne. Bog is also found in association with ponds and small lakes at Englemere Pond and Rapley Lakes. In the west remnants of these habitats are found. The heathland is important for species such as nightjar, woodlark and Dartford warbler and also reptiles and butterflies such as silver studded blue and grayling. • Woodland: there are extensive areas of largely planted woodland and some semi- natural acidic woodland areas. There are patches of wet woodland in places. • Parkland and Wood pasture. There are numerous veteran trees within planted woodland at Swinley Park. • Ponds: the ponds and small lakes at Swinley Brick Pits, Rapley Lakes and Wellington College support good populations of dragonflies and damselflies, which are also associated with a number of other sites, and there are great crested newts at Swinley. • Other species: there is a water vole population near Sandhurst.

Geodiversity : The area has a number of important features such as the clear changes in underlying geology shown at Finchampstead Ridges. Access: Finchampstead Ridges is owned by the National Trust. Access in the east is extensive but controlled with nature reserves and other open access areas. Targets and Opportunities: Heathland and bog restoration and management. Access control. Significant areas of land are owned by MOD, Crown Estate, national Trust and BBOWT.