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Breckland SAC Conservation Objectives Supplementary Advice European Site Conservation Objectives: Supplementary advice on conserving and restoring site features Breckland Special Area of Conservation (SAC) Site Code UK0019865 © Natural England Date of Publication: 14 March 2019 Page 1 of 58 About this document This document provides Natural England’s supplementary advice about the European Site Conservation Objectives relating to Breckland SAC. This advice should therefore be read together with the SAC Conservation Objectives available here. Where this site overlaps with other European Sites, you should also refer to the separate European Site Conservation Objectives and Supplementary Advice (where available) provided for those sites. This advice replaces a draft version dated 16 January 2019 following the receipt of comments from the site’s stakeholders. You should use the Conservation Objectives, this Supplementary Advice and any case-specific advice given by Natural England when developing, proposing or assessing an activity, plan or project that may affect this site’ This Supplementary Advice to the Conservation Objectives presents attributes which are ecological characteristics of the designated species and habitats within a site. The listed attributes are considered to be those that best describe the site’s ecological integrity and which, if safeguarded, will enable achievement of the Conservation Objectives. Each attribute has a target which is either quantified or qualitative depending on the available evidence. The target identifies as far as possible the desired state to be achieved for the attribute. The tables provided below bring together the findings of the best available scientific evidence relating to the site’s qualifying features, which may be updated or supplemented in further publications from Natural England and other sources. The local evidence used in preparing this supplementary advice has been cited. The references to the national evidence used are available on request. Where evidence and references have not been indicated, Natural England has applied ecological knowledge and expert judgement. You may decide to use other additional sources of information. In many cases, the attribute targets shown in the tables indicate whether the current objective is to ‘maintain’ or ‘restore’ the attribute. This is based on the best available information, including that gathered during monitoring of the feature’s current condition. As new information on feature condition becomes available, this will be added so that the advice remains up to date. The targets given for each attribute do not represent thresholds to assess the significance of any given impact in Habitats Regulations Assessments. You will need to assess this on a case-by-case basis using the most current information available. Some, but not all, of these attributes can also be used for regular monitoring of the actual condition of the designated features. The attributes selected for monitoring the features, and the standards used to assess their condition, are listed in separate monitoring documents, which will be available from Natural England. These tables do not give advice about SSSI features or other legally protected species which may also be present within the European Site. If you have any comments or queries about this Supplementary Advice document please contact your local Natural England adviser or email [email protected] Page 2 of 58 About this site European Site information Name of European Site Breckland Special Area of Conservation (SAC) Location Norfolk, Suffolk The designated boundary of this site can be viewed here on the Site Map MAGIC website Designation Date 1 April 2005 Qualifying Features See section below 7548.06ha Designation Area Designation Changes N/A Details of the feature condition assessments made at this site can be Feature Condition Status found using Natural England’s Designated Sites System Barnhamcross Common SSSI Berner's Heath, Icklingham SSSI Bridgham & Brettenham Heaths SSSI Cavenham - Icklingham Heaths SSSI Cranwich Camp SSSI Deadman's Grave, Icklingham SSSI East Wretham Heath SSSI Field Barn Heaths, Hilborough SSSI Foxhole Names of component Heath, Eriswell SSSI Gooderstone Warren SSSI Grime's Graves SSSI Sites of Special Scientific Lakenheath Warren SSSI RAF Lakenheath SSSI Stanford Training Interest (SSSIs) Area SSSI Thetford Golf Course & Marsh SSSI Thetford Heaths SSSI Wangford Warren and Carr SSSI Weather and Horn Heaths, Eriswell SSSI Weeting Heath SSSI A significant part of the SAC coincides with the Breckland SPA – (see map). Relationship with other European or International Separate European Site Conservation Objectives for the nearby sites Site designations can be found at: Breckland SPA Site background and geography The SAC spans 7548.06ha across the Norfolk / Suffolk border and is situated within the Brecks National Character Area (NCA Profile 085). The NCA is characterised by a gently undulating plateau underlain by bedrock of Cretaceous Chalk that is largely covered by varying depths of windblown sand. The highly variable soils generally consist of a very sandy free-draining mix of chalk, sand, silt, clay and flints, which show marked pH variation within short distances. This has a profound influence on the natural vegetation and has resulted in mosaics of heather-dominated heathland, acidic grassland and calcareous grassland that are unlike those of any other site. In many places there is a linear or patterned distribution of heath and grassland, arising from fossilised soil patterns that formed under peri-glacial conditions. The climate of the Brecks is markedly less maritime than other parts of England, with relatively hot summers, cold winters and low rainfall. The unique combination of underlying geology, low-fertility soils, soil disturbance, a dry, frost-prone climate and grazing by sheep and rabbits has strongly influenced the natural and cultural evolution of the landscape. The history of the Brecks is one of change, with changing intensity and patterns of agriculture over many centuries. This has led to a very dynamic landscape that developed from low intensity agriculture, Page 3 of 58 extensive grazing systems and widespread rabbit farming using enclosed warrens, producing early successional habitats across the landscape with periodic disturbance and abandonment. Breckland’s history of windblown sand has left one of the best preserved systems of inland sand dune vegetation in the UK. This habitat type, which is in part characterised by the nationally rare grey hair- grass is associated with open conditions and with active sand movement. The site shows the colonisation sequence from open sand to acidic grass-heath. The heathland is representative of European dry heaths in East Anglia, which developed under a semi- continental climate. They largely fall into the sand sedge-dominated community, which is also typical of areas of blown sand, but is a very unusual feature of this location. Among the chalk grassland communities present is the largest remaining area of the rare CG7 Festuca ovina – Hieracium pilosella – Thymus praecox grassland. This grassland supports a large number of rare species some of which are confined to Breckland, or have their core UK distribution there. The structural and floristic characteristics of this community are more typical of a continental climate, with low rainfall and free-draining soils, than almost any other semi-natural dry grassland found in the UK. Along the river valleys occasional wet woodland dominated by alder and willow occurs beside rivers and streams in the floodplains. These woods rely on high water levels and sometimes surface flooding and are typically present on moderately base-rich, eutrophic soils subject to periodic inundation. Some stands are dominated by tall herbs, reeds and sedges while others consist of lower-growing communities. Aquifer-fed fluctuating meres are a feature of the Norfolk Breckland. These unique water bodies have an intrinsic regime of extreme fluctuation in water level, with periods of complete or almost complete drying out as part of the natural cycle. They are directly connected to the underlying groundwater system and periodically empty and recharge via swallow holes or smaller openings in their beds. Page 4 of 58 About the qualifying features of the SAC The following section gives you additional, site-specific information about this SAC’s qualifying features. These are the natural habitats and/or species for which this SAC has been designated. Qualifying habitats: • H2330 Inland dunes with open Corynephorus and Agrostis grasslands Inland dunes with open Corynephorus and Agrostis grasslands are an extremely rare habitat in the UK and are found in one small part of Breckland in East Anglia, eastern England. This habitat comprises inland dune grassland containing grey hair-grass Corynephorus canescens. In the UK the vegetation of this habitat falls within NVC types SD11 Carex arenaria – Cornicularia aculeata dune community, and SD12 Carex arenaria – Festuca ovina – Agrostis capillaris grassland, where the vegetation includes stands of grey hair-grass in inland situations. • H3150 Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition - type vegetation The Breckland meres in Norfolk represent natural eutrophic lakes in the east of England. They are examples of hollows within glacial outwash deposits and are fed by water from the underlying chalk aquifer. Natural fluctuations in groundwater tables mean that these lakes occasionally
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