A TREE AND WOODLAND STRATEGY FOR THE WEST OF

5.3 North Shoreline and Moors Forest of

Map Ref: 3.1 outside Grant Schemes, which are not low cut and Moors and/or where hedgerow trees are present. (NSC A1) f. Conserve hedgerow and field trees and plant new ones at irregular spacings where absent within a. Ensure woodlands have a current Forestry hedged boundaries. Commission management plan (or equivalent), addressing broad objectives, supporting their g. Ensure public access routes are easy to use and preparation and delivery. follow b. Conserve small orchards scattered through this area, prioritising outside a grant scheme, Map Ref: 3.2 working to maintain locally distinctive varieties Kenn and Tickenham Moors (NSC A3) and extending orchards, whilst conserving priority a. Ensure woodlands have a current Forestry habitats, historic monuments and viewpoints. Commission management plan (or equivalent), c. Conserve willow pollards, re-pollarding these addressing broad objectives, supporting their as necessary to ensure long-term contribution preparation and delivery. to landscape character and as a farm timber b. Conserve small orchards scattered through resource. Establish small, irregular groups of this area, prioritising outside a grant scheme, native large willow adjacent to watercourses working to maintain locally distinctive varieties where permitted by statutory conservation and extending orchards, whilst conserving priority designations. habitats, historic monuments and viewpoints. d. Ensure any new development requires the c. Conserve willow pollards, re-pollarding these conservation and planting of trees within the site as necessary to ensure long-term contribution and as determined by scale and impact, includes to landscape character and as a farm timber off-site tree and woodland planting. resource. Establish small, irregular groups of e. Conserve and regenerate hedgerow boundaries native large willow adjacent to watercourses wherever possible with an initial focus on those

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where permitted by statutory conservation Map Ref: 3.4 designations. Woodspring Bay (NSC L3) d. Ensure any new development requires the Not appropriate for trees and woodlands. conservation and planting of trees within the site and as determined by scale and impact, includes off-site tree and woodland planting. Map Ref: 3.5 e. Conserve and regenerate hedgerow boundaries Middlehope Ridges and Combes with an initial focus on those outside Grant (part of NSC E3) Schemes, which are not low cut and/or where a. Manage scrub in sheltered areas in line with a hedgerow trees are present. wider management plan for the SSSIs and Ramsar f. Conserve hedgerow and field trees and plant new site. ones at irregular spacings where absent within b. Ensure public access routes are easy to use and hedged boundaries. follow g. Ensure public access routes are easy to use and follow.

Map Ref: 3.3 Locking and Moors (NSC A4) a. Ensure woodlands have a current Forestry Commission management plan (or equivalent), addressing broad objectives, supporting their preparation and delivery. b. Conserve small orchards scattered through this area, prioritising outside a grant scheme, working to maintain locally distinctive varieties and extending orchards, whilst conserving priority habitats, historic monuments and viewpoints. c. Conserve willow pollards, re-pollarding these as necessary to ensure long-term contribution to landscape character and as a farm timber resource. Establish small, irregular groups of native large willow adjacent to watercourses where permitted by statutory conservation designations. d. Ensure any new development requires the conservation and planting of trees within the site and as determined by scale and impact, includes off-site tree and woodland planting. e. Conserve and regenerate hedgerow boundaries wherever possible with an initial focus on those outside Grant Schemes, which are not low cut and/ or where hedgerow trees are present. f. Conserve hedgerow and field trees and plant new ones at irregular spacings where absent within hedged boundaries. g. Ensure public access routes are easy to use and follow.

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