Topic Paper Chilterns Beechwoods

Appendices <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Natural England reports </li><li style="flex:1">5</li></ul>679Chilterns Beechwoods Special Area of Conservation Appendix 1: Citation for Chilterns Beechwoods Special Area of Conservation (SAC) Appendix 2: Chilterns Beechwoods SAC Features Matrix Appendix 3: European Site Conservation Objectives for Chilterns Beechwoods Special Area of <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Conservation Site Code: UK0012724 </li><li style="flex:1">11 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">13 </li><li style="flex:1">Appendix 4: Site Improvement Plan for Chilterns Beechwoods SAC, 2015 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Ashridge Commons and Woods SSSI </li><li style="flex:1">27 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Appendix 5: Ashridge Commons and Woods SSSI citation </li><li style="flex:1">28 </li></ul>Appendix 6: Condition summary from Natural England’s website for Ashridge Commons and Woods SSSI 31 Appendix 7: Condition Assessment from Natural England’s website for Ashridge Commons and Woods <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">SSSI </li><li style="flex:1">33 </li></ul>Appendix 8: Operations likely to damage the special interest features at Ashridge Commons and Woods, SSSI, Hertfordshire/Buckinghamshire 38 Appendix 9: Views About Management: A statement of English Nature’s views about the management of <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Ashridge Commons and Woods Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), 2003 </li><li style="flex:1">40 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Tring Woodlands SSSI </li><li style="flex:1">44 </li></ul>Appendix 10: Tring Woodlands SSSI citation 45 Appendix 11: Condition summary from Natural England’s website for Tring Woodlands SSSI 48 Appendix 12: Condition Assessment from Natural England’s website for Tring Woodlands SSSI 51 53 Appendix 13: Operations likely to damage the special interest features at Tring Woodlands SSSI Appendix 14: Views About Management: A statement of English Nature’s views about the management <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">of Tring Woodlands Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), 2003. </li><li style="flex:1">55 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">National Trust reports for the Ashridge Estate </li><li style="flex:1">58 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Ecological reports </li><li style="flex:1">59 </li></ul>Appendix 15: A survey of Saproxylic coleopteran (and other invertebrates) of selected areas of the <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Ashridge Estate, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire by A.P.Foster, 2017 </li><li style="flex:1">60 </li></ul>Appendix 16: A survey of Saproxylic coleopteran (and other invertebrates) of selected areas of the <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Ashridge Estate, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire by A.P.Foster, 2018 </li><li style="flex:1">146 </li></ul>Appendix 17: Monument Drive, Ashridge Estate Breeding Bird Survey Report – draft by Denny Ecology, <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">October 2018 </li><li style="flex:1">294 </li></ul>Appendix 18: Preliminary Ecological Appraisal for the National Trust’s Proposed new car park, <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Ashridge Estate by Bernwood ECS Ltd, October 2017 </li><li style="flex:1">329 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Ground conditions </li><li style="flex:1">376 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Appendix 19: Cranfield University: Ground Compaction at Ashridge, June 2012 </li><li style="flex:1">377 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Woodland and Conservation Management Plans for Ashridge Estate </li><li style="flex:1">384 </li></ul>Appendix 20: Woodland Management Plan including priority actions map, summary overview map and <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">compartment plan, September 2019 </li><li style="flex:1">385 </li></ul>Appendix 21: Brief to produce a Conservation Management Plan for the central area of the Ashridge <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Estate and plan boundary by National Trust, July 2018 </li><li style="flex:1">440 </li></ul>Appendix 22: A Conservation Management Plan for the Central Area of the Ashridge Estate (Part 1) by <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Historic Environment Associates. September 2019 </li><li style="flex:1">463 </li></ul>Appendix 23: Nature Conservation Evaluation Ashridge Estate: Monument Drive, 2015 survey by <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">National Trust </li><li style="flex:1">609 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Recreational Pressure surveying </li><li style="flex:1">625 </li></ul>Appendix 24: National Trust’s Visitor Survey template 626 <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Woodlands Trust reports for Tring Park </li><li style="flex:1">628 </li></ul>629 Appendix 25: Potential Impacts of Recreation on Woodland Trust’s Tring Park Site, September 2019 Appendix 26: Ecological Walkover Assessment, Visitor Survey and Identification of Potential Impacts of Recreation on the Woodland Trust’s Tring Park Site, September 2019 675 NaturalEnglandReports Chiltern Beechwoods Special Area of Conservation Appendix 1: Citation for Chilterns Beechwoods Special Area of Conservation EC Directive 92/43 on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora Citation for Special Area of Conservation (SAC) Name: Chilterns Beechwoods Unitary Authority/County: Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, Windsor and Maidenhead SAC status: Designated on 1 April 2005 SP975134 Grid reference: SAC EU code: Area (ha): UK0012724 1276.48 Component SSSI: Ashridge Commons and Woods SSSI, Aston Rowant Woods SSSI, Bisham Woods SSSI, Bradenham Woods, Park Wood and The Coppice SSSI, Ellesborough and Kimble Warrens SSSI, Hollowhill and Pullingshill Woods SSSI, Naphill Common SSSI, Tring Woodlands SSSI, Windsor Hill SSSI Site description: The Chilterns Beechwoods represent a very extensive tract of ancient semi-natural beech Fagus sylvatica forests in the centre of the habitat’s UK range. The woodland is an important part of a mosaic with species-rich chalk grassland and scrub. A distinctive feature in the woodland flora is the occurrence of the rare coralroot Cardamine bulbifera. Standing and fallen dead timber provide habitat for dead-wood (saproxylic) invertebrates, including stag beetle Lucanus cervus. Qualifying habitats: The site is designated under article 4(4) of the Directive (92/43/EEC) as it hosts the following habitats listed in Annex I: · Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests. (Beech forests on neutral to rich soils) · Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies: on calcareous substrates (Festuco- Brometalia). (Dry grasslands and scrublands on chalk or limestone) Qualifying species: The site is designated under article 4(4) of the Directive (92/43/EEC) as it hosts the following species listed in Annex II: · Stag beetle Lucanus cervus This citation relates to a site entered in the Register of European Sites for Great Britain. Register reference number: UK0012724 Date of registration: 14 June 2005 Signed: On behalf of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Chilterns Beechwoods SAC UK0012724 Compilation date: May 2005 Version: 1 Designation citation Page 1 of 1 Appendix 2: Chilterns Beechwoods Special Area of Conservation Features Matrix Chilterns Beechwoods SAC Bradenham Woods, Park Wood & The Coppice SSSI Hollowhill <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">and </li><li style="flex:1">Bisham </li></ul>Aston Rowant Woods SSSI Woods SSSI <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Ellesborough </li><li style="flex:1">Naphill </li><li style="flex:1">Tring </li><li style="flex:1">Windsor </li></ul>Ashridge Commons and Woods SSSI and Kimble Pullingshill Common Woodlands Hill <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Warrens SSSI </li><li style="flex:1">Woods </li></ul>SSSI <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">SSSI </li><li style="flex:1">SSSI </li><li style="flex:1">SSSI </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Feature </li><li style="flex:1">001 002 003 004 005 006 007 001 002 004 005 006 007 008 001 002 001 002 001 002 003 004 001 002 </li><li style="flex:1">001 </li><li style="flex:1">001 </li><li style="flex:1">001 </li></ul><ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">H6210 Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies: on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia), (note that this includes the priority feature "important orchid rich sites") </li><li style="flex:1">UR UR ? UR </li></ul>H9130 Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests S1083 Stag beetle, Lucanus cervus <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">F</li><li style="flex:1">?</li><li style="flex:1">F</li><li style="flex:1">UR F </li><li style="flex:1">F</li><li style="flex:1">?</li><li style="flex:1">F</li><li style="flex:1">F</li><li style="flex:1">?</li><li style="flex:1">F</li><li style="flex:1">F</li><li style="flex:1">F</li><li style="flex:1">F</li><li style="flex:1">UR ? </li></ul>F<ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">?</li><li style="flex:1">?</li><li style="flex:1">F</li><li style="flex:1">F</li><li style="flex:1">F</li><li style="flex:1">?</li><li style="flex:1">?</li><li style="flex:1">F</li><li style="flex:1">UR </li><li style="flex:1">F</li></ul><a href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$ucSiteSACFeatureMatrix1$lbDownload','')" target="_blank">Download </a>Key: <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">F</li><li style="flex:1">Favourable </li></ul>UR Unfavourable recovering UN Unfavourable no change UD Unfavourable declining PD Partially destroyed D? Destroyed Not recorded /Appendix 3: European Site Conservation Objectives for Chilterns Beechwoods Special Area of Conservation Site Code UK0012724 European Site Conservation Objectives for Chilterns Beechwoods Special Area of Conservation Site Code: UK0012724 With regard to the SAC and the natural habitats and/or species for which the site has been designated (the ‘Qualifying Features’ listed below), and subject to natural change; Ensure that the integrity of the site is maintained or restored as appropriate, and ensure that the site contributes to achieving the Favourable Conservation Status of its Qualifying Features, by maintaining or restoring;  The extent and distribution of qualifying natural habitats and habitats of qualifying species  The structure and function (including typical species) of qualifying natural habitats  The structure and function of the habitats of qualifying species  The supporting processes on which qualifying natural habitats and the habitats of qualifying species rely  The populations of qualifying species, and,  The distribution of qualifying species within the site. This document should be read in conjunction with the accompanying Supplementary Advice document, which provides more detailed advice and information to enable the application and achievement of the Objectives set out above. Qualifying Features: H6210. Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies: on calcareous substrates (Festuco- Brometalia); Dry grasslands and scrublands on chalk or limestone H9130. Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests; Beech forests on neutral to rich soils S1083. Lucanus cervus; Stag beetle Explanatory Notes: European Site Conservation Objectives These Conservation Objectives are those referred to in the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 as amended from time to time (the “Habitats Regulations”). They must be considered when a competent authority is required to make a ‘Habitats Regulations Assessment’, including an Appropriate Assessment, under the relevant parts of this legislation. These Conservation Objectives and the accompanying Supplementary Advice (where available) will also provide a framework to inform the measures needed to conserve or restore the European Site and the prevention of deterioration or significant disturbance of its qualifying features. These Conservation Objectives are set for each habitat or species of a <a href="/goto?url=http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-4" target="_blank">Special Area of Conservation </a><a href="/goto?url=http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-4" target="_blank">(SAC)</a><a href="/goto?url=http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-4" target="_blank">. W</a>here the objectives are met, the site will be considered to exhibit a high degree of integrity and to be contributing to achieving Favourable Conservation Status for that species or habitat type at a UK level. The term ‘favourable conservation status’ is defined in regulation 3 of the Habitats Regulations. Publication date: 27 November 2018 (version 3). This document updates and replaces an earlier version dated 30 June 2014 to reflect the consolidation of the Habitats Regulations in 2017. Appendix 4: Site Improvement Plan for Chilterns Beechwoods Special Area of Conservation, 2015 Improvement Programme for England's Natura 2000 Sites (IPENS) Planning for the Future Site Improvement Plan Chilterns Beechwoods Site Improvement Plans (SIPs) have been developed for each Natura 2000 site in England as part of the Improvement Programme for England's Natura 2000 sites (IPENS). Natura 2000 sites is the combined term for sites designated as Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) and Special Protected Areas (SPA). This work has been financially supported by LIFE, a financial instrument of the European Community. The plan provides a high level overview of the issues (both current and predicted) affecting the condition of the Natura 2000 features on the site(s) and outlines the priority measures required to improve the condition of the features. It does not cover issues where remedial actions are already in place or ongoing management activities which are required for maintenance. The SIP consists of three parts: a Summary table, which sets out the priority Issues and Measures; a detailed Actions table, which sets out who needs to do what, when and how much it is estimated to cost; and a set of tables containing contextual information and links. Once this current programme ends, it is anticipated that Natural England and others, working with landowners and managers, will all play a role in delivering the priority measures to improve the condition of the features on these sites. The SIPs are based on Natural England's current evidence and knowledge. The SIPs are not legal documents, they are live documents that will be updated to reflect changes in our evidence/knowledge and as actions get underway. The information in the SIPs will be used to update England's contribution to the UK's Prioritised Action Framework (PAF). The SIPs are not formal consultation documents, but if you have any comments about the SIP or would like more information please email us at [email protected], or contact Natural England's Responsible Officer for the site via our enquiry service 0300 060 3900, or <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected] </a>This Site Improvement Plan covers the following Natura 2000 site(s) <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">UK0012724 </li><li style="flex:1">Chilterns Beechwoods SAC </li></ul>1/12 Site description The Chilterns Beechwoods SAC comprises nine separate sites scattered across the Chilterns. There are three features of interest: semi-natural grasslands and scrubland on chalk; Asperulo-Fagetum beech woodland (for which this is considered to be one of the best areas in the UK and lies in the centre of the habitat's UK range); and Stag beetle Lucanus cervus, for which the area is considered to support a significant presence. The rare coralroot Cardamine bulbifera is found in these woods. Plan Summary This table shows the prioritised issues for the site(s), the features they affect, the proposed measures to address the issues and the delivery bodies whose involvement is required to deliver the measures. The list of delivery bodies will include those who have agreed to the actions as well as those where discussions over their role in delivering the actions is on-going. <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Priority & Issue </li><li style="flex:1">Pressure </li></ul>or Threat <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Feature(s) affected </li><li style="flex:1">Measure </li><li style="flex:1">Delivery Bodies </li></ul>Secure appropriate woodland management 1 Forestry and woodland management Pressure/ Threat Forestry Commission, Natural England, Landowner(s), H9130 Beech forests on neutral to rich soils Chilterns Woodland Project, Chilterns Conservation Board Improve deer management <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">2 Deer </li><li style="flex:1">Pressure/ </li></ul>Threat Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust, Forestry Commission, National Trust, Natural England, Landowner(s), Local deer group, Chilterns Woodland Project, Chilterns Conservation Board, members of redundant Chilterns deer management groups H9130 Beech forests on neutral to rich soils Monitor stag beetle population 3 Changes in species distributions <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Threat </li><li style="flex:1">Forestry Commission, Natural </li></ul>England, Landowner(s), S1083 Stag beetle Chilterns Conservation Board, Local records centre(s) Investigate the impacts of Grey squirrel <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">4 Invasive species </li><li style="flex:1">Pressure/ </li></ul>Threat Forestry Commission, Natural England, Landowner(s), H9130 Beech forests on neutral to rich soils Chilterns Conservation Board 2/12 Address box blight, and other diseases <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">5 Disease </li><li style="flex:1">Threat </li></ul>Threat Forestry Commission, Natural England, Chilterns Woodland Project, Chilterns Conservation Board H9130 Beech forests on neutral to rich soils S1083 Stag beetle Reduce visitor impact on dead wood 6 Public Access/Disturbance Forestry Commission, National Trust, Natural England, Landowner(s), National Nature Reserve (NNR), Chilterns Woodland Project, Chilterns Conservation Board Establish a Site Nitrogen Action Plan 7 Air Pollution: impact of atmospheric nitrogen deposition <ul style="display: flex;"><li style="flex:1">Pressure </li><li style="flex:1">Natural England </li></ul>H6210 Dry grasslands and scrublands on chalk or limestone (important orchid sites), H9130 Beech forests on neutral to rich soils, S1083 Stag beetle 3/12 Issues and Actions This table outlines the prioritised issues that are currently impacting or threatening the condition of the features, and the outstanding actions required to address them. It also shows, where possible, the estimated cost of the action and the delivery bodies whose involvement will be required to implement the action. Lead delivery bodies will be responsible for coordinating the implementation of the action, but not necessarily funding it. Delivery partners will need to support the lead delivery body in implementing the action. In the process of developing the SIPs Natural England has approached the delivery bodies to seek agreement on the actions and their roles in delivering them, although in some cases these discussions have not yet been concluded. Other interested parties, including landowners and managers, will be involved as the detailed actions are agreed and delivered. Funding options are indicated as potential (but not necessarily agreed or secured) sources to fund the actions.

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