Wood Pasture and Parkland HAP Review

Wood Pasture and Parkland HAP Review

Surrey WP&P Revised Targets (July 08)

1) Maintain 100% of existing wood pasture and parkland from the threat of agricultural intensification, development and degradation.

2) Ensure favourable management of 85% of existing wood pasture and parkland and ancient trees.

3) Gather and verify data to establish and update where historic, existing and potential WP&P lies within Surrey.

4) Begin the process of restoring two sites per year which have been identified as WP&P in Surrey. 14 sites by 2015.

5) Restore the habitat around 5 existing mature, ancient, veteran or next generation open grown trees per borough per year. Especially where these occur as individual or small groups (and especially in urban and farmland settings).

6) Ensure that public access in wood pasture and parkland is of low impact and sensitively managed, to avoid disturbance, especially to veteran trees and to vital dead wood habitats.

7) Raise awareness of the value of wood pasture and parkland and the veteran trees and biodiversity of this habitat in Surrey.

8) Support the existing system of advice for good management practices and for information on available grants and incentives.

9) Encourage protective ownership of key sites as and when opportunities to purchase arise.

10) Promote research and monitoring to ensure that advice and management are appropriate.

11) Create new Wood Pasture and Parkland sites especially where these extend or link existing sites or where historical sites would once have been.

Habitat Definition

Just for interest and seeing as the UK HAP group have said they will not offer a definition here is the Forestry Commission’s definition of WP&P: Revised definition for wood pasture.doc

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