South Gloucestershire Biodiversity Action Plan
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About the LBAP

 The South Gloucestershire Biodiversity Action Plan is guided by two forums - one, the Topic Group, consists of local parish council representatives and local wildlife group members and actively contributes towards the Plan at a parish level: and a second, the Wider Partnership, is made up from the statutory and non-statutory nature conservation bodies and provides a strategic overview and specialist advice.

Separate Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) on Biodiversity - 'Biodiversity & the Planning Process' - and Trees has been produced and is now out on public consultation. These precede the writing of the BAP itself, which will be written, implemented and reviewed by a Biodiversity Officer which the Council hopes to appoint shortly.

The SPG also includes a list of the habitats and species agreed by the Topic Group and Wider Partnership and which will make up the South Glos BAP. Some of these are of principle importance: others are of local interest or significance. Together, however, they form a list that is representative of the range of the species and habitats found in South Gloucestershire. The BAP is intended to be protean, too: while it will form the focus of our biodiversity work, it will be reviewed and added to on a regular basis.

Local partnerships

  • We are presently agreeing a list of key partners for each of the Plans. Work towards some of these Action Plans has already started - for example, by grant-aiding the erection of barn owl boxes; surveying for dormice in hedgerows; managing neglected areas of grassland;surveying ponds for great crested newts on land near known populations; and creating a GIS layer of records of the species and habitats in question to focus grant-aid more productively.

Habitat Action Plan list

Habitats which will be included in the BAP, when completed, and which will form the basis of the Supplementary Planning Guidance, to be finalised shortly, are:

  • Ancient (Semi-Natural) Woodland
  • Old Meadows and Pastures (encompassing lowland calcareous grassland, lowland meadows and lowland dry-acid grassland)
  • Ponds, Rhynes, Rivers and Water Bodies (chalk rivers)
  • Coastal Saltmarsh
  • Coastal Floodplain Grazing Marsh
  • Arable Farmland
  • Hedges and Field Margins

Species Action Plan List

Species which will be included in the BAP, when completed, and which will form the basis of the Supplementary Planning Guidance, to be finalised shortly, are:

  • Bithynian Vetch
  • Wild Service Tree
  • Adder's Tongue Spearwort
  • Tassel Stonewort
  • Bath Asparagus
  • Dormouse
  • Bullfinch
  • Song Thrush
  • Glow Worm
  • Slow Worm
  • White-Clawed Crayfish
  • Barn Owl
  • Great Crested Newt
  • Hedgehog

 

Contact

David Villis or Alison Slade
South Gloucestershire Council
Civic Centre
High Street
Kingswood
BS15 9TR

david_villis@southglos.gov.uk
alison_slade@southglos.gov.uk

01454 862467

 

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