Correspondence

Annex B: Provisions relating to licensed actions on or around protected sites in Cumbria

Published 7 September 2020

Applies to England

Licence Annex B: Provisions relating to licensed actions on or around Special Areas of Conservation (SACs), Special Protection Areas (SPAs), Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs), and/or Ramsar sites within the county of Cumbria.

SSSI name	European Designated Site name (where applicable)	Licence condition
Alston Shingle Banks	Tyne & Nent SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Appleby Fells	North Pennine Moors SPA Moor House-Upper Teesdale SAC	No shooting activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Argill Woods and Pastures		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Armboth Fells	Lake District High Fells SAC	No shooting activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks that are currently in use by vehicular traffic. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Ash Fell		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Ash Fell Edge		No additional conditions.
Augill Valley Pasture		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Backside Beck and Spen Gill		No additional conditions.
Baysbrown Wood		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Belah Woods and Pastures		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Birk Fell	Lake District High Fells SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks that are currently in use by vehicular traffic. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Birkett Hill and High Out Wood		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Blea Tarn		No additional conditions.
Blea Water		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Beech Hill Wood SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or/ and areas of rhododendron, cherry laurel scrub or conifer plantation.
Blackdike Bog SSSI		Except on existing tracks, no vehicle use nor placing traps alongside any watercourses or waterbodies, nor within any wet area, fen, bog or mire. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or/ and areas of rhododendron, cherry laurel scrub or conifer plantation.
Blelham Tarn & Bog		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Borrow Beck Meadows	North Pennine Dales Meadows SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks that are currently in use by vehicular traffic. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Bowber Head and Piper Hole Meadows	North Pennine Dales Meadows SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks that are currently in use by vehicular traffic. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Bowes Moor	North Pennine Moors SAC North Pennine Moors SPA	No shooting activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.
Bramcrag Quarry & Wanthwaite Mine		No additional conditions.
Brathay Quarries		No additional conditions.
Bretherdale Meadows	North Pennine Dales Meadows SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks that are currently in use by vehicular traffic. No digging in of traps within the site.
Brothers Water		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Browgill & Stockdale Becks		No additional conditions.
Burns Beck Moss		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.
Burrells Quarry		No additional conditions.
Butterwick Meadows		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Castlehead Wood		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Cautley Thwaite Meadows and Ecker Secker Beck	North Pennine Dales Meadows SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks that are currently in use by vehicular traffic. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Claife Tarns and Mires		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.
Cliburn Moss		No shooting or trapping activities within this site. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.
Close House Mine		No additional conditions.
Combe Scar SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Cotherstone Moor	North Pennine Moors SAC North Pennine Moors SPA	No shooting activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Cowraik Quarry		No additional conditions.
Crosby Gill	Asby Complex SAC	No vehicles to be used on site. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Avoid placing traps alongside watercourses or pools and not within wet areas, fens, bogs and mires.
Crosby Ravensworth Fell	Asby Complex SAC	No vehicles to be used on site. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Avoid placing traps alongside watercourses or pools and not within wet areas, fens, bogs and mires.
Cumpston Hill		No additional conditions.
Dungeon Ghyll		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Eden Gorge		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Elterwater		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Esthwaite Water	Esthwaite Water Ramsar	No shooting activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Ewefell Mire	Asby Complex SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Eycott Hill		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.
Foster’s Hush		No additional conditions.
George Gill		No additional conditions.
Glencoyne Wood SSSI	Ullswater Oakwoods SAC	No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Gowbarrow Park		No shooting activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Grains O’th’ Beck Meadows	North Pennine Dales Meadows SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks that are currently in use by vehicular traffic. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Great Asby Scar	Asby Complex SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks that are currently in use by vehicular traffic. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Great Blencow Meadows and Fen SSSI		Except on existing tracks, no vehicle use nor placing traps alongside any watercourses or waterbodies, nor within any wet area, fen, bog or mire. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Great Wood	Borrowdale Woodland Complex SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Hallinhag Wood	Ullswater Oakwoods SAC	No shooting activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Harthwaite Sike		No additional conditions.
Helbeck Wood	Helbeck & Swindale Woods SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Hell Gill SSSI		No additional conditions.
Helvellyn & Fairfield	Lake District High Fells SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks that are currently in use by vehicular traffic. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
High Lickbarrow Mires and Pastures		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Hollin Hill		No vehicles to be used on site. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Avoid placing traps alongside watercourses or pools and not within wet areas, fens, bogs and mires.
Janny Wood Section		No additional conditions.
Jenny Dam		No additional conditions.
Johnny Wood	Borrowdale Woodland Complex SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Jumb Quarry SSSI		No additional conditions proposed
Keisley Quarry		No additional conditions.
Knipe Tarn		No additional conditions.
Lamonby Verges and Fields		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Langdale Pikes		No additional conditions.
Langdale, Bowderdale and Carlin Gill		No additional conditions.
Lazonby Fell		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Little Asby Inrakes and Outrakes		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Little Langdale Tarn		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Little Mell Fell Quarry		No additional conditions.
Lodore - Troutdale Woods	Borrowdale Woodland Complex SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Longsleddale Woods SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or/ and areas of rhododendron, cherry laurel scrub or conifer plantation.
Loughrigg Fell Flushes		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.
Low Beckside Meadow		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Low Wood SSSI	Ullswater Oakwoods SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or/ and areas of rhododendron, cherry laurel scrub or conifer plantation.
Low Wray Bay		No additional conditions.
Ludderburn and Candlestick Mires		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.
Lune Forest	North Pennine Moors SAC North Pennine Moors SPA	No shooting activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Mallerstang-Swaledale Head	North Pennine Moors SAC North Pennine Moors SPA	No shooting activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Melmerby Road Section		No additional conditions.
Middlesceugh Woods and Pastures	Cumbrian Marsh Fritillary SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Millfield Verges		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Moorhouse and Cross Fell	Moor House-Upper Teesdale SAC North Pennine Moors SPA	No shooting activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Mousegill Beck		No additional conditions.
Mungrisdale Mires		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.
Murthwaite Park		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Naddle Forest	Naddle Forest SAC	No shooting activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks that are currently in use by vehicular traffic. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Newton Reigny Moss		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Orton Pastures		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Pets Quarry		No additional conditions.
Pinskey Gill		No additional conditions.
Pooley Bridge Section		No additional conditions.
Pus Gill		No additional conditions.
Raisbeck Meadows	North Pennine Dales Meadows SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks that are currently in use by vehicular traffic. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
River Derwent and Tributaries	River Derwent & Bassenthwaite Lake SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. No use of any cage trap within 100m of any watercourse and avoid placing any cage trap in any marshy, reed-bed, riparian or other type of wet habitat. Do not dig in any cage traps for one hour either side (i.e. 2 hours) of sunset and sunrise [Note. the setting open of traps to catch during these periods is permitted]. Do not use any fish-based bait.
River Eden and Tributaries	River Eden SAC	No shooting activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. No shooting activities within 200m of all watercourses. No vehicles to be used on site. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. No use of any cage trap within 100m of any watercourse and avoid placing any cage trap in any marshy, reed-bed, riparian or other type of wet habitat. Do not dig in any cage traps for one hour either side (i.e. 2 hours) of sunset and sunrise [Note. the setting open of traps to catch during these periods is permitted]. Do not use any fish-based bait. The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
River Kent and Tributaries	River Kent SAC	No additional conditions.
River Rawthey, Wandale Beck and Sally Beck		No additional conditions.
River South Tyne and Tynebottom Mine		No additional conditions.
Rosthwaite Fell		No additional conditions.
Scandal Beck and Stone Gill		No additional conditions.
Scandal Beck, Brunt Hill		No additional conditions.
Scout and Cunswick Scars	Morecambe Bay Pavements SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Shap Fell Road Cuttings		No additional conditions.
Shap Fells	Lake District High Fells SAC	No shooting activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season. No vehicles to be used on site. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Avoid placing traps alongside watercourses or pools and not within wet areas, fens, bogs and mires. The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Side Pike		No additional conditions.
Skelghyll Beck		No additional conditions.
Skelsmergh Tarn SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or/ and areas of rhododendron, cherry laurel scrub or conifer plantation.
Skelton Pasture	Cumbrian Marsh Fritillary SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Skiddaw Group	Lake District High Fells SAC	No shooting activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks that are currently in use by vehicular traffic. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Smardale Gill		No shooting activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Stagmire Moss		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.
Stile End SSSI		No additional conditions proposed
Stonethwaite Woods	Borrowdale Woodland Complex SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Sunbiggin Tarn & Moors and Little Asby Scar	Asby Complex SAC	No shooting activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks that are currently in use by vehicular traffic. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Swindale Beck		No additional conditions.
Swindale Meadows	North Pennine Dales Meadows SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks that are currently in use by vehicular traffic. No digging in of traps within the site.
Swindale Wood	Helbeck & Swindale Woods SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Tarn Hows		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.
Tarn Moss SSSI	Tarn Moss SAC	Except on existing tracks, no vehicle use nor placing traps alongside any watercourses or waterbodies, nor within any wet area, fen, bog or mire.
Tebay Road Cuttings		No additional conditions.
Temple Sowerby Moss		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
The Clouds	Asby Complex SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks that are currently in use by vehicular traffic. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
The Ings		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Thirlmere Woods		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Thornsgill Beck, Mosedale Beck and Wolf Crags		No additional conditions.
Town End Meadows, Little Asby	North Pennine Dales Meadows SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks that are currently in use by vehicular traffic. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Troutbeck SSSI		Except on existing tracks, no vehicle use nor placing traps alongside any watercourses or waterbodies, nor within any wet area, fen, bog or mire. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or/ and areas of scrub, rhododendron, cherry laurel scrub or conifer plantation.
Udford Low Moss		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Upper Teesdale	Moor House-Upper Teesdale SAC North Pennine Moors SPA	No shooting activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Wan Fell		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
West End Meadow, Lunds		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Wet Sleddale Meadows	North Pennine Dales Meadows SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks that are currently in use by vehicular traffic. No digging in of traps within the site.
Whitbarrow	Morecambe Bay Pavements SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Wilson Place Meadows	North Pennine Dales Meadows SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks that are currently in use by vehicular traffic. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Winster Wetlands		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Notes to Annex B

General note on interpretation

Protected sites that are listed above are not necessarily part of any active operations. Active operations can and will only occur on protected sites where landowner/occupier permission has been granted.

Within the licence conditions, use of the word ‘avoid’ denotes a prohibition, i.e. it indicates that an area must be excluded from relevant activities or that activities must not be undertaken during the time period stated or in the manner described. Similarly, the word ‘restrict’ means that activities must be confined to the areas or time periods stated.

For further details on each protected site and its notified features of special interest and/or European Site qualifying features please enter the site name into the following link: https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteSearch.aspx.

Individual notes

Note A

Natural England will inform the licensee from time to time of the information it requires. This is likely to focus on whether fox control is routinely undertaken on the relevant site and/or on areas of participating land within a few kilometres of the site. The licensee is expected to use reasonable endeavours to assist Natural England with the gathering of this information.

Note B

Natural England may form the judgment that measures should be introduced to secure the protection of species associated with this site, such as fox control, anti-predator fencing, habitat management, or buffer zones in which badger control is not undertaken. Such measures may be secured through cooperation between licensees, landowners, occupiers, and/or public bodies. If it considers it necessary to do so, Natural England may: exercise its powers under sections 28J-K of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 or regulation 20 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017; and/or revoke and re-issue this licence with revised terms (provided that such terms will be reasonable and proportionate in all of the circumstances).

Note W

European protected species are listed in Schedule 2 (animals) and Schedule 5 (plants) of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017. Nationally protected species are listed in Schedule 5 (animals) and Schedule 8 (plants) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as amended). Under these laws (regulations 43 and 47 of the 2017 Regulations and sections 9 and 13 of the 1981 Act), it can be an offence to:

• deliberately capture, injure or kill any wild animal of a European protected species
• intentionally kill, injure or take a nationally protected wild animal
• deliberately disturb wild animals of any European protected species
• intentionally or recklessly damage or destroy any structure or place which a nationally protected animal uses for shelter or protection, disturb such an animal while it is occupying such a structure or place, or obstruct access to any such structure or place
• damage or destroy a breeding site or resting place of any wild animal of a European protected species
• deliberately take or destroy the eggs of any wild animal of a European protected species
• deliberately pick, collect, cut, uproot or destroy a wild plant of a European protected species
• intentionally pick, uproot or destroy any nationally protected wild plant

Great crested newt, otter, dormouse, and sand lizard are European and nationally protected species.

Note Y

All birds, their eggs and nests (while in use or under construction) are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. This licence does not allow you to take or destroy such nests. Birds species listed under Schedule 1 of that Act have additional legal protection so care must be taken to avoid their disturbance during the breeding season.

Note Z

All bats and their roosts (even when not occupied by bats) are protected by the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 and by The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017. This licence does not allow you to enter or obstruct any bat roost, nor to disturb any bat whilst it is occupying a roost. Care must be taken to avoid sustained human presence near, or artificial illumination of cracks and cavities in trees and man-made structures, and of any mounted boxes.