Correspondence

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

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 Nottinghamshire.

SSSI name	European Designated Site name (where applicable)	Licence condition
Annesley Woodhouse Quarries SSSI		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 or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland more than 250 metres from a pond.
Attenborough Gravel Pits SSSI		No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. No licensed activities from 1 September to 31 March within or immediately adjacent to any reed-bed habitat. No licensed activities from 1 September to 31 March in, immediately adjacent to, nor across any large waterbody. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of rhododendron, cherry laurel scrub or conifer plantation.
Bagthorpe Meadows SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense bracken/dense scrub/secondary woodland.
Barnstone Railway Cutting SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland.
Birklands and Bilhaugh SSSI	Birklands & Bilhaugh SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense bracken/dense scrub/secondary woodland, rhododendron, cherry laurel scrub or conifer plantation. No trap to be located within 30 metres of a tree with a trunk diameter greater than 1 metre at breast height.
Birklands West and Ollerton Corner SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense bracken/dense scrub/secondary woodland, rhododendron, cherry laurel scrub or conifer plantation. No trap to be located within 30 metres of a tree with a trunk diameter greater than 1 metre at breast height.
Bogs Farm Quarry SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland.
Bulwell Wood SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of rhododendron, cherry laurel scrub or conifer plantation.
Clipstone Heath SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense bracken/dense scrub/secondary woodland.
Colwick Cutting SSSI		No additional conditions imposed
Dovedale Wood SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of rhododendron, cherry laurel scrub or conifer plantation.
Friezeland Grassland SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland, but must avoid all wet, marshy ground.
Gotham Hill Pasture SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland.
Hills and Holes and Sookholme Brook, Warsop SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense bracken/dense scrub/secondary woodland, but must avoid all wet, marshy ground.
Holme Pit SSSI		No trapping or driving of vehicles within wetland habitat.
Kimberley Railway Cutting SSSI		No additional conditions imposed
Kinoulton Marsh and Canal SSSI		No trapping or driving of vehicles within wetland habitat.
Kirkby Grives SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland.
Linby Quarries SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of rhododendron, cherry laurel scrub or conifer plantation.
Lord Stubbins Wood SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of rhododendron, cherry laurel scrub or conifer plantation.
Mather Wood SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Newhall Reservoir Meadow SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland.
Normanton Pastures SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland.
Orston Plaster Pits SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland.
Pleasley Vale Railway SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland, rhododendron, cherry laurel scrub or conifer plantation.
Rainworth Heath SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense bracken/dense scrub/secondary woodland. No trapping or driving of vehicles within wetland habitat.
Rainworth Lakes SSSI		No trapping or driving of vehicles within wetland habitat.
Redgate Woods and Mansey Common SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Robbinetts SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense bracken/dense scrub/secondary woodland.
Roe Wood SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Rushcliffe Golf Course SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense bracken/dense scrub/secondary woodland.
Seller’s Wood SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of rhododendron, cherry laurel scrub or conifer plantation.
Sherwood Forest Golf Course SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense bracken/dense scrub/secondary woodland.
Sledder Wood Meadows SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland.
Strawberry Hill Heaths SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense bracken/dense scrub/secondary woodland.
Teversal Pastures SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland.
Teversal to Pleasley Railway SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland.
Thoresby Lake SSSI		No trapping or driving of vehicles within wetland habitat. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense bracken/dense scrub/secondary woodland.
Welbeck Lake SSSI		No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season.
Wilford Claypits SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland but must avoid all wet, marshy ground. No trapping or driving of vehicles within wetland habitat.
Wilwell Cutting SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or, if present, to areas of dense scrub/secondary woodland.

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.