Scarp Foot Slopes
Landscape Character Type and Key habitats
- Broad leaved woodlands and hedgerows
- Small areas of calcareous grassland
- Occasional wetland habitats, small streams, ponds
Actions for nature
- Manage broad leaved woodlands for species and age diversity and resilience
- Seek opportunities to enlarge and connect woodlands using appropriate species
- Manage hedgerows and hedgerow trees and plant to complete the network and connectivity to woodland
- Seek opportunities to extend calcareous grassland onto lower slopes of scarp and provide buffer
- Manage and naturalise wetland habitats.
Nature-friendly actions
- Increase species diversity of semi improved grasslands
- Create wildflower meadows
- Create arable margins and pollinator species corridors
- Maintain winter cover, feed crops or stubbles
- Create buffer strips to chalk grassland areas, hedgerows and woodland edges
- Restore and create ponds
Key sensitivities
- Undulating topography with small fields bounded by intact hedgerow network and woodlands