Greensand Terrace
Landscape Character Type and Key habitats
- Extensive Broad leaved woodlands including Hanger woodlands
- Small pockets of grasslands, lowland meadows
- Network of hedgerows
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
- Manage existing species rich grassland and create further areas
Nature-friendly actions
- 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
- Increase species diversity of semi improved grasslands
- Create wildflower meadows
- Create streamside corridors of natural habitat as a buffer to other land uses
- Monitor and control invasive non-native species
Key sensitivities
- Prominent view of greensand scarp
- Ravine like streams
- Ancient hangar woodlands connected by thick hedgerows
- Open semi-natural grasslands
- Sunken lanes