Wealden River Floodplains
Landscape Character Type and Key habitats
- Floodplain grazing marsh and ditch systems
- Lowland fens wet woodland
Actions for nature
- Maintain floodplain habitats
- Restore floodplains, create wet woodland, reedbeds and wetland features
- Manage lowland fens
Nature-friendly actions
- Plant bank side trees
- Create riverside corridors of natural habitat as a buffer to other land uses
- Increase species diversity in semi improved and improved grasslands
- Restore and create ponds
- Monitor and control invasive non-native species
Key sensitivities
- Flat open character
- Meandering channels and network of tributaries
- Floodplain meadows, bankside trees and other wetland habitats