Valley Farmland
Landscape Character Type and Key habitats
- Occasional blocks of woodland and some hedgerows
- Small river tributaries of the Rother, wet meadows, marshes and wet woodland
Actions for nature
- Conserve and manage hedgerows and replant to restore hedgerow network, improve connectivity
- Manage woodlands to increase species and age diversity and seek opportunities to extend
- Maintain floodplain habitats. Restore floodplains, create wet woodland, reedbeds and wetland features
Nature-friendly actions
- Create arable margins and pollinator species corridors
- Maintain winter cover, feed crops or stubbles
- Interventions such as silt traps, margins and attenuation ponds to reduce soil run off
- Create buffer strips to water courses, hedgerows and woodland edges
- Increase species diversity of semi improved grasslands
- Create wildflower meadows
- Monitor and control invasive non-native species
Key sensitivities
- Neat hedgerows with oaks trees
- Remnant woodlands and commons
- Openness of landscape due to low proportion of woodland cover