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Wooded Claylands

Wooded Claylands

Landscape Character Type and Key habitats

  • Deciduous woodlands
  • Small areas of lowland heath
  • Hedgerows

Actions for nature

  • Maintain ancient woodland and manage for age and species diversity
  • Restore broad leaved woodland where it has been planted with conifers, using suitable native species.
  • Look at connectivity
  • Heathland restoration and opportunities to improve connectivity, assess potential for creating new, interconnected heaths within the woodland mosaic
  • Restore hedgerows

Nature-friendly actions

  • Monitor and control invasive non-native species

Key sensitivities

  • Large areas of ancient woodland
  • Deer parks
  • Remnant areas of heathland

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