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Conserving and enhancing
landscape quality and wildlife
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Parish falls within
Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) within Wessex Vales
Natural Area, and Isle of Portland/Weymouth Lowlands Character Area
RSPB/BTO Bird survey
data
Maps of priority habitats
in Parish, including Sites of Special Scientific Interest and Special
Conservation Areas
Many of the important
biodiversity sites are small and isolated and are therefore vulnerable
to decline
Identification of
key species needing protection; Water Vole, Lulworth Skipper, Gt Horseshoe
Bat, Black Poplar
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Work with landowners,
Rural Development Service and Dorset Wildlife Trust to use Environmental
Stewardship Scheme to help 're-build' biodiversity by linking sites
of conservation interest
Agree with the Environment
Agency changes to river vegetation clearance regimes to take help conserve
Water Vole population
Parish Tree Warden
to develop Action Plan for conserving Black Poplar and securing regeneration
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Conserving and enhancing
the Conservation Area and Parishes Historic assets
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Expansion of the village
is tightly controlled by Local Plan policies
The Conservation Area
designation does not have an up to date assessment or action plan
Stone walls are an
important and distinctive landscape feature
There is a proliferation
of signs across the Parish, many now redundant that detract from the
special character of the Parish.
A record of all signs
in the Parish has been taken
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Press WDDC for a Conservation
Area Assessment and action plan to conserve, enhance and raise awareness
of special qualities
Survey and record
state of all existing stone walls and work with landowners to improve
maintenance, where required
Restrict signs to
those which convey essential information only
Reduce signs to minimum
size and number
Locate signs onto
existing lamp columns, posts or buildings
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