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3.3.1 The following section provides a description of the works necessary to create or enhance the target area as shown on Figure 8.

Character Area: University Park

Target Area 3 Rockery

Located adjacent to 8 West, the rockery is to be maintained and enhanced through the continued introduction of appropriate plant species.

Target Area 4 Stumpery

Located south of 4 West building, the stumpery is to be expanded with more stumps as they become available and introducing new fern species.

Target Area 7 Swales

The University will continue to maintain the central University Park area as an ornamental landscape, including the central lake and priority areas for ecological focus towards the edges of the campus and its boundaries where the natural environment would be less disturbed by the presence of students.

Character Area: Entrance and Arrival - Norwood and Convocation Avenue

Target Area 14 Entrance trees

Entrance Avenue: A programme of re-planting is taking place where trees are over mature and to fill gaps.

Character Area: The Avenue

Target Area 8 Ancient beech avenue

Ancient Beech Avenue: A re-planting programme is ongoing with a strategy for future succession planting of Beech specimens underway including selectively thinning out and removing Laurel. The beech avenue is surveyed biennially. The strategy will be extended along the length of the avenue. Strategic management and planting will be undertaken in this area to ensure that a continuous canopy is maintained for foraging and commuting bats.

Character Area: Woodlands

The campus wide tree survey (Appendix 2) provides initial recommendations for works

required in the short, medium and long term and will inform the woodland strategy with regard to priority areas. All subsequent tree surveys relating to future planning applications and

development proposals to use the tagged and numbering system within this document for consistency and clarity.

Target Area 5 Eastwood nature walk

Eastwood Nature Trail and Woodland Management: along the north eastern boundary – the maintenance team have carried out a lot of work to date, including habitat creation. This is the preferred approach over adding more bird boxes for example which have maintenance implications. The addition of ‘Bug Hotels’ was considered to be appropriate but again if more natural environments can be achieved such as log piling etc this would be preferred. Woodland

habitat management works need to consider the presence of foraging and commuting bats, therefore strategic management should be undertaken to ensure that a continuous canopy is maintained. Appropriate species will also be planted that provide benefit to wildlife.

Target Area 10 Nature Pond

Adjacent to Lime Kiln Wood and Lime Kiln fields –this is underway and the location has been chosen. The location for the nature pond will be relatively undisturbed. Construction of the pond in under active consideration, due to the location it may need to be lined or could be filled with wood chipping to provide more natural conditions.

Target Area Additional woodland

Lime Kiln Wood: There is a ‘Strategic Tree Review’ which was produced by Hyder for the campus which suggests the south east corner of Lime Kiln fields is an area for additional woodland planting and it was agreed this could be a suitable location, although the peripheral woodland walk areas should take priority.

Character Area: Parkland Entrance – Quarry Road

Target Area 1 Quarry Road boundary

The dry stone walls along Quarry Road are a habitat for adders and there are 3 badger setts on the University side of the road.

Target Area 2 Existing Orchard

Two Orchards are managed by the University i.e one small area near the Lodge and a larger one off campus at Bathampton. Annual maintenance is carried out which involves apple tree pruning and grass cutting.

Character Area: Modern Pentathlon and Bobsleigh

Target Actions: 13. Alpine Landscape

The laser shooting range and bob-sleigh track includes an area of potential for landscape enhancements. Following an injection in UK sport funding, the University is identifying possible landscape and habitat opportunities as part of an uplift to this area.

Character Area: Sports fields:

Target Area 9 Woodland Understorey

Woodland understorey enhancements are currently undertaken by the University and managed on a yearly basis. Further woodland opportunities would be undertaken as part of the LEMP including hibernacular, thinning works and coppicing.

Character Area: Site wide

Target Area 6 Bee hives

There are currently 2 hives on campus at medical centre / Lodge and at least 10 being introduced at Bathampton Fieldstation which will be used for valuable bee research and

managed by researcher Mark Greco. Further bee habitats will be explored within the woodlands for wild bees to hibernate and overwinter in near future.

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Target Area 7 Swales

Existing swales are subject to review by the maintenance team to eradicate invasive weeds, reduce non native species and to provide an aesthetic and function sustainable feature. Swales will continue to be monitored and enhanced through regular maintenance regimes including selective thinning and cutting.

Precedent image – naturalised swale and ornamental landscape working together Target Area 11 Wildflower Meadow

The University campus features extensive amenity grass areas for sport, recreation and general use and will be subject to review to look at opportunities for longer grass and meadow planting. These limited areas will provide further benefit to wildlife and increase net biodiversity gain overall. The University is also actively managing off site grass land areas such as the Sulis Club and Bathampton Fields and introducing wildflower seeding as part of their annual maintenance regime.