Attendees: Cllr Jo Willmer, Maz Woolley
- We reviewed the documentation returned by Michael and identified Michael’s handwritten notes which did not need to be incorporated in the appendix.
- We agreed that the structure should follow the lines of:
- Introductory Section and importance of connectivity between wildlife sites (Gov’t Report)
- Our Parish
- Wildlife (Flora and Fauna)
- Maps from Magic Map on species and habitats plus quotes of bats etc studies
- Local Wildlife sites lists, map, SSSIs
- Historical influences Ridge and Furrow and habitats
- Wildlife corridors provide internal connections
- Importance of woodland
- Stewardship schemes maps
- Water
- Try to get a map of the blue infrastructure
- Importance of grey infrastructure management to prevent flooding etc.
- How water courses provide wildlife corridors in many cases
- Wildlife (Flora and Fauna)
- Our Surroundings
- Lists of areas/corridors/Ramsar/cross boundary SSSIs etc
- Sub regional corridors – relationship with corridors in our plan
- List of key cross boundary wildlife areas like Upper Nene (Ramsar)
- SSSI’s split across boundaries
- Water catchment areas for Nene, flood to hold back runoff – link to swales etc in plan
- Lists of areas/corridors/Ramsar/cross boundary SSSIs etc
- Lists of Documents consulted to include Magic Map from Defra as info source
- Maz has taken away some of the background information and will research water and available maps and create a first draft appendix
- Jo to review the first draft and comment so that it may be revised before the second draft is released to Steering Group for comment, if needed another environment sub-group meeting will be held to discuss first draft