The Species and Habitat Action Plans

Our 52 action plans were initially compiled by numerous local experts between 2002-2005 and widely consulted amongst conservation specialists and potential partners. Their comments and amendments were incorporated and the plans adopted by the Steering Group. However, it was not intended that the plans should be set in stone and between 2012-15 a review was carried out to update them and make them more achievable and measurable. 

One of the results of the review was the creation of generic plans for actions that were common to all the plans: a generic species action plan and generic habitat action plan. 

Find out more about the Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull Local Biodiversity Action Plan (LBAP).

Updating the Action Plans: If you have carried out a project, or know of work, relating to any of the Action Plans listed below please contact:

Gina Rowe
Landscape Recovery Development Manager
Chair of LBAP
Email: gina.rowe@wkwt.org.uk
 

Much of the information in the habitat plans has been derived from the work of the Habitat Biodiversity Audit:

• Established in 1995 as a partnership between all the Local Authorities within Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull plus Natural England and Warwickshire Wildlife Trust. Its remit was to survey every field and boundary in the sub-region to provide up-to-date biodiversity data held on a Geographical Information System (GIS), that is updated annually.
• The data are invaluable in protecting and enhancing habitats across the sub-region as the planning authorities use the information for a range of purposes, including spatial planning and development control.
• As the longest continual running survey of its kind, the Phase 1 survey for Warwickshire has become an invaluable research data set for land-use change and landscape enhancements across the region.
• Recognized as European standard of good practice.

The Wildlife Sites Project began in 1999 to develop and maintain a formalized Local Wildlife Sites system for Warwickshire:

• Made up of Wildlife Sites and Local Geological Sites as part of a wider initiative also involving the Local Wildlife Sites system operated in Coventry and Solihull.
• Responsible for site selection in collaboration with the local authorities, and undertakes the detailed site survey generally referred to as a Phase 2 habitat survey against a set of criteria based on the Joint Nature Conservancy Council (JNCC) national criteria for the selection of biological Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
• These have been expanded to reflect a local authority’s role in nature conservation including local community characteristics.