Correspondence

Annex B: Provisions relating to licensed actions on or around protected sites in Devon

Published 7 September 2020

Applies to England

Licence Annex B: provisions relating to licensed actions on or around Special Areas of Conservation (SACs), Special Protection Areas (SPAs), Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs), and/or Ramsar sites within the county of Devon.

SSSI name European Designated Site name (where applicable) Licence condition
Aller Sand Pit   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

No digging in of traps in the area of geological features
Andrew’s Wood   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Arlington   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Ashburton Road Cuttings   No additional conditions imposed.
Ashculm Turbary   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Axmouth to Lyme Regis Under Cliffs Sidmouth to West Bay SAC Restrict access to footpaths i.e no vehicular access permitted.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Exclude the littoral sediment and supralittoral sediment and shingle zones.
Babbacombe Cliffs   No additional conditions imposed.
Barle Valley Exmoor & Quantock Oakwoods SAC No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing surfaced tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

No use of any cage trap within 100m of any watercourse and avoid placing any cage trap in any marshy, reed-bed, riparian or other type of wet habitat.

Do not dig in any cage traps for one hour either side (i.e. 2 hours) of sunset and sunrise [Note. the setting open of traps to catch during these periods is permitted].

Do not use any fish-based bait.

Activities conducted under this licence must comply with legal obligations described in Note Z.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Barricane Beach   No additional conditions imposed.
Beaford Moor   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Beer Quarry and Caves Beer Quarry & Caves SAC Exclude SSSI.

No access within 20m of the SSSI
Berry Head to Sharkham Point South Hams SAC Exclude SSSI.

No access within 20 metres of all caves, quarries and mine shafts at any time of the year.

No access within 50 metres of sea cliffs.
Bickleigh Wood Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
Billacombe   Exclude SSSI
Black Down and Sampford Commons   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Blackslade Mire   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Blackstone Point Blackstone Point SAC No additional conditions imposed.
Bolshayne Fen   Exclude SSSI
Bolt Head to Bolt Tail South Devon Shore Dock SAC
Start Point to Plymouth Sound and Eddystone SAC
No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Bonhay Road Cutting   No additional conditions imposed.
Bovey Heathfield   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Bovey Valley Woodlands South Dartmoor Woods SAC Avoid shooting, trapping and vehicle use in woodland areas.

No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Bradiford Valley   Avoid woodland areas.

No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Bradworthy Common Culm Grasslands SAC All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Brampford Speke   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Braunton Burrows Braunton Burrows SAC All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Avoid wet woodland areas containing salix cinerea - Galium palustre woodland (Grey Willow).
Braunton Swanpool   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Brendon and Vealand Fen   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Brendon Farm (North)   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Brent Tor   No additional conditions imposed.
Brocks Farm   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Broom Gravel Pits   No additional conditions imposed.
Buckfastleigh Caves South Hams SAC Exclude SSSI.

No access within 20 metres of all caves, quarries and mine shafts at any time of the year.
Buckland-in-the-Moor   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.
Budleigh Salterton Cliffs   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Bulkamore Iron Mine South Hams SAC No access to the disused quarry or within 20m of the disused shaft (both sited in the south-east corner of Mine Copse).

No access within 20 metres of any entrance to a cave, mine, or shaft at any time of the year.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Buller’s Hill Quarry   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

No digging in of traps in the area of geological features.
Bulmoor Pastures & Coppice   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Burrator Quarries   No additional conditions imposed.
Bursdon Moor Culm Grasslands SAC All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Caen Valley Bats   Exclude SSSI and immediate surroundings - 20m from cave entrance
Chapel Hill   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Chipley Quarries   No additional conditions imposed.
Cholwell Brook   No additional conditions imposed.
Chudleigh Caves and Woods South Hams SAC No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season.

No access within 50 metres of all cave entrances (south-facing cliffs of main rock exposure of gorge) and 20 metres from all other caves, quarries and mine shafts at any time of the year.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Chudleigh Knighton Heath   Restrict pedestrian access to existing tracks and paths from 1 March to 30 September.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Common Moor Langtree   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Common Moor, East Putford   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Coombe Meadow   Avoid woodland areas.

No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Coryton Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
Crockham Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
Daddyhole   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Dawlish Cliffs   No additional conditions imposed.
Dawlish Warren Dawlish Warren SAC
Exe Estuary SPA & Ramsar
Except for vehicle use on existing roads and tracks, during the period from 1 September to 31 March, no licensed activities within 200 metres of any intertidal, saltmarsh, beach, reed bed or grazing marsh habitats.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Exclude vehicles from the supralittoralrock zone.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Any decaying wood located within the sett footprint is to be left in situ if possible. If decaying wood must be moved then it should be moved no further than is necessary.

Check locations of sand crocus and agree any trap locations with National Nature reserve site staff before digging.

No digging in of traps within the saltmarsh or sand lizard habitat (check with site staff).
Dean Steep   No additional conditions imposed.
Dendles Wood Dartmoor SAC Avoid woodland areas.

No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

No use of any cage trap within 100m of any watercourse and avoid placing any cage trap in any marshy, reed-bed, riparian or other type of wet habitat.

Do not dig in any cage traps for one hour either side (i.e. 2 hours) of sunset and sunrise [Note. the setting open of traps to catch during these periods is permitted].

Do not use any fish-based bait.
Deptford Farm Pastures   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Devon Great Consols   Exclude SSSI
Devon United Mine   Exclude SSSI
Dunnabridge Meadows   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Dunsdon Farm Culm Grasslands SAC Avoid woodland areas.

No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Dunsland Park   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Exclude vehicles from the supralittoral rock zone.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Any decaying wood located within the sett footprint is to be left in situ if possible. If decaying wood must be moved then it should be moved no further than is necessary.
Dyer’s Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
East Dartmoor Dartmoor SAC Avoid woodland areas.

No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

No use of any cage trap within 100m of any watercourse and avoid placing any cage trap in any marshy, reed-bed, riparian or other type of wet habitat.

Do not dig in any cage traps for one hour either side (i.e. 2 hours) of sunset and sunrise [Note. the setting open of traps to catch during these periods is permitted].

Do not use any fish-based bait.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
East Devon Pebblebed Heaths East Devon Pebblebed Heaths SAC
East Devon Heaths SPA
No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Except on existing tracks, no vehicle use or placing traps alongside any watercourses or waterbodies, or within any wet area, fen, bog or mire.

Operations conducted under this licence must comply with existing legal obligations described in Note Y.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
East Ogwell Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
Erme Estuary   No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

No digging in of traps within the saltmarsh.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Exe Estuary Exe Estuary SPA & Ramsar No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season.

Except for vehicle use on existing roads and tracks, during the period from 1 September to 31 March, no licensed activities within 200 metres of any intertidal, saltmarsh, beach, reed bed or grazing marsh habitats.

Avoid placing traps alongside watercourses or pools and not within wet areas, fens, bogs and mires.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Exmoor Coastal Heaths Exmoor Heaths SAC No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing surfaced tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Exclude the littoral sediment and supralittoral sediment and shingle zones.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Faraday Road   No additional conditions imposed.
Five Oaks, Bampton   No additional conditions imposed.
Fremington Claypit   No additional conditions imposed.
Fremington Quay Cliffs   No additional conditions imposed.
Froward Point   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Furley Chalk Pit   No additional conditions imposed.
Gilmoor and Moorlands   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Glenthorne   No additional conditions imposed.
Great Haldon Heaths   No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Greenaways and Freshmarsh, Braunton   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July
Grenofen Wood and West Down   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Haldon Forest   Except on existing tracks, no licensed activities within 400m radius of goshawk nests from 1 March to 30 September (see Note Y).

Except on existing tracks, no licensed activities within 400m radius of honey-buzzard nests from 1 May to 31 August (see notes Y).

Consult the Forestry Commission for information about significant breeding and roosting bird locations, as required, and agree with them all trap locations in advance.

Check for nearby nesting birds when selecting trap locations.

No licensed activities in open space areas that might be used by nightjar from 1 March to 30 September, (i.e. restrict licensed activities to closed canopy woodland or thicket-stage conifers during the period stated).

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

No vehicle movements in butterfly conservation area (under the wayleave for the overhead high voltage electricity cables).

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Hallsands-Beesands   No additional conditions imposed.
Halsdon   Avoid woodland areas.

No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Halstock Wood   Avoid woodland areas.

No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Hannaborough Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
Hare’s Down, Knowstone & Rackenford Moors Culm Grasslands SAC No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Haytor and Smallacombe Iron Mines South Hams SAC Exclude SSSI.

No access within 20 metres of all caves, quarries and mine shafts at all times of the year.
Haytor Rocks and Quarries   No additional conditions imposed.
Hele, Samson’s and Combe Martin Bays   No additional conditions imposed.
Hembury Woods South Dartmoor Woods SAC All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

No licensed activities from 1 October to 15 April within 20m of any entrance to a cave, mine, shaft or adit.
Hense Moor   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub more than 250 metres from a pond.

Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Hense Moor Meadows   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
High Down Quarry   No removal of minerals from site and avoid excessive disturbance when digging in traps
High Marks Barn   Exclude SSSI and immediate surrounds from activities from 15 April to 15 October.
Hobby to Peppercombe Tintagel-Marsland-Clovelly Coast SAC No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Avoid woodland areas.
Hollow Moor & Odham Moor Culm Grasslands SAC All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Holne Woodlands South Dartmoor Woods SAC Avoid shooting, trapping and vehicle use in woodland areas.

No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing surfaced tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Hope’s Nose to Wall’s Hill   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks when ground conditions are wet.

No digging in of traps in within grassland areas without plant survey
Hunshaw Wood   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Kents Cavern   No digging in of traps permitted without prior archaeological survey and archaeological supervision of dig.
Kersdown Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
Killerton   No additional conditions imposed.
Kingford Fen   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Kismeldon Meadows Culm Grasslands SAC All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Ladram Bay to Sidmouth   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Lady’s Wood and Viaduct Meadow   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Lambert’s Castle   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Laughter Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
Leusdon Common   No additional conditions imposed.
Little Haldon Heaths   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Lockridge Mine   Exclude SSSI
Long Lye   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Lord’s Wood   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Lower Dunscombe Farm Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
Lower Whipcott   No additional conditions imposed.
Lummaton Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
Lydford Gorge   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Lydford Railway Ponds   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Avoid placing traps alongside watercourses or pools and not within wet areas, fens, bogs and mires.
Maiden Down   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Mambury and Stowford Moors Culm Grasslands SAC All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Marsland to Clovelly Coast Tintagel-Marsland-Clovelly Coast SAC No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Avoid woodland areas.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Meadfoot Sea Road   No additional conditions imposed.
Meddon Moor   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Meldon Aplite Quarry   Exclude SSSI
Meldon Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
Mermaid’s Pool to Rowden Gut   No additional conditions imposed.
Merrivale   No additional conditions imposed.
Mill Rock   No additional conditions imposed.
Morte Point   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Mount Wise   No additional conditions imposed.
Napp’s Cave   No additional conditions imposed.
New Cut, Torquay   No additional conditions imposed.
North Dartmoor Dartmoor SAC No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

No use of any cage trap within 100m of any watercourse and avoid placing any cage trap in any marshy, reed-bed, riparian or other type of wet habitat.

Do not dig in any cage traps for one hour either side (i.e. 2 hours) of sunset and sunrise [Note. the setting open of traps to catch during these periods is permitted].

Do not use any fish-based bait.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
North Exmoor Exmoor & Quantock Oakwoods SAC
Exmoor Heaths SAC
No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing surfaced tracks at all times.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

No use of any cage trap within 100m of any watercourse and avoid placing any cage trap in any marshy, reed-bed, riparian or other type of wet habitat.

Do not dig in any cage traps for one hour either side (i.e. 2 hours) of sunset and sunrise [Note. the setting open of traps to catch during these periods is permitted].

Do not use any fish-based bait.

Activities conducted under this licence must comply with legal obligations described in Note Z.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Northam Burrows   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Exclude the littoral sediment and supralittoral sediment and shingle zones.

Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.

No shooting activities from 1 September to 30 April in areas of intertidal fen, reed bed and grazing marsh habitats.

Restrict activities to further than 200m outside of high tide roost areas or only allow activities outside of the period 2hrs before, during and 2hrs after high tide.
Nymet Barton Marsh   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Occombe   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Okehampton Park Flush   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Otter Estuary   Avoid woodland areas and areas adjacent to reedbeds.

No activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Exclude the littoral sediment and supralittoral sediment and shingle zones.

No digging in of traps within the saltmarsh.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Park Farm Meadows   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Park Gate Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
Piles Copse   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Pitt’s Cleave   No additional conditions imposed.
Plaistow Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
Plymbridge Lane & Estover Road   No additional conditions imposed.
Plymouth Sound Shores and Cliffs Plymouth Sound and Estuaries SAC All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

No access to nor activities within any intertidal or saltmarsh habitat.
Popehouse Moor   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Posbury Clump   No additional conditions imposed.
Potter’s Wood   Exclude access within 20m of the disused mine shaft entrances (St Catherines Well and Bunkers Hole)
Prawle Point and Start Point South Devon Shore Dock SAC
Start Point to Plymouth Sound and Eddystone SAC
No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Pridhamsleigh Caves   No additional conditions imposed.
Quarry Fields Farm   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Ransley Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
Reed’s Farm Pit    
Ribsons Meadows   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Richmond Walk   No additional conditions imposed.
Ringdown   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
River Axe River Axe SAC All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

No vehicle use within 5m of any watercourse, except on existing tracks.

Exclude vehicles from the supralittoral rock zone.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Any decaying wood located within the sett footprint is to be left in situ if possible. If decaying wood must be moved then it should be moved no further than is necessary.

No use of any cage trap within 100m of any watercourse and avoid placing any cage trap in any marshy, reed-bed, riparian or other type of wet habitat.

Do not dig in any cage traps for one hour either side (i.e. 2 hours) of sunset and sunrise [Note. the setting open of traps to catch during these periods is permitted].

Do not use any fish-based bait.
River Lemon Valley Woods   Avoid woodland areas.

No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
River Lyn   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Roundham Head   No additional conditions imposed.
Rushford Wood   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Ryecroft Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
Salcombe to Kingsbridge Estuary   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

No access to nor activities within any intertidal or saltmarsh habitat.
Saltern Cove   No additional conditions imposed.
Sampford Spiney South Dartmoor Woods SAC Avoid shooting, trapping and vehicle use in woodland areas.

No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Saunton to Baggy Point Coast   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Scabbacombe   Exclude SSSI
Shapwick Grange Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
Shaugh Prior Woods South Dartmoor Woods SAC All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Sidmouth to Beer Coast Sidmouth to West Bay SAC Exclude all access from the littoral sediment and supralittoral sediment and shingle zones.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Any decaying wood located within the sett footprint is to be left in situ if possible. If decaying wood must be moved then it should be moved no further than is necessary.
Slapton Ley   No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season.

Exclude areas of open water and their margins from licensed activities from 1 September to 31 March.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing surfaced tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Avoid wet woodland areas containing salix cinerea - Galium palustre woodland (Grey Willow).

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Small Brook   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
South Brentor Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
South Dartmoor Dartmoor SAC All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

No use of any cage trap within 100m of any watercourse and avoid placing any cage trap in any marshy, reed-bed, riparian or other type of wet habitat.

Do not dig in any cage traps for one hour either side (i.e. 2 hours) of sunset and sunrise [Note. the setting open of traps to catch during these periods is permitted].

Do not use any fish-based bait.
South Exmoor Exmoor Heaths SAC No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
South Milton Ley   No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Except on existing tracks, no vehicle use nor placing traps alongside any watercourses or waterbodies, nor within any wet area, fen, bog or mire.
Southacre Clay Pits   No additional conditions imposed.
Southey and Gotleigh Moors   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Southmoor Farm   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Spara Bridge   No additional conditions imposed.
Spring Head, Axmouth   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Avoid wet woodland areas containing salix cinerea - Galium palustre woodland (Grey Willow).
Staddon Moor   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Steeple Point to Marsland Mouth Tintagel-Marsland-Clovelly Coast SAC No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Avoid woodland areas.
Stoke Woods   Avoid woodland areas.

No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Stokenham   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Stout’s Cottage   No additional conditions imposed.
Stover Park   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Avoid placing traps alongside watercourses or pools and not within wet areas, fens, bogs and mires.
Tamar - Tavy Estuary Plymouth Sound & Estuaries SAC
Tamar Estuaries Complex SPA
All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

No access to nor activities within any intertidal or saltmarsh habitat.

Except for vehicle use on existing roads and tracks, during the period from 1 September to 31 March, no licensed activities within 200 metres of any intertidal, saltmarsh, reed-bed or grazing marsh habitats.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Taw-Torridge Estuary   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Exclude the littoral sediment and supralittoral sediment and shingle zones.

No licensed activities from 1 September to 30 April in areas of intertidal fen, reed bed and grazing marsh habitats.

Restrict activities to further than 200m outside of high tide roost areas or only allow activities outside of the period 2hrs before, during and 2hrs after high tide.
Teign Valley Woods South Dartmoor Woods SAC Avoid shooting, trapping and vehicle use in woodland areas.

No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing surfaced tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Thorne and Doves Moors Culm Grasslands SAC All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Tidcombe Lane Fen   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Tor Royal Bog Dartmoor SAC Avoid woodland areas.

No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

No use of any cage trap within 100m of any watercourse and avoid placing any cage trap in any marshy, reed-bed, riparian or other type of wet habitat.

Do not dig in any cage traps for one hour either side (i.e. 2 hours) of sunset and sunrise [Note. the setting open of traps to catch during these periods is permitted].

Do not use any fish-based bait.
Torbryan Caves   No additional conditions imposed.
Tower Wood Quarry   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

No digging in of traps in the area of geological features
Two Bridges Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
Ugbrooke Park   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.
Wallsend Industrial Estate   No additional conditions imposed.
Watersmeet Exmoor & Quantock Oakwoods SAC No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season.

Restrict pedestrian access to existing tracks and paths from 1 March to 30 September.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing surfaced tracks at all times.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

No use of any cage trap within 100m of any watercourse and avoid placing any cage trap in any marshy, reed-bed, riparian or other type of wet habitat.

Do not dig in any cage traps for one hour either side (i.e. 2 hours) of sunset and sunrise [Note. the setting open of traps to catch during these periods is permitted].

Do not use any fish-based bait.

Activities conducted under this licence must comply with legal obligations described in Note Z.
Webberton Cross Quarries   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Wembury Point   No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
West Exmoor Coast and Woods Exmoor & Quantock Oakwoods SAC
Exmoor Heaths SAC
Avoid shooting, trapping and vehicle use in woodland areas.

No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season.

No access to within 50m of cliff edges.

Restrict vehicles to existing surfaced tracks at all times.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

No use of any cage trap within 100m of any watercourse and avoid placing any cage trap in any marshy, reed-bed, riparian or other type of wet habitat.

Do not dig in any cage traps for one hour either side (i.e. 2 hours) of sunset and sunrise [Note. the setting open of traps to catch during these periods is permitted].

Do not use any fish-based bait.

Activities conducted under this licence must comply with legal obligations described in Note Z.
Western King   Exclude SSSI
Westward Ho! Cliffs   No additional conditions imposed.
Wheal Emily   No additional conditions imposed.
Whiddon Deer Park   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Exclude vehicles from the supralittoral rock zone.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

Any decaying wood located within the sett footprint is to be left in situ if possible. If decaying wood must be moved then it should be moved no further than is necessary.
Whiddon Moor, Luckroft and Odham Marshes   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Whitchurch Down   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Whiteleigh Meadows   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Wilmington Quarry   No additional conditions imposed.
Wistman’s Wood Dartmoor SAC All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

No use of any cage trap within 100m of any watercourse and avoid placing any cage trap in any marshy, reed-bed, riparian or other type of wet habitat.

Do not dig in any cage traps for one hour either side (i.e. 2 hours) of sunset and sunrise [Note. the setting open of traps to catch during these periods is permitted].

Do not use any fish-based bait.
Wolborough Fen   All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.
Yarner Wood & Trendlebere Down South Dartmoor Woods SAC No licensed activities from 1 March to 1 July to avoid bird breeding season.

All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks.

Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

The licensee must assist Natural England with the gathering of information on fox control taking place on, and in the vicinity of, this SSSI (see Notes A and B).
Yealm Estuary   No additional conditions imposed.

Notes to Annex B

General note on interpretation

Protected sites that are listed above are not necessarily part of any active operations. Active operations can and will only occur on protected sites where landowner/occupier permission has been granted.

Within the licence conditions, use of the word ‘avoid’ denotes a prohibition, i.e. it indicates that an area must be excluded from relevant activities or that activities must not be undertaken during the time period stated or in the manner described. Similarly, the word ‘restrict’ means that activities must be confined to the areas or time periods stated.

For further details on each protected site and its notified features of special interest and/or European Site qualifying features please enter the site name into the following link: https://designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/SiteSearch.aspx.

Individual notes

Note A

Natural England will inform the licensee from time to time of the information it requires. This is likely to focus on whether fox control is routinely undertaken on the relevant site and/or on areas of participating land within a few kilometres of the site. The licensee is expected to use reasonable endeavours to assist Natural England with the gathering of this information.

Note B

Natural England may form the judgment that measures should be introduced to secure the protection of species associated with this site, such as fox control, anti-predator fencing, habitat management, or buffer zones in which badger control is not undertaken. Such measures may be secured through cooperation between licensees, landowners, occupiers, and/or public bodies. If it considers it necessary to do so, Natural England may: exercise its powers under sections 28J-K of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 or regulation 20 of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017; and/or revoke and re-issue this licence with revised terms (provided that such terms will be reasonable and proportionate in all of the circumstances).

Note W

European protected species are listed in Schedule 2 (animals) and Schedule 5 (plants) of the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017. Nationally protected species are listed in Schedule 5 (animals) and Schedule 8 (plants) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as amended). Under these laws (regulations 43 and 47 of the 2017 Regulations and sections 9 and 13 of the 1981 Act), it can be an offence to:

  • deliberately capture, injure or kill any wild animal of a European protected species
  • intentionally kill, injure or take a nationally protected wild animal
  • deliberately disturb wild animals of any European protected species
  • intentionally or recklessly damage or destroy any structure or place which a nationally protected animal uses for shelter or protection, disturb such an animal while it is occupying such a structure or place, or obstruct access to any such structure or place
  • damage or destroy a breeding site or resting place of any wild animal of a European protected species
  • deliberately take or destroy the eggs of any wild animal of a European protected species
  • deliberately pick, collect, cut, uproot or destroy a wild plant of a European protected species
  • intentionally pick, uproot or destroy any nationally protected wild plant

Great crested newt, otter, dormouse, and sand lizard are European and nationally protected species.

Note Y

All birds, their eggs and nests (while in use or under construction) are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. This licence does not allow you to take or destroy such nests. Birds species listed under Schedule 1 of that Act have additional legal protection so care must be taken to avoid their disturbance during the breeding season.

Note Z

All bats and their roosts (even when not occupied by bats) are protected by the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 and by The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017. This licence does not allow you to enter or obstruct any bat roost, nor to disturb any bat whilst it is occupying a roost. Care must be taken to avoid sustained human presence near, or artificial illumination of cracks and cavities in trees and man-made structures, and of any mounted boxes.