Correspondence

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

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 Wiltshire.

SSSI name	European Designated Site name (where applicable)	Licence condition
Acres Farm Meadow		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Baverstock Juniper Bank SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Bencroft Hill 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.
Bentley Wood SSSI		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.
Bincknoll Dip Woods		All vehicles must be restricted to existing surfaced tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint within the woodland areas of the SSSI only and ideally in the conifer area. Traps should only be dug in, on boundary edges in these areas, such as hedgerows.
Blackmoor Copse SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Botley Down SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Bowerchalke Downs		No 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.
Box Farm Meadows		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Box Mine SSSI	Bath & Bradford on Avon Bats SAC	No access within 20m of any entrance to a cave, mine, shaft or adit.
Bracknell Croft SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Bradley Woods		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Bratton Downs		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Brickworth Down and Dean Hill SSSI		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.
Brimsdown Hill		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Britford Water Meadows SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Burcombe Down SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or on improved/ semi-improved grassland/scrub areas.
Burderop Wood SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of rhododendron or conifer plantation.
Calstone and Cherhill Downs		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Camp Down SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or on improved/ semi-improved grassland/scrub areas.
Charnage Down Chalk Pit		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Chickengrove Bottom		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Chilmark Quarries	Chilmark Quarries SAC	Exclude SSSI and no access to within 20m of the fenced site boundary.
Chilton Foliat Meadows SSSI	Kennet & Lambourn Floodplain SAC	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. Avoid wet woodland areas containing salix cinerea - Galium palustre woodland (grey willow). Except on existing tracks, no vehicle use nor placing traps alongside any watercourses or waterbodies, nor within any wet area, fen, bog or mire. 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).
Clattinger Farm	North Meadow & Clattinger Farm SAC	Exclude site
Clearbury Down SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or on improved/ semi-improved grassland/scrub areas.
Cley Hill		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or on improved/ semi-improved grassland/scrub areas.
Cloatley 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.
Cloatley Manor 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.
Clout’s Wood SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of rhododendron or conifer plantation.
Coate Water SSSI		Avoid woodland areas. 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. 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).
Cockey Down SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or on improved/ semi-improved grassland/scrub areas.
Colerne Park and Monk’s Wood SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of rhododendron or conifer plantation.
Corsham Railway Cutting SSSI		No additional conditions imposed
Cotswold Water Park		No additional conditions imposed
Cranborne Chase		No 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).
Dank’s Down and Truckle Hill SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Dead Maid Quarry		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Dinton Quarry		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Dinton Railway Cutting		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. No digging in of traps in the area of geological features
Distillery 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.
East Harnham Meadows SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Ebsbury Down SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Elmlea 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.
Emmett Hill 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.
Figsbury Ring SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or on improved/ semi-improved grassland/scrub areas.
Fonthill Grottoes		Exclude SSSI and no access to within 20m of the folly entrances.
Fyfield Down SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. 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.
Gallows Hill		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Goldborough 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.
Great Cheverell Hill SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or on improved/ semi-improved grassland/scrub areas.
Great Quarry, Swindon SSSI		No additional conditions imposed
Great Yews SSSI	Great Yews SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing surfaced tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Gripwood Quarry SSSI		No additional conditions imposed
Gutch Common		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Ham Hill. SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Hang Wood		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Harries Ground, Rodbourne		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Haydon Meadow SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Heath Hill 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.
Homington and Coombe Bissett Downs SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or on improved/ semi-improved grassland/scrub areas.
Honeybrook Farm SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Inwood, Warleigh SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Jones’s Mill SSSI	River Avon SAC	Avoid woodland areas. No activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. No vehicle use within 5m of any watercourse, except on existing tracks. Except on existing tracks, no vehicle use nor placing traps alongside any watercourses or waterbodies, nor within any wet area, fen, bog, mire or swamp. 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).
Kellaways - West Tytherton, River Avon		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks when crossing streams. No digging in of traps in the area of geological features
Kemble Railway Cuttings		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain SSSI	Kennet & Lambourn Floodplain SAC	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.
King’s Play Hill		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or improved / semi-improved grassland / scrub areas.
Knapp and Barnett’s Downs SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or on improved/ semi-improved grassland/scrub areas.
Knighton Downs & Wood SSSI		No 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.
Lady Down Quarry		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Landford Bog SSSI	The New Forest SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Landford Heath SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Except on existing tracks, no vehicle use nor placing traps alongside any watercourses or waterbodies, nor within any wet area, fen, bog or mire.
Langley Wood and Homan’s Copse SSSI	The New Forest SAC	No activities from 1 March to 31 July to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to surfaced 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.
Little Grubbins Meadow SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or on improved/ semi-improved grassland/scrub areas.
Long Knoll		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Longleat Woods		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Loosehanger Copse and Meadows SSSI	The New Forest 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).
Lower Coombe and Ferne Brook Meadows		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Lower Woodford Water Meadows SSSI	River Avon SAC	No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. No vehicle use within 5m of any watercourse, except on existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay until after hay cut, mid-July. Except on existing tracks, no vehicle use nor placing traps alongside any watercourses or waterbodies, nor within any wet area, fen, bog, mire or swamp. 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).
Midford Valley Woods		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of rhododendron or conifer plantation. Spread footfall over an area/avoid excessive footfall along the same routes when off the paths; no new paths to be created as a result of licensed activities.
Minchinhampton Common		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Morgan’s Hill		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
North Meadow, Cricklade	North Meadow & Clattinger Farm SAC	Exclude site
Odstock Down SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or on improved/ semi-improved grassland/scrub areas.
Okus Quarry SSSI		No additional conditions imposed
Old Town Railway Cutting, Swindon SSSI		No additional conditions imposed
Out Woods SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of rhododendron or conifer plantation.
Parsonage Down	Salisbury Plain SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Pewsey Downs	Pewsey Downs SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub more than 250 metres from a pond.
Picket and Clanger Wood SSSI		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. 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. 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).
Piggledene SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing surfaced tracks
Pike Corner		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Pincombe Down		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Porton Down SSSI	Porton Down SPA; Salisbury Plain SAC	No activities from 1 March to 20 September to avoid bird breeding season. Avoid all vehicle use, shooting and trapping activities in woodland areas. Activities conducted under this licence must comply with existing legal obligations described in Note Y. All vehicles must be restricted to existing surfaced 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. 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).
Porton Meadows SSSI	River Avon SAC	No vehicle use within 5m of any watercourse, except on existing tracks. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Except on existing tracks, no vehicle use nor placing traps alongside any watercourses or waterbodies, nor within any wet area, fen, bog, mire or swamp.
Prescombe Down	Prescombe Down SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Rack Hill SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Ravensroost Wood		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Restrop Farm and Brockhurst Wood		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
River Avon System	River Avon SAC	No activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. No vehicle use within 5m of any watercourse, except on existing tracks. Except on existing tracks, no vehicle use nor placing traps alongside any watercourses or waterbodies, nor within any wet area, fen, bog, mire or swamp. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub. 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 Kennet SSSI		No vehicle use within 5m of any watercourse, except on existing tracks.
River Till SSSI	River Avon SAC	No vehicle use within 5m of any watercourse, except on existing tracks. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Except on existing tracks, no vehicle use nor placing traps alongside any watercourses or waterbodies, nor within any wet area, fen, bog, mire or swamp.
Rotherley Downs		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Roundway Down and Covert		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Salisbury Plain	Salisbury Plain SAC; Salisbury Plain SPA	No licensed activities 1 March to 20 September inclusive. This also applies within an area bounded by the A36 to the south and by the A303 to the north and by a project area boundary to the east. Activities conducted under this licence must comply with existing legal obligations described in Note Y. Before commencing licensed activities each season, operators must confirm with the owner/occupier the location of any communal roost locations supporting significant numbers of hen harrier. Except on existing roads and tracks, there shall be no access within 500 metres of any such locations from 1 November to 30 April, inclusive. 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).
Savernake Forest SSSI		Avoid woodland areas. 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. Any decaying wood located existing sett footprint is to be left in situ if possible. If decaying wood must be moved it should be moved no further than is necessary. 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).
Scratchbury & Cotley Hills		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.
Seend Cleeve Quarry SSSI		No additional conditions imposed
Seend Ironstone Quarry and Road Cutting SSSI		No additional conditions imposed
Silbury Hill		No licensed activities from 1 March to 31 August to avoid bird breeding season. All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. No trapping on the site.
Spye Park SSSI		Avoid woodland areas. 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.
Stanton St. Quintin Quarry and Motorway Cutting		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Starveall and Stony Down		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Steeple Ashton SSSI		No additional conditions imposed
Steeple Langford Down		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Stert Brook Exposure SSSI		No additional conditions imposed
Stockton Wood and Down		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Stoke Common 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.
Stratford Toney Down SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or on improved/ semi-improved grassland/scrub areas.
Sutton Lane 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.
Teffont Evias Quarry / Lane Cutting		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
The Coombs, Hinton Parva SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or on improved/ semi-improved grassland/scrub areas.
Throope Down SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or on improved/ semi-improved grassland/scrub areas.
Tytherington Down		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Upper Chicksgrove Quarry		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Upper Waterhay Meadow		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Upton Cow Down		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or on improved/ semi-improved grassland/scrub areas.
Veizey’s Quarry, Tetbury		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
West Harnham Chalk Pit SSSI		No additional conditions imposed
West Yatton Down SSSI		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Westbury Ironstone Quarry		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint or areas of scrub.
Whiteparish Common SSSI	The New Forest SAC	All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Whitesheet Hill		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Wildmoorway 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.
Win Green Down		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint. Delay access until after hay cut, mid-July.
Winklebury Hill		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Winsley Mines	Bath & Bradford on Avon Bats SAC	Exclude site
Wootton Bassett Mud Spring		Exclude site
Wylye and Church Dean Downs		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.
Yarnbury Castle		All vehicles must be restricted to existing tracks. Limit location of traps to existing sett footprint.

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.