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COUNTRYSIDE COUNCIL FOR WALES

CORS BODWROG SITE OF SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC INTEREST

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OPERATIONS REQUIRING THE CONSENT OF THE COUNTRYSIDE COUNCIL FOR WALES CCW UNDER SECTION 28 (4) b OF THE WILDLIFE AND COUNTRYSIDE ACT. 1981 AS SUBSTITUTED BY SCHEDULE 9 TO THE COUNTRYSIDE AND RIGHTS OF WAY ACT 2000

The operations listed below may damage the features of special interest of the SSSI. Before any of these operations are undertaken you must consult CCW.

In most cases CCW is able to consent these operations where they can be carried out in certain ways, or at specific times of year, or on certain parts of the SSSI, without damaging the features of special interest. If you wish to carry out any of these activities please contact the local office of CCW, where a Conservation Officer will be able to give you advice and where appropriate, issue a consent.

In certain circumstances it will not be possible to consent these operations, because they would damage the features of special interest. Where possible the Conservation Officer will suggest alternative ways in which you may proceed, which would enable a consent to be issued. To proceed without CCW's consent may constitute an offence. If consent is refused, or conditions are attached to it, which are not acceptable to you, you will be provided with details of how you may appeal to the Welsh Assembly Government.

CCW is empowered to enter into management agreements with owners or occupiers to safeguard or enhance the features of special interest associated with the site.

OPERATIONS LIKELY TO DAMAGE THE SPECIAL INTEREST:

• Cultivation, including ploughing, rotovating, harrowing and re-seeding.
• Any alteration in the present pattern or frequency of grazing by farm stock.
• Changes in stock feeding practice.
• Introduction. of mowing or other methods of cutting vegetation.
• Application of manure, fertilisers and lime.
• Application of pesticides, including herbicides (weedkillers).
• Dumping, spreading or discharge of any materials.
• Burning of vegetation.
• The deliberate introduction of any wild or domestic animal*, plant or seed.
• The killing or removal of any invertebrate.
• The destruction, removal or pruning of any plant or plant remains, including tree, shrub, herb, hedge, moss, lichen or fungus.
• Tree planting, including afforestation.
• Modification of drainage, including the use of mole, tile, tunnel or other artificial drains.
• Modification to rivers, streams,. ditches and drains including their banks and beds, by re-alignment, re-grading, dredging or cleaning.
• Management of aquatic and bank vegetation.
• Changes in the present utilisation of water, including storage, the raising of water levels, irrigation and abstraction from existing water bodies and through boreholes.
• Infilling of ditches, drains, ponds, pools, marshes or peat cuttings.
• Introduction of or changes in freshwater fishery management including use of fish cages.
• Extraction or minerals, including peat, sand and gravel, topsoil and sub-soil.
• Construction, removal or destruction of roads, tracks, walls, fences, hard-stands, banks, ditches or other earthworks.
• Storage of materials.
• Erection of permanent or temporary structures, or the undertaking of engineering works, including the laying, maintenance or removal of pipelines and cables.
• Use of vehicles likely to damage the fen vegetation or craft likely to disturb birds.
• Recreational activities within the control of the owner or occupier likely to damage the fen vegetation or to disturb birds.
• Changes in game and waterfowl management including shooting levels.