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COUNTRYSIDE COUNCIL FOR WALES

NEWBOROUGH WARREN - YNYS LLANDDWYN SITE OF SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC INTEREST

Notification date: 9 March 1995

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.
• Introduction of grazing
• Any alteration in the present pattern or frequency of grazing by farm stock.
• Introduction of supplementary stock feeding
• Introduction of mowing or other methods of cutting vegetation.
• Any alteration in the present pattern or frequency of mowing or cutting vegetation.
• Application of manure, fertilisers or 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 wild animal, including pests, except non-commercial cockling or non-commercial bait digging.
• The destruction, removal or pruning of any plant or plant remains, including tree, shrub, herb, moss, lichen, fungus, leafmould or turf.
• Tree planting, including afforestation.
• Changes in woodland management, including clear and selective felling, thinning, coppicing, modification of the stand or underwood and changes in species composition.
• Modification of drainage, including the use of mole, tile, tunnel or other artificial drains.
• Modification to rivers, streams, ditches, or drains including their banks and beds, by re-alignment, regrading, dredging or cleaning.
• Management of aquatic and bank vegetation.
• Changes in the present utilisation of water, including storage, the raising or lowering of water levels and water tables, irrigation and abstraction from existing water bodies and through boreholes,
• Infilling of ditches, drains, ponds, pools, marshes including dune slacks or pits.
• Introduction of, or changes in, freshwater fishery management, including the use of fish cages.
• Introduction of or changes in coastal fishery management, including use of fish cages.
• Reclamation of land from sea, estuary or marsh.
• Erection of sea defences or coast protection works.
• Extraction of minerals, including peat, shingle, sand and gravel, topsoil or sub-soil.
• Construction, removal or destruction of roads, tracks, walls, fences, hard stands, banks, ditches or other earthworks.
• Storage of materials on or against rock faces or outcrops or in areas likely to damage vegetation and species of conservation importance.
• Erection of permanent or temporary structures, or the undertaking of engineering works, including drilling or the laying, maintenance or removal of pipelines and cables.
• Modification of natural or man-made features, including rocks and sand dunes by clearance of boulders, large stones, or sand and battering, buttressing or grading rock faces or outcrops.
• Use of vehicles or craft likely to damage the sand dunes, foreshore and other intertidal areas or disturb breeding birds and/or roosting or feeding wildfowl and waders.
• Recreational activities within the control of the Owner or Occupier likely to damage vegetation, disturb birds or cause erosion to foreshore, dunes and dune slacks.
• Changes in game and waterfowl management.
• Introduction of hunting practice.