CYNGOR CEFN GWLAD CYMRU

COUNTRYSIDE COUNCIL FOR WALES

TY CROES SITE OF SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC INTEREST

Notification date: 28 March 2002

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.
• Grazing, the introduction of grazing and alterations to the grazing regime (including type of stock, intensity or seasonal pattern of grazing).
• Supplementary stock feeding.
• Mowing or cutting vegetation.
• Application of manure, slurry, silage liquor, fertilisers and lime.
• Application of pesticides, including herbicides, (weedkillers).
• Dumping, spreading or discharging of any materials.
• Burning and alterations to the pattern or frequency of burnings.
• Release into the site of any wild, feral, captive-bred or domestic animal*, plant, seed or micro-organism and any genetically modified organism.
• Killing, injuring, taking or removal of any wild animal *, or the eggs/nests of any wild animal or the disturbing, taking, damaging or destroying of any wild animal in its place of shelter excluding pest control and the hunting, shooting and/or taking of game or waterfowl.
• Destruction, displacement, removal or cutting of any plant or plant remains, including tree, shrub, herb, hedge, dead or decaying wood, moss, lichen, fungus, leaf-mould, turf or peat.
• Tree planting.
• Drainage including moor-gripping, the use of mole, tile, tunnel or other artificial drains.
• Modification to the structure of water courses including springs or drains, including their banks and beds, by re-alignment, regrading, damming or dredging.
• Management of aquatic and bank vegetation for drainage purposes.
• Infilling or digging of ditches, drains, ponds, pools, marshes, quarries or pits.
• Erection and repair of sea defences or coast protection works, including cliff or landslip drainage or stabilisation measures.
• Extraction of minerals including peat, shingle, hard rock, sand and gravel, topsoil or subsoil.
• Destruction, construction, removal, rerouting, or regrading of roads, tracks, walls, fences, hardstands, banks, ditches or other earthworks, including soil and rock exposures.
• Storage of materials (e.g. silage, building material, rubble etc).
• Erection of permanent or temporary structures or the undertaking of engineering works, including drilling or the laying, maintenance or removal of pipelines and cables, above or below ground.
• Modification of natural or man-made features (including cave entrances) and clearance of boulders, large stones, loose rock and the infilling of pits.
• Use of vehicles or craft.
• Recreational activities.
• Introduction of game or waterfowl management and alterations to game and waterfowl management and hunting practice.