Chipping Sodbury quarry biodiversity

 Chipping Sodbury Quarry has a Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) that aims to target and enhance the habitats and species found on site and to work with local communities. In addition the quarry also has a Habitat Management and Maintenance Plan that draws on the targets of the site BAP and lays out in detail the operations and timings required in order to achieve the plan’s aims.

Priority Habitats

Chipping Sodbury quarry has a variety of UK priority habitats and the points below identifies these habitats and how these are and will be managed for biodiversity:

• Ancient and Semi Natural Woodland- felling operations to reinstate historic coppicing regimes
• Hedgerows- phased hedge coppicing and laying along the Wickwar Road
• Streams- phased riparian coppicing along Brinsham stream to increase light levels to stream edge
• Calcareous grassland- clearance of invading scrub threatening grassland resource
• Quarry tree plantations- felling operations to thin canopy to improve age diversity and structure

Priority Species

Chipping Sodbury is fortunate to support several important species including otters and great crested newts (GCN) both of which are European protected and UK BAP priority species.Quarrying operations on site are strictly controlled and licenced where required by Natural England to ensure that otters and GCNs and their habitat are not harmed.Further Information

Further information

The quarrying industry has an important part to plan in re-shaping the landscape and enhancing biodiversity. For any further information on this site or Heidelberg Materials’s biodiversity and restoration work, or for copies of the Chipping Sodbury site BAP please contact:

Alexandra Pick- Senior Landscape Architect
Heidelberg Materials UK
The Ridge
Chipping Sodbury
Bristol, BS37 6AY

Telephone: 07970 703912
Email: alexandra.pick@heidelbergmaterials.com