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Listed
below are some examples of Access to the Countryside work undertaken recently
by Asken. Other work undertaken can be found by clicking on the links below. |
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Balancing
The Needs Of Navigation And Nature Conservation Inland
Waterways Amenity Advisory Council Asken provided expertise on stakeholder consultation methods,
as part of a team led by the Freshwater Biological Association. The project involved a review of good
practice guidance and how this can be used to help build consensus between
competing interests. |
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Access-Nature
Conservation: Best Practice Handbook English
Nature Working with Penny Anderson Associates and Footprint Ecology,
Asken prepared a Best Practice Handbook. The Handbook provides scientifically-justified guidance on
the management of public access at sites of nature conservation importance. |
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Common
Land Project English
Nature/Entec UK Ltd Entec undertook a project to consider the management options
for common land in the south of England and their effects on nature
conservation interests. Asken
was sub-contracted by Entec to provide advice on common land law and how it may
affect the formulation of management options. |
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Nature
Conservation and Recreation English
Nature/Penny Anderson Associates Ltd Little has been done to collate information about the environmental impacts of different recreational activities. PAA Ltd and Asken Ltd were commissioned to look at a range of activities and, for each activity: -
describe
the activity -
identify
trends in participation -
search
for information about impacts of the activity on the natural environment |
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Dogs,
Access and Nature Conservation English
Nature One aspect of public access that causes great concern amongst
land managers – be they farmers or nature reserve managers – is the effect of
dogs that accompany people. Asken and Penny Anderson Associates Ltd were
commissioned to research the subject and provide a more objective
understanding of the effects of dogs on nature conservation, and identify
best practice in dealing with sites where dogs are a cause for genuine
concern. The work has now been
published as ENRR 649. |
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Management
Plan for Cannock Chase SSSI Staffordshire
County Council/Penny Anderson Associates Cannock Chase is an important resource for nature conservation
and amenity. Much of it is also
common land. However, it has not
been used for agriculture for many years and grazing rights have been largely
extinguished. Staffordshire
County Council is committed to improving the management of the site,
including the re-introduction of grazing. Asken advised PAA on land management issues, ranging from
question about the common land status, through the legal classification of
stock to disease risks. |
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Remediation
of Basin Fens English
Nature/Penny Anderson Associates Basin fens are important habitats but are vulnerable to nutrient
enrichment from agricultural and other sources. Asken provided agricultural/land management expertise to a
team of environmentalists looking at ways in which nutrient enrichment can be
curtailed and the fens remediated. |
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Management
of SSSIs in Unfavourable Condition United
Utilities/Penny Anderson Associates Asken provided agricultural/land management expertise to PAA
which was assisting United Utilities bid for funds (allocated through the
AMP4 process) to enable United Utilities to encourage tenants to modify
management on upland SSSIs that are deemed to be in unfavourable
condition. UU’s bid was
successful and, as a result, it has launched the SCaMP project. |
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Review
of Land Management Incentives for Protected Areas Scottish
Natural Heritage
Asken led a project (which included the Countryside and
Community Research Unit of Cheltenham College) to consider what features of
the design of land management incentives could be most effectively used in
Scotland’s protected areas. The
review encompassed similar schemes in the British Isles and four selected
countries on mainland Europe. |
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Wildwoods
Project Asken provided specialist expertise on land use policy implications/constraints
of proposals to develop new 'wildwoods' in remote areas of Great
Britain. In a subsequent
project, Asken assisted PAA in looking at how the concept might be
implemented more widely, especially in England and Wales. |
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Integrated Land Management Plan for Catterick Training
Area Asken undertook the preparation of the final version of the
Integrated Land Management Plan for the military training area at Catterick,
North Yorkshire. The Plan comprised eight separate components: |
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The ILMP brought together and reconciled conflicting/competing
interests in the use of the training areas to provide a basis for on-going
management of the areas. |
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Environmental Impact Assessment Asken was retained to provide advice on the agricultural
aspects of an environmental impact assessment. The EIA concerned a major
transport infrastructure development on a greenfield site currently used for
arable cropping. |
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Last Update 01/08 |