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W
Wisley
y Airfield:
Sitte of Natu
ure Cons
servation
n Importa
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NCI) Rep
port

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Co
ontents
Quaality contro ol ................................. ................................................................................... 6
Site
e descriptio on ............................... ................................................................................... 7
Previous reas son for sele ection ........ ................................................................................... 7
Ownership......................................... ................................................................................... 8
Habbitat descriiption and target note es ................................................................................ 9
Othher non-pla ant species s ................. ................................................................................. 15
Asssessment of o Wisley AirfieldA 2007 7 reasons for SNCI selection ussing 2008
Guidelines forr Surrey...................... ................................................................................. 16
Tabble 1: Summ mary Plant Conservattion Status s ............................................................. 16
Asssessment of o Wisley AirfieldA aga ainst SNCI selections using
u 2008 Guidelines s for
Surrrey ................................................ ................................................................................. 19
Genneral guide elines .......................... ................................................................................. 23
Site
e condition n .................................. ................................................................................. 24
Bouundaries ....................................... ................................................................................. 24
Signs of dama age ............................. ................................................................................. 25
Currrent site managemen
m nt ............... ................................................................................. 25
Mannagement advice a ........................ ................................................................................. 25
Potential gran nt aid ........................... ................................................................................. 27
Refferences / Bibliograph
B hy .............. ................................................................................. 27
Higher plant liist ............................... ................................................................................. 29
Tabble 2: Plantt Species Recorded R n 2016 ...................................................................... 30
in
Tabble 3: All Re ecorded Plants with C Conservatiion Status ............................................. 39
Apppendix 1: Habitat
H guid delines...... ................................................................................. 48
Apppendix 2: Species
S guiidelines .... ................................................................................. 59
Apppendix 3: General
G guiidelines .... ................................................................................. 65

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Summary
In 2
2007 the Wisley
W Airfiield SNCI reasons fo or selectionn were reccorded as: – ‘This
site
e is selectted for its importancce for rep ptiles, plannts and b birds. 9 notable
Surrrey plant species
s ha
ave been rerecorded on n the site. In additioon 3 RSPB
B red list
bird
ds speciess and 7 RS SPB ambe er list birds
s species have
h beenn recorded
d on the
site
e. This site
s has ana exceptio onal popu ulation of Grass Snnakes as well as
suppporting go ood popullations of Slow-worm ms, Comm mon Lizard rds and Common
C
Froogs.’

Thee following provides a summaryy of the eva aluation off the site ass surveyed
d in
20116 against the SNCI selection
s ccriteria. Fo
or informatiion on the final decis
sion of
the Surrey Loocal Sites Partnership
P p (LSP), please see the
t LSP m inutes of 29 2 th
Marrch 2017.

Assessmen nt of Wis
sley Airfiield 2007
7 reasons
s for SNC
CI selecttion
usiing 2008
8 Guidelin
nes for SSurrey

24 Vascular Plants a) Supports s one or more


m spec
cies includ
ded in the
e latest
Nattional Red
d Data Listt for plants
s.

 Criteria met, for species


s found with
w a scatttered disstribution across
Wisleyy Airfield and
a also S
Snakes Fie
eld.

24 Vascular Plants d)d Supporrts specie es identiffied by S


Surrey Bo
otanical
ciety as ra
Soc are and no
otable with
hin Surrey
y.

 Criteria met, for species found sc


cattered distributio
d n across Wisley
Airfield
d and also
o Snakes F
Field.

20 R
Reptiles b.
b Populatio
ons of 3 orr more natiive reptile species.

 Criteria met, rep


ptile intere
est is conffined to th
he western
n part of the
t site
and the northernn boundarry.

20 Reptiles d. Sites supporting


s an assemmblage of species sscoring at least 4
poin
nts using the scorin NCI Guidellines (Gibbbs, 2008) can be
ng system in the SN
con
nsidered fo
or selection
n.

 Criteria met, rep


ptile intere
est is conffined to th
he western
n part of the
t site
and the northernn boundarry.

Bird
ds

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 Criteria not mett, based o


on recent surveys supplied
s bby GBC, thet site
does not
n curren ntly meet tthe curren
nt SNCI gu
uidelines ffor birds (Gibbs,
2008), see Appe
endix 2 forr more info
ormation.

Assessmen nt of add
ditional fe
eatures of
o Wisleyy Airfield
d against
SN
NCI selec
ction usin
ng 2008 G Guidelin
nes for Surrey

1WWoodland e. Wet wo
oodland fa
alling withiin NVC typ
pes W1, W
W2, W4c, W5,
W W6
and
d W7.

 Criteria met for Stratford Bridge Wood.

4 NNeutral Grassland b. Grasslland sites s, which support


s a high dive ersity of
speecies typica
al of grasssland of coonservatioon interest in Surrey.. As a gu uideline,
site
e which suppport 15 or more of tthe species listed in Table 1 off the Guida ance for
the Selectionn of Sites of Nature e Conserv vation Importance (S SNCIs) in Surrey
(Gibbbs, 2008)), including
g at least 2 of the sp
pecies in bold
b are likkely to be of
o SNCI
quaality.

 Criteria met for Snakes Fiield.


 Criteria may be met withh a restricted distrib
bution in the weste
ern end
of the runway.

8 S
Standing Open Wa ater c) Wa ater bodies or clusters of waater bodies
s which
sup
pport a significant population
n of a sp pecies as discussedd in the species
guid
dance.

 Criteria met for Pond 3.

12 O
Open Mossaic Habitats on Pre eviously Developed
D d Land.
a) O
Open Mosaaic habitat sites wherre;
 6 or moore of the characteris
c stic feature
es are foun
nd
 form paart of a wid
der compleex of similaar areas, prroviding lo ng term ha
abitat
opportu
unity
 There is a signific
cant invert ebrate asssemblage

 Criteria met for the weste


ern part off the site.

13 Arable a, all sites which


w meeet the crite
eria for Im
mportant Arrable Plant Areas
(IAP
PA), which
h are not co
overed by other desig
gnations.

 Criteria is met as
a the IAPA A score would
w sugg
gest that WWisley Airrfield is
of UKK / Countty Importtance. The T majorrity of th e records s have
restric
cted, scatttered disttribution from
f the arable
a fie lds, runw
way and
westerrn end of the
t site.

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18 Mammals Bats c. Foraging


F sittes not ass
sociated directly withh roosts sh
hould be
con
nsidered fo
or selection
n if more thhan 5 species are reegularly reecorded the ere or if
use
ed by any Annex
A II sp
pecies.

 This suggests
s that the criteria has been met. Thee main arreas of
interes
st for bats
s are the w
western en
nd and alo
ong the so
outhern ed
dge.

19 Amphibia
ans c. Supports
S p
populations
s of four or more native am
mphibian
spe
ecies.

Critteria met for


f Pond 3.
3

Thee site maay also meet


m the SNCI se
election guideline
g es underr the
following criteria
c
22 Invertebrattes.

 Furthe
er inverteb
brate surv
vey work is
i recommmended ovver severa al days
during
g a full season b by an ex xperience
ed entom ologist to o fully
ascertain the co
onservatio
on status for
f Wisleyy Airfield fo
or invertebrates.

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Sitte Name: Wisley


W Airfield
Reccorder Number: 155043 (and 15051 & 770035)
SLSSP Ref: GU127
G
Grid Ref: TQ 076 575 5
Parrish: Ockham
O
Waard: Loovelace
Are
ea of SNCII: 117.51ha
Pre
evious SNCCI surveys
s: 144th, 18th, 19
9th & 21st JJuly 2006, Claire
Gibbs
G
Datte of curre
ent survey
y: 200th May, 9th June, 222nd June & 13th
Ju
uly 2016
Surrveyors: Is
sobel Girva an SWT *

Qu
uality con
ntrol
Thee informatio on and data which h has been prepared
p and provideed is true and
a has
beeen prepare ed and pro ovided in aaccordancee with the ‘Guidelinees for Prelliminary
Ecoological Ap ppraisal’ an
nd ‘Code oof Professio
onal Conduuct’ issuedd by the Ch hartered
Insttitute of Eccology andd Environm mental Mannagement (CIEEM). We confirm that
the opinions expressed
e are our tru
ue and professional bona
b fide oopinions.

Wiisley Airfie
eld SNCI Report
R v1 .2 (21 Julyy 2017) Datee
Su
urvey Ecolo ogist Isob
bel Girvan B
BSc (Hons) MCIEEM
M Surveey dates 20th May,
9th Juune, 22nd June & 13th
July 22016
Re
eport Autho
or Isob
bel Girvan B
BSc (Hons) MC
CIEEM Date passed on for
authoorisation 14//12/2016
Revissed 22/06/2017
Ap
pproved byy Claire Gibbs BS
Sc (Hons) MSc MCIEEM Date authorised as
compplete 12/01/2 2017
Authoorised as coomplete
Dan
nial Winchesster BSc (Hons) MCIEEM for ammended rep port v1.2
21/077/2017

*The e following survey was carried o ut by SWT on behalf of Guildfordd Borough Council.
At tthe requestt of the land owner th e SWT surrveyor was accompannied by one e of their
Ecoological Con nsultants, Andy
A Cross of EPR. However,
H this report reepresents th
he views
of S
SWT.

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Sitte description
Wissley Airfieldd Site of Nature
N Connservation Importanc ce (SNCI) is located at Elm
Corrner, Ockham, south of the A3 . Immedia ately to the
e north liess the Ockham and
Wissley Comm mon Site off Special S
Scientific In
nterest (SSSSI) whichh forms parrt of the
Thaames Basin Heaths Special Prrotection Area A (SPA A). Other bboundaries s of the
site
e consist off woodland d (some ow
wned by Su urrey Wildlife Trust) aand farmla
and with
a smmall collecction of hou
uses south of Elm Laane.

Thee survey site


s comprises a disu used airfie
eld covering 123.1haa. A long derelict
tarm
mac runwa ay strip runns though tthe centre of the site
e from easst to west, there is
also
o a large area
a of concrete to tthe north of
o the site. A numbber of plants have
inva
aded the taarmac and d runway aareas. Muc and surrouunding the runway
ch of the la
connsists of arable
a field
ds. In thee north of the site lies Snakees Field, a semi-
impproved grasssland (Gib bbs, 2006)).

Thee site sits on Higher Terrace geology, with Bags shot Beds to the no orth and
Allu
uvium runn ning along the Stratfford Brook
k. This giv
ves rise too a River Terrace
T
called Hucklesbrook, a loamy,
l sanndy soil.

Thee survey arrea for this


s report (se
ee Figure 1) includes the currennt Wisley Airfield
A
SNC CI (includin
ng Snakes s Field SWT T) (see Figgure 2) as well as ann additionall
secction of wooodland to the
t south o of the site called
c Stra
atford Bridgge Wood, as
a this
is w
within the la
and ownership.

Thee survey to ook place over fourr days and d although the wholee of the site
s was
visitted, additio
onal time and effort was focused on the e western section, non visits
werre made affter July as s site cond
ditions mea
ant that furrther surveeys would be sub-
optiimal. As such,
s altho
ough everyy effort wa
as made to o locate alll key and historic
speecies, it has
h not be een possiible to make a de efinitive staatement on
o their
presence/ abssence.

Pre
evious re
eason fo
or selecti on
Wissley Airfield
d was orig ginally idenntified as a candidate SNCI inn 1995 ba ased on
exissting inform
mation froom Surreyy Flora Co ommittee (now
( knowwn as the Surrey
Bottanical Socciety), at th
hat time it was not clear
c who the
t ownerss of the site were
andd as such non formal SNCI
S surveey took plaace. Howe ever, the S
SNCI guide elines in
use
e at the time did alloww for sites tto be conssidered usin
ng relevannt information from
a suuitable alte
ernative so
ource, in this case thee local reco
ording grouup.

As such the western end e of the site (see Figure 2) was conssidered ba ased on
ormation submitted by
info b the Surrrey Flora Committe ee and waas selected d as an
SNC CI on 31st October 1996.
1 Thee reason fo
or selection at that tiime was given
g as
‘Reecommende ed by JE ES (Joyce Smith – Surrey Fllora Comm mittee) forr Heath
Cud dweed, Yeellow Bartssia, Bee Orrchid, Annual Knawe el and Knootted Clove er, all of
whiich are rare
e in Surrey
y.’

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In 2
2005 the wider parrt of Wisle ey Airfield, including
g SWT Snnakes Field, was
proposed and d selected based on informatioon providedd by Surreey Amphibian and
Repptile Group
p (SARG) for
f ‘its exce
eptional poopulations of reptiless and amph
hibians.’
Seee Figure 2.

Theen in 2006 6 SWT were speciffically aske ed by Guildford Boorough Council to


inve
estigate thee nature coonservatioon interest of a number of sites within/adjaacent to
Wissley Airfield
d. As a reesult furthe
er changes s to the SNNCI bounddaries were made
(seee Figure 2)
2 and ado opted in 20 007. At th he reason for selectiion was
his time th
give
en as ‘Thiss site is se
elected forr its importtance for reptiles,
r plaants and birds.
b 9
notaable Surreey plant spe
ecies have e been recorded on thet site. Inn addition 3 RSPB
red
d list bird sp
pecies andd 7 RSPB amber listt bird spec cies have bbeen recorrded on
the site. Thiis site has s an excep ptional poppulation off Grass SnSnakes as well as
suppporting go ood popullations of Slow-worm ms, Comm mon Lizard rds and Common
C
Fro
ogs.’

akes as its starting po


Thiss report ta oint the mo
ost recent site bounddary / reas
sons for
sele
ection app proved by the Loca al Site Partnership (LSP) in 2007. Th he LSP
recoognises thhat as a result thesse bounda aries may differ fro m those formally
f
inco
orporated into
i local plans
p by the relevant local authority.

In a
addition Stratford Brid
dge Wood was surve eyed separrately from
m Wisley Airfield in
20007 for the SNCI
S proje
ect, howev er it was not
n selected by the LLSP at the time for
the following reason ‘Itt was deciided that the t site wa
as not of ssufficient value
v to
sele
ect as SNC CI. Howev ver it is no ted that this site mayy have goood potentia al if well
man naged.’ An extract frrom the re levant section of the 2006 SWT T SNCI Re eport for
Straatford Brid
dge Wood dland (Gib bbs, 2006)), Nature Conservattion Intere est and
Prootected Spe ecies Pote
ential howe ever stated d that ‘Wet woodlandd is not a common
c
habbitat in Surrrey and th
herefore thhis site is a valuable example oof that hab bitat.’ It
shoould also be
b noted th hat LSP w ere consid dering the ecologicall value of this
t site
theyy were using the 199 98 Selectio an the updaated current 2008
on Criteria,, rather tha
SNC CI Guidelinnes.

In NNovemberr 2007, a report on n the SNC CI review process w was publisshed by


Planning Policcy Team ata Guildford
d Borough Council ass part of Loocal Development
Framework. This docu ument inc luded a re
eview of all
a the worrk that ha ad been
carrried out over a fourr year perriod togeth
her with a descriptioon of all changes
c
agreed by thee Sites of Nature
N Connservation Liaison Grroup (SNCCLG) (prede ecessor
of L
LSP) and updated
u bo
oundary mmaps for eaach site. A copy of thhis docum
ment can
be ddownloadeed from thee Guildford
d Borough Council we ebsite.

Ow
wnership
p
The
e site is ow
wned by a private
p land
downer.

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Habitat des
scription
n and targ
get notes
s
Thrroughout th he descripttions, plan
nts are refe
erred to by
y their com
mmon name es. For
refe
erence the full specie
es list in Ta
able 2 at th
he end of the report l ists both common
c
andd scientific names.

Bro
oad-leaved d Semi-natu ural Woodlland
Thiss habitat tyype is show
wn in gree
en on Figure 1. Therre are seveeral linear lines of
broad-leaved woodland mainly on n the boun
ndary edge
es of the a irfield and has for
the most part, naturally colonised (for example west of Elm Cornner and alo ong Old
Lanne).

In ssome area as the wo oodland is part of an


a overspilll of wooddland immediately
adja
acent to thhe site such as the n orthern an
nd western edges of Snakes Fiield and
Hunnts Copse e, by Hatchford End d. Species s here inc
clude frequuent Pedu unculate
Oakk, Silver Birch
B with occasiona
al Sweet Chestnut, Hazel, E Elder, Holly
y, Goat
Willlow, Rustyy Willow, Hawthorn
H and rare Rowan. The T field layer is ge
enerally
sca
ant with loccally freque
ent Bracken
n and rare Wood Sag ge and pattches of Brramble.

Along the souuthern edgge of Snakkes Field th


here is a wide
w band of young planted
wooodland reppresenting a similar ccompositio
on to the nearby
n wooodlands in
ncluding
Peddunculate Oak and Hawthorn
H woodland with Silveer Birch, R
Rowan, Ha awthorn,
Hazzel, Dogwoood and thhickets of Bramble. The Hatc ch Lane (ppath) that forms
f a
sepparation be
etween the
e two Snakkes Field fields have mature plaanted treees either
side
e forming a dense caanopy and acting as woodland.. Again Peedunculate e Oak is
present with Common Lime, Ho ornbeam, Beech, Hawthorn, Rowan an nd Dog
Rosse.

Thee woodlan nd band westw of EElm Corner is a well w estabblished wooodland


presenting a full
f canopy y with a si milar rang
ge of species to that described above,
Peddunculate Oak being g the mostt frequent with a varried field laayer. Bra
acken is
loca
ally freque
ent with Bramble
B i n the und derscrub, with frequuent Ench hanter’s
Nightshade and
a occas
sional Cleaavers, Gro ound-ivy and
a Male Fern. Ra are are
Commmon Ne ettle, Wo ood Aven ns, Broad d-leaved Helleborin e, Broad d-leaved
Willlowherb, Common
C Figwort, Red d Currant, Bluebell and
a Stinkinng Iris.

Norrth of the western


w en
nd of the rrunway is a mosaic of woodlannd, maturee scrub,
devveloping sccrub with patches off Bracken. Those areas
a marrked as ill--defined
wooodland com mprising a scruffy mi x of Pedun
nculate Oa
ak and Haw
wthorn with h Elder,
Hazzel, Blackth
horn, Sycaamore, Hol ly, Dog Roose and de
ense Brambble.

Awwider band d of wet wo oodland iss present on


o the south westernn edge of the site
called Stratford Bridge Wood. Allong the northern ed dge next too the arablle fields
and
d southern edge the e woodland d is higherr and the drier condditions provide an
opp
portunity foor species such as Sycamore, Peduncu ulate Oak, English Elm
E and
Ashh with Eld der, oversttood Haze el coppice, Hawthorrn and Fieeld Maple. Hazel
cop
ppice is loccally abund
dant on the
e boundary y bank.

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Thiss woodlan nd has a meanderin


m ng stream winding th hrough thee woodlan nd floor.
The e damp co onditions allow
a an A
Alder woood to prevail with mmaiden and d multi-
stem mmed co oppice Ald der (som e veteran n) and an a anciennt stream bank.
Acccompanying the Alder are rarre Horse-c chestnut (wwith one mmature ex xample),
Norrway Maple e, Holly, Field Maple
e, Grey Willlow and Rusty
R Willow
w. The fieeld layer
is vvaried with typical wooodland speecies such
h as freque
ent Bluebellls and occ
casional
Gre eater Stitch
hwort, Brac cken, Hed ge Wound dwort, Pendulous Seedge, False e Wood
Broome, Remo ote Sedge e, Red Ca ampion, Bugle, Ench hanter’s N
Nightshade e, Small
Balssam, Gian nt Fescue,, Wood Do ock, Beard
ded Couch, Hairy B Brome and d Wood
Spu urge. Dam mp areas area denote ed by the presence
p of
o Commoon Reed, Hemlock
H
Water Dropwo ort, Comm mon Marsh Bedstraw, Creeping Buttercupp, Marsh Horsetail
H
and d Water Mint
M in flush h lines an d seepagees. The invasive sppecies Him malayan
Balssam was noted here and Ja apanese Knotweed
K has beenn recorded d in the
wesstern end ofo the wood dland by p
previous su
urveys.

Dennse Scrub
Thiss habitat tyype is show
wn as crosss hatched d green lines on Figuure 1 and is
i found
sca
attered acro oss the site
e. The foll owing thre
ee areas arre given ass examples
s.

West of the western


w end of the runway iss a complex mix of Gorse, Bramble,
B
Hemmlock and Bracken scrub minngled with tall rudera
al vegetatiion and sc
cattered
scru
ub.

On the north edge of thhe eastern part of Sn


nakes Field
d there is a woodland scrub
edg
ge of Rustyy Willow, Blackthorn,
B , Bracken and Bramb ble with taall vegetatio
on such
as C
Common Nettle.
N

Scrrub edge north of the


e wet depreession (seee TN11 on Figure 1) with Pedu unculate
Oakk, Blacktho
orn, Ash, Elder,
E Silve
er Birch and
d locally ab
bundant Buutterfly-bus
sh.

Sca
attered Scrrub
Thiss is shown
n as green crosses o
on Figure 1. Scattere
ed scrub iss found acrross the
edg
ges of the site
s as a mix
m with othher habitats
s.

Theere are paatches of scattered


s sscrub on Snakes
S eld such aas Hawthorn, Dog
Fie
Rosse and Bramble bus shes as w well as you
ung oaks. Scatteredd and dev veloping
scru
ub is also concentraated close to Mount Pleasant Cottages such as Bramble
B
d towards the western end of the runwa
and ay with sca
attered scrrub such as
a Grey
Willlow, Brambble and Do
og Rose.

Bro
oad-leaved d Scattered
d Trees
The
ese are shown as green dotts on Figu ure 1. There are several areas of
sca
attered tree
es, mainly confined
c o the boundary edges.
to

Exaamples incclude a lin ure Pedunculate Oak near eaast of Hatc


ne of matu ch End,
somme more near
n Hyde Lane to tthe south of the site
e. There i s one parrticularly
matture decayying Pedunnculate Oa
ak approacching Stratford Bridgge Wood, marked
at T
Target Note
e 10.

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Theere are sevveral scatte


ered trees in Snakes
s Field inclu
uding a sm
mall stand of
o Silver
Bircch and you
ung Pedunculate Oakk.

Sem
mi-improveed Neutral Grassland d
Sho
own in light orange and labelled
d SI on Fig
gure 1.

The
ere is one area of grassland
g ttowards th
he western n end, nort
rth of the runway.
r
Thiss supportts abunda ant Yorksh hire-fog and Annua al Meadow w-grass, frequent
f
Commmon Bird d’s-foot Trrefoil, Creeeping Thisstle, occas
sional Fielld Forget-me-not,
Cre
eeping Butttercup, Common R Ragwort, White
W Clov
ver, Germaander Spe eedwell,
Sprringy Turf--moss, Se elf-heal, aand rare Curled Do ock, Commmon Mou use-ear,
Chaanging Forrget-me-no ot, Perforatte St. John
n’s-wort and Commonn Stork’s-b bill.

Souuth of Elm
m Corner and by th he Mount Pleasant Cottages is rough course
grassland dom
minated byy grasses including frequent
f Yorkshire-foog and False Oat-
grass with Co
ock’s-foot, Soft Bromme, Roughh Meadow--grass, Baarren Bromme, Red
Fesscue and Sweet
S Vern
nal-grass.

Thee grasslan nd on the northern edge of Stratford Bridge Woood comp prises a
spe
ecies rich ‘m meadow’ ofo grasslan nd and tall vegetation
n. Speciess include frequent
f
to occasional False Oat-grass,
O Curled Dock, Com mmon Kna pweed, Creeping
C
Butttercup, Germander
G r Speedw well, Agrimmony, Wild Teaseel, Yorksh hire-fog,
Perrforate St. John’s-wort, Creep ping Cinquuefoil, Cleaavers, Coommon Birrd’s-foot
Trefoil, Wild Parsnip,
P Creeping
C C
Cinquefoil, Red Clove er, Lesserr Stitchworrt, Hairy
St. John’s-wo ort, Cleaverrs, Creepin
ng Thistle, Broad-leaaved Dock,, Field Forget-me-
not,, Red Bartsia, Ribwo ort Plantain
n, Tufted Vetch,
V Wild Basil and Dwarf Mallow. In
a sllight hollow
w was whe ere over 700+ Southern Marsh Orchid
O (122 flowering spikes)
werre recorded d.

Snaakes Fieldd
Snaakes Field is divided into two (wwestern an nd eastern) fields by a path an nd linear
wooodland. Th he eastern side is a l ittle more varied
v andd certainly tthe northern edge
hass a slight acidic
a feel from the underlying g local soils. Here Sheep’s Sorrel
S is
loca
ally abundant, in a wide
w bandd with freq quent Germ mander Sppeedwell, Ribwort
Plantain, Yarrow, Common Mousse-ear, Lesser Stitch hwort and Rough Meadow-
M
grass. More occasiona ally are LLesser Tre efoil, Sweeet Vernall-grass, Creeping
C
Butttercup andd Common n Bird’s-foo
ot Trefoil. Whilst
W Field Forget-mme-not, Yo orkshire-
fog and Com mmon Ragwort (spra ayed) are rare. She eep’s Sorrrel is alsoo locally
abuundant in the weste ern field in
n a very small
s patc
ch close too the Wild derness
Cotttage.

Thee rest of th
he field co
omprises frrequent Yo orkshire-fog with occcasional Creeping
C
Thisstle, Creeeping Butttercup, Ro ough Mea adow-gras ss, Germaander Spe eedwell,
Ribwort Planttain, Comm mon Sorre el, Greaterr Stitchworrt and Fieeld Forget-me-not.
Lussher parts are marke ed out by ta
aller lusher grasses and herbss in addition to the
aboove locallyy frequent Common n Knapwee ed, Field Wood-russh, Smooth h Tare,

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Commmon Bird d’s-foot Tre


efoil, Comm
mon Vetchh and Red Bartsia. The weste
ern field
in g
general is more
m dominated by m more rough
h, coarse grassland.
g

In a
addition thee following
g were reco orded in th
he last few
w years by a local rec
corder -
Wildd Basil, Wild
W Marjo
oram, Yello ow Rattle,, Common n Eyebrighht and To ormentil.
Alsiike Cloverr was recorded at th e eastern end of Sn nakes Fieldd, one pla
ant only.
Alsoo local pattches of Bird’s-foot a
and Trailing
g St. John’s-wort on the edge of
o wood
by E
Elm Corne er.

Sem mi-improve
ed Neutral Grassland d with Ephe emeral /Shhort Perennnial species
Thiss represen
nts parched d ground o
on shallow w soils towaards the wwestern end d of the
site
e. It is oftten grazedd by rabb its and soome are lo ocally charracteristic of acid
grassland. Species are a varied for example locally y frequent Early Hair-grass,
Littlle Mouse--ear, Field Forget-m
me-not, Bitting Stonecrop, Com mmon Stork’s-bill,
Com mmon Mouse-ear, Sticky
S Mouuse-ear, Parley-piert
P t, Changinng Forget-me-not,
Earrly Forget--me-not, Procumban
P nt Pearlwo ort, Scarlet Pimpernnel, Squirre el-tailed
Fesscue, Thale e-cress, Creeping C inquefoil, Ribwort
R Plantain andd tufts of Bugloss,
B
Com mmon Rag gwort, Hard d Rush, S pear Thisttle, Perfora
ate St. Johhns-wort an nd Field
Forrget-me-noot. Rue-leaaved Saxifrrage is rare
e, as is Silv
ver Hair-grrass.

Theere is a second sm mall area oof species-rich grasssland withh ephemerral/short


perennial speecies whichh is locate
ed on the southern edge
e of thhe site nea
ar Hyde
Lanne. The we eedy speccies includee Common n Ragwort, Field Forgget-me-not, Biting
Stonecrop, Bugloss,
B Germande
G er Speedw well, Grou
und-ivy, Leesser Stittchwort,
Yarrrow, Commmon Storrk’s-bill, RRed Bartsia, Thyme e-leaved S Sandwort, Scarlet
Pim
mpernel, Spear Thisttle, Vervaiin, Perfora ate St. Joh
hn’s-wort, Self-heal, Rough
Hawwkbit, Scenntless Mayyweed, Litttle Mouse-ear, Canaddian Fleabbane, Wild Teasel,
Fielld Wild Pansy,
P Thyme-leave ed Sandwort, Scarle et Pimperrnel, Proc cumbent
Peaarlwort, White
W Clove
er, Comm mon Mouse e-ear, Annnual Meaddow-grass,, Dwarf
Malllow, Commmon Pop ppy, Weld , Buck’s-h horn Planttain, Earlyy Hair-graass and
Lessser Trefoiil. It was here thatt over 20 plants of Common Cudweed d, Sand
Spuurrey and the Hybrid d Cinquefo oil were re
ecorded (PPotentilla x mixta hyybrid) at
appproximatelyy TQ 06810 57315.

ntinuous Bracken
Con B
Sho
own in terracotta on Figure
F 1. T There are several sm
mall areas of dense Bracken
B
ove
er the site
e, mainly associated d with wooodland edge
e towaards the northern
n
bou
undaries annd the wes
st of the sitte.

Theere are dense areas of Brackeen located on the eddge of Snaakes Field, part of
the woodland ecotone. As well ass other are
eas of Brac
cken particcularly towa
ards the
wesstern end of
o the runw
way, west o
of the wet depression
d n (Target NNote 11).

Talll Ruderal
Sho own as terrracotta dia es on Figurre 1. Therre is a patcchy distrib
agonal line bution of
tall ruderal ve
egetation across
a the
e site and it is often an intimatte mix with semi-
impproved neu utral grassland and sscattered scrub, thereefore only the more obvious
areas have be een mappe ed. See allso Target Note 5 forr additionall informatio
on.

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The ey range frrom a collection of w


weedy tall species, to t dense aareas of Bramble,
B
Com mmon Nettle, Bracke en (often a
associated with wood dland edgee) and/or Hemlock
H
(loccally domin
nant stands
s in the weest of the site), interm
mingled withh a range of other
speecies such as Creep ping Thistlee, Spear Thistle,
T Fie
eld Forgett-me-not and
a rare
Bug gloss and occasional
o ly young trrees such as Silver Birch.
B

Forr example weedy sp pecies ofteen cropped d up on th he edge oof the airsttrip and
arable fields being
b map
pped as a linear line, including False Oaat-grass, Creeping
C
Thisstle, Cow Parsley. Germand der Speed dwell, Scarlet Pimpeernel, Dov ve’s-foot
Cra
ane’s-bill, Hawthorn saplings, Bramble,, Field Fo orget-me-nnot, Broadd-leaved
Docck, Commo on Ragworrt, Spear T
Thistle, Yorrkshire-fog and Commmon Nettlee.

Thee extensive
e stands off tall ruderral species s east of Sttratford Briidge includ
de large
patcches domiinated by Hemlock,
H B
Bramble and
a Common Nettle, occasiona ally with
Blackthorn and
a Sycam more as w well as False
F Oat--grass, WWhite Dead d-nettle,
Commmon Rag gwort, Cree eping Butttercup, Cre eeping Thistle and C Common Ragwort.
R
As well as pa atches with h an affinitty towards
s a grassla and mosaicc such as Barren
Bro
ome, Comm mon Bird’s s-foot Trefo
oil, Smallerr Cat’s-tail, Commonn Nettle, Common
C
Raggwort, Cre eeping Th histle, Peerennial Rye-grass,
R Rough H Hawkbit, Ribwort
Plantain, Dovve’s-foot Crane’s-bi
C ll, Yarrow
w, Prickly Sow-thistlle, Yorksh hire-fog,
Lessser Trefoill, Soft Brom
me and Ne ettle with Hemlock.
H

Sta
anding Watter
Thee temporarry wet dep pressions aand season
nal flushes
s are not m
mapped on
n Figure
1, b
but referred
d to by Tarrget Note 1
11.

In a
addition paarallel surv
veys by Co onsultants RPS and EPR noteed other po
onds on
the site, and where
w relev
vant are diiscussed fu
urther.

Runnning Wateer
Shoown as a blue line on Figure e 1, it show
ws the len
ngth of thee Stratford
d Brook
running throug
gh the Stra
atford Bridg
ge Wood.

Araable
Shoown with a white bac ckground a and labelle ed A on Figure 1. T he majority of the
site
e north, sou
uth and east of the aiirstrip is wo
orking arab
ble fields.

Thee field edge vegetatio


on is discu
ussed under Tall Ruderal Vegeetation. However
H
sevveral arable
e weeds were
w seen under the crops suc ch as Fieldd Pansy, Fat-hen,
F
Pineapplewee ed, Common Ragwo ort, Prickly Sow-thistle, Redshaank, Field Forget-
me--not and Scarlet
S Pimpernel.

See
e also targe
et notes fo
or additiona
al species information.

Inta
act Native Species-ric
S ch Hedge
Shoown as a straight
s green line w
with green side dashes on Figuure 1. Th
here are
twoo main hedges on thee site.

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The
ere is one
e planted hedge/sha
aw by Mou
unt Pleasa
ant Cottagges of Syc
camore,
Bra
amble and fruit trees.

In a
addition by Bridge En
nd Farm th ere is a sh
hort section
n of hedge with English Elm,
Peddunculate Oak,
O Hawtthorn, Elde
er, Dog Rose, Common Ivy andd Common Nettle.

Harrd Standingg (Concrette & tarmacc with a mosaic of tall ruderal/eephemeral


spe
ecies)
Thiss is shown
n in grey on
n Figure 1 and repressents the old
o runwayy/airstrip.

Thiss old disussed airstrip


p has beco
ome weath hered and cracked, tthis has ov ver time
provvided suitaable conditions for a wide rannge of ephemeral annd short pe erennial
spe
ecies to exp ploit. Suchh as Commmon Whitloow-grass, Common
C aand Sticky Mouse-
ear, Weld, Th hyme-leave ohn’s-wort, Field Forget-me-
ed Sandw ort, Perforrate St. Jo
not,, Biting Sto
onecrop, Dove’s-foot
D Crane’s-bbill and Ann
nual Meadoow-grass.

Forr example south


s of Elm Lane thhe following show up p in the craacks in the landing
strip
p locally frrequent Thhyme-leave ed Sandwo ort, Annual Meadow--grass, Yo orkshire-
fog,, Perforatte St. Jo ohn’s-wort,, Field Forget-me-
F not, Earlyy Forget-me-not,
Cha anging Forget-me-n not, Spea ar Thistle e, Biting Stonecroop, Broad d-leaved
Willlowherb, Procumben
P nt Pearlwo
ort, Lesserr Trefoil, Scarlet
S Pim
mpernel, Common
C
Stork’s-bill, Brramble, Co ommon Fig gwort, Wildd Teasel, Squirrel-tai
S l Fescue, Slender
Parrsley-piert and Dand delion. Ta aller ruderral species
s include Creeping Thistle,
Spe ear Thistle, Bramble,, Wild Tea asel, Hard Rush, Bug gloss and E Evening Primrose
P
sp.,, are the ta
aller plants.

Thee hydrology of this area


a south of Elm La ane (knowwn locally aas Elm Coorner) is
succh that wa ater pools in places (see tem mporary poond descripption, TN111) and
creaates damp p soil conditions unde er the craccked tarma
ac. The reesulting veg
getation
refle
ects this with
w local patches
p off locally do
ominant Haard Rush, as well ass Water
Figwwort and Common
C Figwort
F inte
ermingled with
w Hard Rush
R and yyoung dev veloping
scruub of Ash, Sycamore e, Silver Birrch, Grey Willow
W and
d Butterfly- bush.

By Hyde Lane, the trac ck leading off the sitte to the south
s of thhe site, the
ere is a
variied tall ruderal vegeetation inccluding Coommon Ne ettle, Barreen Brome, White
Cammpion, Com mmon Stork’s-bill, Yaarrow, Bitin
ng Stonecrrop, Cut-leeaved Cran ne’s-bill,
Grooundsel, Cleavers,
C Red Fesscue, Pric ckly Sow--thistle, C Common Mallow,
Commmon Field Speedwell, Red De ead-nettle, Field Forget-me-noot, Bramble e, Spear
Thisstle, Greatter Plantain, Mugwo rt, Thyme--leaved Sa andwort, WWhite Dead d-nettle,
Ribwort Planttain, Comm mon Bird’s -foot Trefo
oil, Commo on Mouse--ear, Perfo orate St.
Johhn’s-wort, Soft
S Brome, Nipplew wort, Hemlock, Fat-h hen, Field Bindweed d, False
Oatt-grass, Prickly Letttuce, Scarrlet Pimpe ernel, Grouundsel, Coommon Evening-
E
prim
mrose and Field Pans sy.

Buililding
The
ere is one disused building in tthe south east
e er of the sitte, Target Note 3.
corne
The
ere is also a beacon in the sam
me corner, Target
T Notte 4.

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Barre Ground
Shoown as a white background w with black dots on Figure 1 annd represe ents the
gravvel at the western
w en
nd of the ru
unway, which is gradually scrubbbing up.

Tarrget Notes
Shoown as a reed circle and numberred from 1 to 12 on Figure
F 1.

Tarrget Note 1 – Large rubble pilee.


Tarrget Note 2 – Great Brome (an nd found otther places s on arablee field marggins).
Tarrget Note 3 – Disuseed airfield b
building.
Tarrget Note 4 – Beaco on.
Tarrget Note 5 – Path with
w tall rud derals eithe
er side. Here the ara rable weed d Sharp-
leavedd Fluellen, sometime es seen on n sandy aarable soilss, along
with Common Mallow, White Dead-nettle , Great Brome,
Buglos ss, Marsh Cudweed, Pineapple eweed, Lessser Swine e-cress,
Ribwort Plantain n, Creeping g Thistle an
nd Dove’s--foot Crane e’s-bill.
Tarrget Note 6 – Sand Spurrey, a also recorded in the e ‘middle oof the airffield’ by
local re
ecorder.
Tarrget Note 7 – Over 202 flowerin g Common n Cudweed d recordedd in 2016.
Tarrget Note 8 – Small number off Common Cudweed plants seeen in 2016.
Tarrget Note 9 – Corn Spurrey 2 20+ flowerring plants s recordedd in 2016 on the
southeern edge o of an arable field along
a with Wall Spe eedwell,
Field Pansy, Thyme-lea aved Sandwort, F Fat-hen, Scarlet
Pimpe ernel and MMarsh Cudw weed.
Tarrget Note 10 – Mature e decayingg Peduncullate Oak.
Tarrget Note 11 – Tempo orary poolss. The so outhern on ne is vegeetated with h locally
abundant New Z Zealand Pigmyweed, Field Forrget-me-no ot, Hard
Rush and
a surrou unded by Grey
G Willoww.
Tarrget Note 12 – Knotteed Hedge-p parsley reccorded in 2016
2 by loccal recorde
er.

Oth
her non-plant species
A ffew casuaal notes onn birds w
were made during th he 2016 ssurvey – Skylark,
S
Buzzzard, Green Woodp pecker, Pheeasant, Woodpigeon
W n. On onee visit a Fie
eld Vole
wass seen as well
w as a Common
C T
Toad. Rabb bits dropping were allso noted. A local
recoorder madde a note of severaal butterflie
es during summer 22016 in pa articular
Snaakes Field such as Green
G Hairsstreak, Commmon Blue e and Smaall Copper.

Oth
her additionnal survey summary information is included in this rreport from
m recent
EPRR and RP PS survey ys, commisssioned by
b the site e owners and supp plied by
Guiildford Boro
ough Coun ncil.

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Assessmen nt of Wis
sley Airfiield 2007
7 reasons
s for SNC
CI selecttion
usiing 2008
8 Guidelin
nes for SSurrey
Thee current re eason for the
t Wisleyy Airfield SNCI selecttion from 22007 is giv ven as –
‘Thiis site is selected forr its importtance for reptiles,
r plants andd birds. 9 notable
Surrrey plant species
s ha
ave been re recorded on n the site. In additioon 3 RSPB
B red list
bird
ds speciess and 7 RS SPB ambe er list birds
s species have
h beenn recorded
d on the
site
e. This sites has an
a exceptio onal popu ulation of Grass Snnakes as well as
suppporting go ood popullations of Slow-worm ms, Comm mon Lizard rds and Common
C
Froogs.’

Pla
ants
Tab
ble 2 (at th
he back of this reportt) provides
s the specie es recordeed in 2016. Table
3 provides a list of thos
se plants th
hat have been
b recorrded on thee site that have a
con
nservation status, (als
so see not es attacheed to table)). These aare:

 Grasslland Indic cators – as listed in Table 1 in the G Guidance for the


es of Natu re Conserrvation Imp
Selection of Site portance ((SNCIs) in Surrey
(Gibbs, 2008).
 Surreyy Axiophy ytes – ass listed by b Surrey Botanical Society, Surrey
Axiophhyte Plant Species ((SBS, 201 14), which are know wn to be ‘worthy’
plants and are plants indica ative of hab
bitats that need to bee conserveed.
 Notablle Species s - UK / En ngland Red d Data Listt species aas well as species
that are
e Rare, Sc
carce or of Conservation Interest in Surreey, as listed d on the
Draft Surrey
S County Rare P Plant Regis ster (SBS, Oct 2016)).
 Importtant Arable Plants – As listed in Append dix 2 of thee Importantt Arable
Plant Areas
A by Plantlife (Byyfield & Wilson, 20055).

A summary off the Plant Conserva


ation Status
s for the sitte is providded below:

Tab
ble 1: Su
ummary Plant Co
onservatiion Statu
us
Statu
us Type Histo
orical Total Tottal for 2016
Grasssland Indiccators 56 (11 in bold) 40 (5 in bold))
Axiop
phytes 62 34
Notab
ble Speciees:
U
UK BAP Prriority / SPI 2 -
G
GBRL: End dangered 3 -
G
GBRL: Vulnerable 1 1
G
GBRL: Nea ar Threatened 2 1
E
ERL: Near Threatene ed 4 1
V
VC17 Rare e 3 -
V
VC17 Scarrce 4 1
Important Arablle Plants (IIAPA score
e) 47 po
oints 33 points

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24 Vascular Plants a) Supports s one or more


m spec
cies includ
ded in the
e latest
Nattional Red
d Data Listt for plants
s.

Com mments – See Table e 1 & Tablee 3 lists. 6 species on


o GB and England Red R
Listt have been recordedd in the Wisley Airfielld (excludin
ng Snakess Field) since
20007, with 2 being
b recorrded during
g 2016 surrveys.

Wissley Airfield
d (not inclu
uding Snakkes Field)
*Loose Silky-b bent – GBR RL NT – la
ast seen arrable field edges
e 201 4
*Ha
airy Rock-ccress – ER RL NT – lasst seen western end 2014
2
*Co
ommon Cu udweed – GBRL NT T – last see
en southe ern centrall 2016
*Co
orn Spurre ey – GBRL L V – last s
seen soutthern centtral 2016
Annnual Knawe el – GBRL L E – last s een 2007

e.4 GBRL / ERL since 2014, thu


* i.e us meetingg the criterria. Two off which we
ere
reco orded during the 2016 survey. EPR (2017) Techniical Note 2 states ‘A small
pop pulation of between 20-50
2 plantts of Near Threatene ed (NT) Coommon Cud dweed
on o one verge on the sou uthern site of the site
e (a single plant
p was recorded close
c to
thiss populationn by was la
ater washe ed away annd not refoound). Thee other was sa
singgle plant in
n two locatiions of the
e Vulnerablle (VU) araable weed Corn Spurrrey
reco orded on thhe south edge
e of the
e site amonngst rank grassland.’
g ’

Snaakes Field only


Commmon Eye ebright – ER
RL NT – laast seen 20010
Torrmentil – ERL NT – laast seen 20 016
Heaath Speedw well – ERLL NT – lastt seen 2010
0

** i..e. 2 ERL NT
N since 2010,
2 thus meeting th
he criteria.

 Criteria met, for species


s found with
w a scatttered disstribution across
Wisleyy Airfield and
a also S
Snakes Fie
eld.

24 Vascular Plants d)d Supporrts specie es identiffied by S


Surrey Bo
otanical
ciety as ra
Soc are and no
otable with
hin Surrey
y.

Com mments – 8 Rare and notable e Surrey Species


S hav ve been reecorded att Wisley
Airffield (excluding Snak om the 201 6 surveys.
kes Field) ssince 2006, with 4 fro

Wissley Airfield
d (excludinng Snakes Field)
*Loose Silky-b bent – lastt seen arabble field edges 2014
*Ha
airy Rock-ccress – lastt seen wesstern end 2014
2
*Co
ornflower – last seen arable ffields 2016 6
**Common Cudweed
C – last seenn southern n central 2016
2
*Co
ommon Ra amping-fu umitory – llast seen 2016
2
Yellow Bartsia a – last seeen Elm Coorner 2006
Annnual Knawe el – last se
een 2007
**Corn Spurrrey – last seens soutthern centtral 2016

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* 6 seen sincee 2014 acrross Wisleyy Airfield


** 2 seen in 2016 during
g 2016 SNC CI survey

Snaakes Field only


Commmon Eye ebright – last seen 20
010
Heaath Speedw well – last seen 2010
0
Torrmentil – la
ast seen 20 016

 Criteria met, for species found sc


cattered distributio
d n across Wisley
Airfield
d and also
o Snakes F
Field.

Rep
ptiles

20 R
Reptiles b.
b Populatio
ons of 3 orr more natiive reptile species.

Commments – RPS (2013) Reptile Survey co hat the sitee supports ‘Low’
omments th
Pop
pulations of
o Adders and
a Comm on Lizard and ‘Good’ Populatioons of Slow w-
worrms and Grass Snakes.

EPRR (2015) Reptile


R Surrvey conclu
ude that the site supp
ports ‘Low’’ Populations of
Slow
w-worm, Common
C Lizard and GGrass Sna ake.

EPRR (2016) Reptile


R Surrvey comm
ments that the
t site suppports a ‘G
Good’ Popuulations
of S
Slow-worm
m and Common Lizard d and ‘Low
w’ Populatio
on of Grasss Snake.

The
e site qualifies as a key reptile ssite under Froglife gu
uidelines (F
Froglife, 19
999).

 Criteria met, rep


ptile intere
est is conffined to th
he western
n part of the
t site
and the northernn boundarry.

20 Reptiles d. Sites supporting


s an assemmblage of species sscoring at least 4
poin
nts using the scorin NCI Guidellines (Gibbbs, 2008) can be
ng system in the SN
con
nsidered fo
or selection
n.

Com mments – EPR (201 17) Techni cal Note 2 state that ‘Using thee 2013 datta those
parrts of the siite where reptiles
r occcur score six
s points, using the 22015 data the site
sco
ores four po oints and using
u the 2
2016 data the
t site sco
ores five pooints.’

 Criteria met, rep


ptile intere
est is conffined to th
he western
n part of the
t site
and the northernn boundarry.

Bird
ds

Com mments – A separate, stand a


alone bird survey wa
as not undeertaken as
s part of
thiss review as
a RPS suurvey inforrmation waas already
y availablee via GBCC. This

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eva
aluation wa as thereforre carried out using Wisley Airrfield, Surrrey: Breediing Bird
Surrvey, Com mmon Bird Census, Little Ringed Plove er Survey,, Nightjar Survey
(RP
PS, 2014). 43 specie es were id entified du
uring these
e surveys. 32 consid dered to
be breeding on the site. 6 UK K BAP Priiority Spec cies / Speecies of Principal
P
Imp
portance (S SPI) – Dunnnock, Hou use Sparroow, Linnet, Skylark, Song Thru ush and
Starling all of which werre found too be breeding on the site.

Forr the purpo


oses of this report tthe bird da
ata has be
een updateed using Birds
B of
Connservation Concern 4 (BOCC4 4). On the e BOCC4 Red List aare Grey Wagtail,
W
Houuse Sparroow, Skylark and Starrling. On the BOCC C4 Amber List are Common
C
el, Mallard , Stock Dove and Swift.
Turrn, Dunnocck, Kestre S Noo Nightjar or bird
spe
ecies assoociated witth Thamess Basin Heath
H Speccial Protecction Area
a (SPA)
(Nig
ghtjar, Woo
odlark and Dartford WWarbler) were
w record
ded.

Thee Wisley Airfield,


A Surrey: Win ntering Birrd Survey (RPS 20014) recorrded 39
commmon bird d species and conclluded thatt there wa as an oveerall low diversity,
alth
hough Fieldfare and d Redwing g (winter thrushes are speccialists of arable
habbitats) were recordedd on the ssite. Of these spec cies 6 are UK BAP Priority
Speecies / Speecies of Principal
P Im
mportance (SPI) – Herring Gul l, Dunnockk, Song
Thrrush, Linne
et, Skylark and Starlin
ng.

Theere are 8 listed on th


he BOCC4 4 Red list– Fieldfare, Herring G
Gull, Linnett, Mistle
Thrrush, Redw wing, Skyla
ark, Song Thrust, Sttarling. Als
so 4 on thhe BOCC4 4 Amber
Listt – Black-headed Gull, Dunnockk, Kestrel and
a Stock Dove.

 Criteria not mett, based o


on recent surveys supplied
s bby GBC, thet site
does not
n curren ntly meet tthe curren
nt SNCI gu
uidelines ffor birds (Gibbs,
2008), see Appe
endix 2 forr more info
ormation.

Assessmen nt of Wis
sley Airfiield against SNCI selectio
on using
g 2008
Gu
uidelines for Surrrey

The
e site meetts the SNC
CI selection
n guidelines under the followingg criteria:

1WWoodland e. Wet wo
oodland fa
alling withiin NVC typ
pes W1, W
W2, W4c, W5,
W W6
and
d W7.

Commments – This relates to the 5 5.08ha wett Alderwood referred to in this report
r at
Stra
atford Bridge Wood in the sou th west co orner of the
e site. Altthough a full NVC
wass not unde ertaken, in
n the opin nion of thee surveyorr, the wooodland is likely to
sup
pport W6 anda W7 coommunitiess. This wo oodland ha abitat is coonsidered to be a
UK BAP Prio ority Habita
at / Habita at of Princiipal Importtance (HPPI) and is within
w a
Bioddiversity Opportunity
O y Area (B BOA) RO4 4 – River Wey (andd tributarie es). In
adddition nine Ancient Woodland
W Indicators (AWI) we ere recordeed here inncluding
grasses Gian nt Fescue, Bearded Couch, Wood W Spurge and H Hairy Bromme (see
spe
ecies list ta
able for oveerall site A
AWI list). In addition the 2007 SNCI surv vey saw

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add
ditional AW
WI species - Moschattel, Wood Meadow-g
M rass, Fieldd Rose and
d Wood
Spe
eedwell.

 Criteria met for Stratford Bridge Wood.

4 NNeutral Grassland b. Grasslland sites s, which support


s a high dive ersity of
speecies typica
al of grasssland of coonservatioon interest in Surrey.. As a gu uideline,
site
es which suupport 15 or
o more of the specie es listed in Table 1 off the Guidaance for
the Selectionn of Sites of Nature e Conserv vation Importance (S SNCIs) in Surrey
(Gibbbs, 2008)), including
g at least 2 of the sp
pecies in bold
b are likkely to be of
o SNCI
quaality.

Commments – As show wn in Table e 3 and Appendix


A 2 Criteria 24, Snakees Field
meeets the critteria to qua
alify as an SNCI in its
s own right. Howeveer it was su
urveyed
here as part of u and ass such contributes to the site ass a whole.
o a wider unit

In a n the opinion of the surveyor, the disturrbed grasssland towa


addition, in ards the
wesstern end of the site e is likely tto contain populationns of 15 orr more Grassland
Indiicator Speccies. EPR R (2017) Te echnical Note 2 sugg gests ‘Therre are sma
all areas
of d
disturbed grassland.. For exa ample, one e is an arrea used ffor the A33 works
commpound, one was us sed for hisstoric landffill, some are associ
ciated with ground
worrks for buillding the runway
r and d taxiwayss. There iss much imp
mported ma aterial in
thesse areas. These gra asslands m may have 15 or more indicator sspecies in them.’
t

Graassland Inddicator Species reco orded durin


ng the 2016 survey for Snake es Field
tota
al 17 with none in bo old (see G
Gibbs, 2008), see Apppendix 2 Criteria 4 Neutral
Graassland forr list of spe
ecies also T
Table 3.

Thoose Grasslland Indicaator Specie es recorde ed during 2016


2 from Wisley Airrfield as
awwhole (note e species recorded
r frrom Snake es Field orr Stratford Bridge Wooodland
are not includded here) total
t 39 (w
with 6 bold) and altho ough they have a sc cattered
disttribution over
o the site
s and o over seve eral differe
ent habitaat types (i.e. not
neccessarily all on neutrral grassla nd) there is a conceentration att the weste
ern end
of tthe site. See
S also Appendix
A 2 Criteria 4 Neutral Grasslandd for list of
o these
speecies and Table
T 3.

 Criteria met for Snakes Fiield.


 Criteria may be met withh a restricted distrib
bution in the weste
ern end
of the runway.

8 S
Standing Open Wa ater c) Wa ater bodies or clusters of waater bodies
s which
sup
pport a significant population
n of a sp pecies as discussedd in the species
guid
dance.

Commments – See Appendix 2 Criteria 19 c) wherre the vallue of Pon


nd 3 is
presented.

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 Criteria met for Pond 3.

12 O
Open Mos
saic Habitats on Pre
eviously Developed
D d Land.

a) O
Open Mosaaic habitat sites wherre;
 6 or moore of the characteris
c stic feature
es are foun
nd
 form paart of a wid
der compleex of similaar areas, prroviding lo ng term ha
abitat
opportu
unity
 There is a signific
cant invert ebrate asssemblage

Commments – Sites where 6 or m more of the e characteeristic featuures listed


d (in the
SNC CI Guidelin
nes) wouldd qualify ass an SNCI for this criteria. Thee relevant features
f
founnd on this site are e Floristic & habita at diversityy, Soil typpe and sttructure,
Toppography, Successio
S n, Bare gro ound and Shelter.
S In
n the opinioon of the surveyor
s
therre is veryy good po otential forr a signific
cant inverrtebrate asssemblage e. The
wesstern end of the run nway is off potential conservattion interesst for this habitat
typee. There are
a also otther areass of with chharacteristiic featuress scatteredd across
the rest of the
e site, and
d whilst on their own are not significant, could be seen s as
impportant as part
p of a co omplex mo osaic of habitats within the site as a whole e.

In a
addition when
w usingg the crite ria set ou
ut in the UKU Biodiveersity Actio on Plan
Prio
ority Habittat Descripptions: Oppen Mosaic Habitats s on Prev iously Dev veloped
Lannd (July 20
010) it is su
uggested thhat each off the criteria are met,, listed belo
ow:

1 The are ea of open


n mosaic h abitat is ovver 0.25ha in size.
2 There is a known n history off disturbance of soil, spoil.
3 The sitte contains
s some earrly success sional com
mmunities iincluding annuals,
a
ruderal and open n grasslandd.
4 The sitte contains unvegettated, loos se bare su ubstrate annd pools may be
presen
nt.
5 The sitte shows spatial variaation, form
ming a mosa aic of com munities.

Opeen mosaicc habitats are conssidered UK K BAP Priority Habbitat / Ha abitat of


Prin
ncipal Importance (H
HPI). Alth ough scatttered acro
oss the sitee the main
n areas
are towards the
t westerrn end of the runwa
ay and on the southhern bound dary by
Hydde Lane (trrack).

 Criteria met for the weste


ern part off the site.

13 Arable a, all sites which


w meeet the crite
eria for Im
mportant Arrable Plant Areas
PA), which
(IAP h are not co
overed by other desig
gnations.

Commments – The score for thosse plants seens in 2016 have bbeen calculated to
be 33 using the
t Important Arable e Plant Are
eas documment (Byfieeld & King,, 2005),
which indicate
es that the
e site is of County Im
mportance for sandy and free draining
d

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soils. The ovverall scoree for speccies found across the e site sincee 1985 is 47, this
placces it in the category
y for qualifyying for Plantlife Imp
portant Araable Areas for Site
of U
UK Importa ance.

Thee arable we eeds that have


h been recorded have a res
stricted, scaattered
disttribution accross the whole
w of the
e site.

Alth
hough que estions hav ve been assked as to o the ‘arable’ nature of some ofo these
recoords SWT T ES feel that
t the fa
act that the ey are on site is an indicator of both
currrent and potential vaalue of this habitat. The
T ephem meral naturre of arablee plants
makkes evalua ation of the
e distributiion of thesse species
s in a sing le year diffficult to
asssess. Whilst some of these sp ecies have e not been
n seen in thhe last few
w years,
with
h a little disturbanc ce or corrrect clima ate condittions therere could well
w be
resuurgence inn populations. Althou ugh it is ac
cknowledgeed that currrent mana agement
is u
unlikely to produce this. This is backed d up by thee Plantlife (2005) Immportant
Araable Plant Areas
A ‘Forr practical purposes records dating
d backk to 1985 may be
connsidered.’

 Criteria is met as
a the IAPA A score would
w sugg
gest that W
Wisley Airrfield is
of UK K /County y Importa ance. Th he majoriity of thee records s have
restric
cted, scatttered disttribution from
f the arable
a fie lds, runw
way and
westerrn end of the
t site.

18 Mammals Bats c. Foraging


F sittes not ass
sociated directly withh roosts sh
hould be
con
nsidered fo
or selection
n if more thhan 5 species are reegularly reecorded the ere or if
use
ed by any Annex
A II sp
pecies.

Commments – RPS (2013) Bat Su urvey repoort states ‘The site wwas assess sed has
havving ‘High’’ bat intereest’ and th
hat ‘The ve egetated boundaries
b s of the siite (tree
aveenues, hed dgerows, scrub
s corrid
dors and woodland),
w were founnd to be th he area
of m
most value e to bats ono the sitee bring of ‘High’ bat interest. These thre ee keys
area provide a variety of o habitats for bats to
o forage annd commuute. No ba ats were
deteected in th
he open arrable fieldss during the
e three acttivity surveeys which suggest
s
thesse habitatts offer lim
mited forag ging and commuting
c g opportunnities.’ Durring the
20113 surveys a total of five
f specie
es were reccorded - Common Piipistrelle, Soprano
S
Pipistrelle, Myyotis sp, Se
erotine andd Noctule.

Durring the 20016 EPR Bat Surve ey four to five species were rrecorded on o each
survvey, mostlyy from Commmon and d Soprano Pipistrelle bats – Coommon Pip pistrelle,
Sopprano Pipisstrelle, Noc
ctule, Myottis sp., Natthusius Pip
pistrelle & LLeisler’s ba
ats.

 This suggests
s that the criteria has been met. Thee main arreas of
interes
st for bats
s are the w
western en
nd and alo
ong the so
outhern ed
dge.

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19 Amphibia
ans c. Supports
S p
populations
s of four or more native am
mphibian
spe
ecies.

Commments – The upda ated EPR (2 2015) Amp phibian surrvey statess ‘survey work
w
hass identified that areas s potentially
ly supportin
ng up to fo
our amphibbian specie es
with
hin the site e are limited to pondss 2 and 3 and
a suitable e connecteed terrestriial
habbitat (i.e. th
he northernn, western and south western part
p of the ssite only).’

The
e data from
m the EPR (2013 & 2 2015) surve eys identiffied Smootth Newt, Common
C
Toa
ad and Common Fro og on the ssite. In ad
ddition Gre eat Crestedd Newt ha
ave also
bee
en found on
o the site,, although not found to be bre eeding in thhe ponds, and by
unrelated surrveys on Surrey
S Wiildlife Trus
st land to the northh and it co ould be
sug
ggested thaat ‘this ma
ay represeent a potential metapopulationn.’ (D Winc chester,
SW
WT ES/SAR RG pers. coomm.). Th herefore this criteria is met for P
Pond 3.

 Criteria met for Pond 3 on


n the soutth western
n corner o
of the site.

e site may also meet the SNCI selection guidelines


The g under the following criteria;
c

22 Invertebrattes.

Com mments – EPR state e that ‘an u


updated invertebrate survey waas carried on from
Mayy – Septe ember 20 013’, and in that re eport the author sttates that ‘a full
inve
ertebrate survey
s wa
as underta aken’. 44 invertebra
ates were recorded over 6
visitts. The updated EP PR Inverte ebrate Survvey 2016 found
f 73 sspecies, re
ecorded
on a single sitte visit during July.

It iss of the op
pinion of twwo local e
entomologissts who kn now Wisleey Airfield that
t the
site
e has poten ntial to be of
o conservation intere
est for inve
ertebrates.

 Furthe
er inverteb
brate surv
vey work is
i recommmended ovver severa al days
during
g a full season b by an ex xperience
ed entom ologist to o fully
ascertain the co
onservatio
on status for
f Wisley or invertebrates.
y Airfield fo

Ge
eneral gu
uidelines
The
e SNCI selection guid delines (Giibbs, 20088) state that “sites thaat are close
e to, but
do not quitee meet the e detailedd habitat and speciies guidellines … may m be
con
nsidered foor selection
n where thhey are ju udged as important uusing the general
guid
delines” wh
hich are baased on th e Ratcliffe Criteria (R
Ratcliffe, 19977).

Com mments – See Appe endices 1 a and 2. Appendix 3 shows


s an aassessmen
nt of the
site
e against th
he general guideliness.

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Sitte condittion
Unffavourable Declining – The site e combine es a patchw
work of haabitats and
d arable
field
ds that ha
ave provided a uniq que assem mblage of rare and unusual species.
s
How wever, apa
art from th he arable fields and d Snakes Field (Surrrey Wildliffe Trust
reseerve and under
u differrent ownerrship) it is not
n currenttly being m
managed.

Bo
oundaries
s
In g
general terms, the booundaries o
of the site as defined
d in 2006 aare still con
nsidered
to bbe an acccurate reflection of the qualiffying naturre conservvation inte erest as
desscribed by this report. Howeve r two boun ndary changes are reecommended (see
Figuure 3).

As Guidance for the Selection of S SNCIs in Surrey


S (Gib
bbs, 2008) make clea ar, page
7 first bullet point
p ‘Wheerever posssible the boundaries
b s of an SN NCI should d follow
cleaar physicall boundariees on the g
ground forr example a field or w woodland edge. It
is e
essential too define bo
oundaries that can beb located both on thhe ground and on
map ps to avoiid confusioon about tthe exact location anda to asssist later surveys.’
‘Caare should be taken notn to incluude significant areass of land wwhich do not meet
the selection guidelines s. Howeve er it may be
b necess sary for thhe future viability
v
of tthe site to include some
s habiitat that is
s of lesser value (autthors emphasis).’

As shown ab bove, Wisleey Airfield SNCI (ass surveyed d in 2016)) comprise


es three
sepparate but connected d units, Sn nakes Field
d, Stratford Bridge W
Wood and Wisley
Airffield, which
h taken tog
gether commbine into a single SNNCI unit.

Straatford Briddge Wood was survveyed in addition


a to that of thhe existingg SNCI
bouundary as it was within the sa ame ownerrship and access
a waas provided along
with
h the rest of the Aiirfield. Th his area iss then prooposed forr inclusionn to the
exissting SNC CI, as shoown on o our Figure 3, for its SNCI fe features (ii.e. wet
woo odland). Only
O this part of thee wood was
w surveyyed as pe rmission wasw not
souught at thiss time for the contig
guous woodland dow wnstream tto the eastt of this
stre
etch toward ds Bridge End, nor for the sttream north of the A A3 parallel to Mill
Lanne. SWT ES E will proppose to the
e Local Sittes Partnerrship that w
we seek Guildford
G
Borrough Councils perm mission to ffind the lan
ndowners for
f this secction of wooodland
andd that theyy are app proached tto see if they woulld be williing to hav ve their
woo odland surveyed at the optim mum time and repo ort back tto LSP as s to its
suittability for an SNCI extension n. The ch hanges su uggested aare to reflect the
addditional wett Alder woodland and d as such is a UK BAP Priorityy Habitat / Habitat
of P
Principal Immportance (HPI).

Bouundaries of
o some fe eatures we ere not originally shoown on thhe GIS bas se map
howwever, thiss has cha anged, ass such th he followin
ng changees on und derlying
ordinance surrvey base map are re ecommend ded. The garden
g areeas around
d Mount
Pleasant Cotttages and Wildernesss Cottage are remov ved, as theey are deem
med not
to b
be of sufficcient qualitty to be in cluded in the SNCI and can bbe easily reemoved
duee to the ow
wnership bo oundaries a and bound daries on th
he GIS maap layer.

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Sig
gns of da
amage
Theere is some
e evidencee of spoil a
and during the course
e of the su rvey large piles of
tyre
es were put across th
he runway.

Cu
urrent site
e manag
gement
The
e majority of the site
e is manag
ged as ara able fields. The restt of the site is left
unm
managed, except
e for Snakes Fi eld, which is manageed by Surrrey Wildlife
e Trust.

Ma
anageme
ent advice

Woodland
In o
order to maximise
m the
t biodive
ersity of woodland,
w it is impoortant to create
c a
dive
erse structture. This will include
e a canopyy of mature trees, a shrub laye
er and a
proportion of open
o spacce. Trees sshould be of a range of ages annd speciess.

Thee presence e of decaying wood w within wooodland is very importtant for a range
r of
speecies, particcularly fungi, inverteb
brates andd mammals s such as bbats. A mixture of
stannding and fallen dea adwood iss importantt as they provide diifferent conditions
andd support different
d species. O Only fell de
ead trees where
w neccessary for health
andd safety re
easons and d if possib
ble only remove the dangerouss branches s rather
thann the whole tree.

When carrying out work k in woodl ands it is best to avoid the birrd nesting season
(Maarch-Augusst) and to avoid carrrying out work when the grouund is parrticularly
softt to avoid damagingg the soil. Whereve er possible
e avoid pllanting as natural
regeneration of
o woodlannd is most beneficial to the loca
al ecology.

Wet Woodland
Wet woodland d is often found by sstreams an
nd other water
w bodiees and is normally
n
domminated byy Ash, Aldeer and Will ow specie
es. It often
n supports an interes
sting but
frag
gile ground
d flora and invertebra
ate assembblage.

Thiss type of woodland is often b best left un


ndisturbed as managgement work can
eassily damagge their fra
agile soils. Natural processes will lead to trees reeaching
matturity and dying naturally thu us creatingg gaps in the canoopy. How wever, if
cop
ppicing hass been a feeature of tthe historic
cal manageement of thhe woodla
and, this
sho
ould be conntinued proovided thatt it doesn’t damage th
he ground to much.

Scrrub
Scrrub is oftenn a compo onent of otther habita ats and is often viewwed as a negative
n
elem
ment that needs
n to be
b controlle ed. Howev ver it suppo
orts a widee range of species
andd the tran nsitional zone
z betw
ween scrub b and oth her habitaats is parrticularly
impportant for many spec cies includ ing inverte
ebrates, bre
eeding birdds and reptiles.

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When managing scrub, it is imporrtant to ma aintain struuctural diveersity and a range


of aage classe
es. Rotatio
onal cutting
g can helpp achieve this. Cuttinng the scru ub back
in ssome placees can create a mos aic of scru
ub and grassland. G Grazing also has a
sim
milar effect as
a long as the grazin
ng pressuree is not too
o high.

Neu utral Grasssland


Neu utral grasssland requires active managem ment in order to retainn its conseervation
erest. Witthout management, tall vigoro
inte ous grasse es will domminate annd dead
plan nt matter will
w accumu ulate. Thiss will supprress the less vigorouus species and the
bota anical divversity of the grasssland will decrease. The kkey to ma anaging
grasslands is to remove e each yea ar’s growthh of vegetaation. Thiss can be achieved
by g grazing (as in traditio
onal pastu
ureland), cu utting or a combinatiion of the two (as
in trraditional hay
h meado ows).

When grazing g, aim to keep


k a rela
atively ope
en sward without
w exccessive pooaching.
Thee timing of grazing off pastures w will depend on local conditionss and the needs
n of
partticular spe
ecies on thee site. Ligh
ht trampling is good asa it providdes bare areas for
seeed germina ation.
Hayy meadow ws are cut traditionallly in early July afterr ground nnesting birdds have
fled
dged and most
m plants
s have set seed. This may nee ed to be addjusted if th
here are
somme importa ant plants that
t set seeed later. Following the cut, thhe arisings s should
be removed. If possible e the grasssland shou uld then bee aftermathh grazed until
u late
autuumn.

Som
me trees and
a scrub are an imp portant component ofo grasslannd habitats
s. They
sho
ould howevver be conffined to sm
mall scatterred groups.

Ara
able
The
e following informatio
on is taken
n from the Arable Plants of Laangley Vale
e (King,
201
14).

Araable plants are annuaals, and the


erefore req
quire regular disturbaance to creeate the
bare ground they
t need for their sseeds to germinate. Historicallyy this distu
urbance
hass been provvided by th
he annual cycles of cultivation
c associatedd with arab ble crop
hussbandry. Depending
D on the sppecies, somme arable plant will sset seed reelatively
early in the year (Sum mmer) wh ile others will set seed
s laterr, in the Autumn.
A
Dep pending onn the prevailing weaather conditions, the seeds of ssome spec cies will
germinate in the
t Autumn n and overr-winter as seedlings, while othhers will ge
erminate
in th
he Spring.

Theere should be no app plication of Nitrogen fertiliser


f or any herbiccide use; and
a
therre should be
b a cultivaated unsow wn margin left along the edge oof the crop, as
well as an unccultivated margin
m by the hedgee.

It iss not necessary to plant


p a cropp, to proviide the con nditions foor arable plants
p to
grow w. If a cro
op is going to be plan
nted, it is essential
e that it is a “t raditional” variety,
and d that it is not planted too denssely. It should be planted in thhe Spring, and no

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fertiliser or herbicide
h should
s be applied. When a crop has been harrvested,
stubbbles shouuld be left over
o winterr.

Givven the righ


ht condition
ns, arable plants will occur thro
oughout thee area of arable
a
field
ds, but whe
ere they suurvive theyy tend to be
e concentrrated alongg field edge
es, as
is th
he case at Wisley Airrfield.

Where a field margin is maintaine ed for its arrable plants


s, it shouldd be large enough
to eenable maanagementt by moderrn farm machinery. It should also be re elatively
unsshaded, an nd form pa art of a se
equence of habitats. The exaact width of o these
strip
ps can varry, but the uncultivatted strip sh a least 100m wide to enable
hould be at
arable plant assemblag
a ges to devvelop and for particu ularly threaatened spe ecies to
incrrease theirr population
ns.

asive speccies
Inva

Jappanese Kno otweed


Thiss is a verry invasive e species wwhich will spread ra apidly if noot controlle
ed. The
speecies is lissted on Sc chedule 9 the Wildlife and Countrysidee Act 1981 1 which
mea ans that itt is an offe
ence to pla
ant or cau use the spe ecies to sppread in thhe wild.
Carre should beb taken if moving th he species off site forr disposal. The Envirronment
Ageency (EA) have pro oduced ‘T
The Knotw weed Code e of Pracctice’ (EA, 2013).
Alth
hough this is aimed at develo opers it coontains a lot of usefful informa ation on
conntrolling thiss species. This and other inforrmation can be foundd on their website.
w

Him
malayan Ba alsam
Thiss species should
s be controlled as it is verry invasivee and will reeduce species
dive
ersity. It iss importantt that it doe
es not spre ead further particularlly into the ditches
on tthe site. This
T speciees will requ ire on-goin ng control by
b pulling oor cutting
annnually before it sets seed.
s The species is listed on Schedule
S 9 the Wildlife and
Couuntryside ActA 1981 which
w mean ns that it is an offence
e to plant oor cause thhe
speecies to sprread in thee wild. Care e should be taken if moving
m thee species off
o site
for disposal.

Potential grant aid


and’s Magiic Interacti ve Mappin
Nattural Engla ng website
e (http://maagic.defra.g
gov.uk/)
sug
ggests thatt the site is
s not curre
ently coverred by an Environme
E ental Stewa ardship,
Woodland Gra ant Schem me or Coun ntryside Steewardship grant.

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H
Higher plantt list

 Abundan nce uses the DAFOR


D system; (Locally) Dom minant, Abunda ant, Frequent, Occasional,
O Ra
are
 Plants ra
anked ‘rare’ mean
m that they were not foun nd often over this site and do oes not neces ssarily indicate that they are a
National or County Rarrity
 Relevant supplementary species info ormation has be een included in
n Table 3 for th
he SNCI review w process as hiistorical contexxt.
It has be
een made clea ar when the lasst record was m made. It is knoown, especiallyy in the case ofo arable weeds s, that seed caan
sometimmes remain dorm mant, for severral years only tto come back frrom the seed bank
b when conditions change e.
 When th his report was being written, additional reco ords were suppplied by a locaal recorder (Su urrey Botanicaal Society (SBS S)
memberr), who visited the
t site indepen ndently using P Public Rights of
o Way. A majo ority of the speccies were for Snakes
S Field.
1
Species typicaal of grassland of conservatio on interest in Surrey (as listed
d in Guidance forf the Selectioon of SNCIs in Surrey,
S May
2
2008). The num mber of bold sppecies within th his list should a
also be noted separately.
s
2
Surrey Axioph hyte Plant Spec cies (as listed o
on the Draft Su urrey Axiopyhtee List 2014), wh hich are knownn to be ‘worthy’’ plants and are
e
p
plants indicative
e of habitats th
hat need to be cconserved. Axxiophytes do no ot currently form
m part of the SNCI guidelines s, however they y
a
are included heere as they prov vide an indication of the wide er value of the site.
s
3
Species that a
are Rare, Scarcce or of Conse ervation Interesst in Surrey (as listed on the Draft
D Surrey Coounty Rare Plan
nt Register Octt
2
2016), also thosse on the GB / England Red Data List of Pla ants.
4
Ancient Wood dland Indicator species (as lissted for the Natture Conservan ncy Council So outh-East Regioon, see Rose 2006)
2
5
Invasive speccies;
- Schedule e 9: Sp
pecies as listed d on Schedule 9 of the Wildlifee and Countrys side Act (1981,, as amended)..
- Plantlife,, 2010: Sp
pecies identified d as Critical, U
Urgent or Moderate risk within Here Today, Gone
G Tomorrow
w? Horizon
- Sc
canning for Inva asive Non-nativve
Pla
ants (Plantlife, 2010).
- SWT, 20 012: Sp
pecies listed within Surrey No on-native Invasive Species Lis st (SWT, 2012)).

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6
Important Arable Plant Areas based on critteria in Append
dix 2 of Plantlife
e’s Important Arable
A Plant Are
eas project (By
yfield & Wilson,
2
2005).

T
Table 2: Plan
nt Species Recorded
R in 2016
Scientific Name Common Nam
me DAFOR* Gra
assland Axiophytes2 Countty Ancieent ve
Invasiv
Notabble, GBRL
Ind
dicator / Englland Red
Wood dland speciess5
Speecies1 Data Lists
L ators4
Indica
3
(ERL)
Acer campestre Field Maple R  
Acer platanoides Norway Maple R
Acer pseudoplata anus Sycamore R 
Achillea millefoliu
um Yarrow R
Aesculus hippoca astanum Horse-chestnu ut R
Agrimonia eupato oria Agrimony R
Agrostis capillariss Common Bentt R
Agrostis stolonifeera Creeping Bentt R
Aira caryophylle ea Silver Hair-graass R   VC17 Scarce
Aira praecox Early Hair-grasss R  
Ajuga reptans Bugle R
Alnus glutinosa Alder LA
Anagallis arvensiis Scarlet Pimperrnel R
Anchusa arvensiss Bugloss R  
Anisantha diandrra Great Brome R
Anisantha steriliss Barren Brome R
Anthoxanthum od doratum Sweet Vernal G Grass R 
Anthriscus sylvesstris Cow Parsley R
Aphanes arvensiis Parsley-piert R
Aphanes inexspe ectata Slender Parsleey-piert R  
Arabidopsis thalia ana Thale Cress R
Arctium lappa Greater Burdocck R
Arctium minus Lesser Burdocck R
Arenaria serpylliffolia Thyme-leaved Sandwort R  

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Scientific Name Common Nam


me DAFOR* Gra
assland Axiophytes2 Countty Ancieent ve
Invasiv
Notabble, GBRL
Ind
dicator / Englland Red
Wood dland speciess5
Speecies1 Data Lists
L ators4
Indica
3
(ERL)
As above,
Arenaria serpylliffolia ssp. cou
unted as
serpyllifolia a thyme-leaved d sandwort R one
e
Arrhenatherum e elatius False Oat-grasss R
Artemisia vulgariss Mugwort R
Arum maculatum m Lords-and-ladies R
Barbarea vulgariss Winter-cress R
Bellis perennis Daisy R
Betula pendula Silver Birch R
Brachypodium syylvaticum False-brome R
Bromopsis ramossa Hairy Brome R  
Bromus hordeace eus Soft-brome R
Bryonia dioica White Bryony R
Buddleja davidii Butterfly-bush LF
Capsella bursa-p pastoris Shepherd's-pu urse R
Cardamine hirsutta Hairy Bitter-cre
ess R
Carduus crispus Welted Thistle R
Carex divulsa ssp p. divulsa Grey Sedge R
Carex hirta Hairy Sedge R
Carex muricata sssp. pairae Prickly Sedge R 
Carex pendula Pendulous Sed dge R  
Carex remota Remote Sedge e R  
Carpinus betuluss Hornbeam R  
Castanea sativa Sweet Chestnu ut R
Centaurea nigra Common Knap pweed R
Centaurium eryth hraea Common Centtaury R 
Cerastium fontan num Common Mousse-ear R
Cerastium glome eratum Sticky Mouse-e ear R
Cerastium semiidecandrum Little Mouse-e ear R  

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Scientific Name Common Nam


me DAFOR* Gra
assland Axiophytes2 Countty Ancieent ve
Invasiv
Notabble, GBRL
Ind
dicator / Englland Red
Wood dland speciess5
Speecies1 Data Lists
L ators4
Indica
3
(ERL)
Chaerophyllum te emulum Rough Chervil R 
Chamerion angusstifolium Rosebay Willowherb R
Chenopodium alb bum Fat-hen R
Circaea lutetianaa Enchanter's-nightshade R
Cirsium arvense Creeping Thisttle R
Cirsium vulgare Spear Thistle R
Clinopodium vulg gare Wild Basil R  
Conium maculatu um Hemlock LA
Convolvulus arve ensis Field Bindweed d R
Conyza canaden nsis Canadian Flea abane R
Conyza floribund da Bilbao’s Fleabaane R
Cornus sanguine ea Dogwood R
Coronopus didym mus Lesser Swine-ccress R
Corylus avellana Hazel R
Crassula helmsii New Zealand P Pigmyweed R Schedu
ule 9
Crataegus monog gyna Hawthorn R
Crepis capillaris Smooth Hawk's-beard R
Dactylorhiza pra aetermissa Southern Marrsh-orchid R  
Datura stramoniu um Thorn-apple R
Dipsacus fullonum m Wild Teasel R
Dryopteris filix-mas Common Male e Fern R
Eleocharis palusttris Common Spike e-rush R
Elymus caninus Bearded Coucch R  
Epilobium ciliatumm American Willoowherb R
Epilobium hirsutu um Great Willowhe erb R
Epilobium montanum Broad-leaved WWillowherb R
Epilobium tetrago onum Square-stalkedd Willowherb R 
Epipactis helleboorine Broad-leaved HHelleborine R  
Equisetum arven nse Field Horsetail R

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Scientific Name Common Nam


me DAFOR* Gra
assland Axiophytes2 Countty Ancieent ve
Invasiv
Notabble, GBRL
Ind
dicator / Englland Red
Wood dland speciess5
Speecies1 Data Lists
L ators4
Indica
3
(ERL)
Equisetum palusttre Marsh Horseta
ail R  
Erodium cicutariu
um Common Storkk's-bill R 
Erophila verna Common Whitlow-grass R 
As above,
cou
unted as
Erophila verna sssp. verna a common whiitlowgrass R one
e.
Euphorbia amygd daloides Wood Spurge R  
Fagus sylvatica Beech R
Fallopia convolvu
ulus Black Bindwee
ed R
Festuca rubra Red Fescue R
 GBRLL: Near
Filago vulgaris Common Cudw weed R Threattened
Fraxinus excelsio
or Ash R
Fumaria officinaliis Common Fumitory R
Galeopsis tetrahiit Common Hem mp-nettle R
Galium aparine Cleavers R
Galium palustre Common Marssh-bedstraw R 
Geranium dissecctum Cut-leaved Craane's-bill R
Geranium molle Dove's-foot Crane's-bill R
Geranium pusilluum Small-floweredd Crane's-bill R
Geranium robertiianum Herb-Robert R
Geum urbanum Herb Bennet R
Glechoma hedera racea Ground-ivy R
Gnaphalium uligiinosum Marsh Cudwee ed R
Hedera helix ssp. helix Common Ivy R
Heracleum sphon ndylium Hogweed R
Holcus lanatus Yorkshire-fog R
Hordeum murinum Wall Barley R
Humulus lupulus Hop R
Hyacinthoides noon-scripta Bluebell R  

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Scientific Name Common Nam


me DAFOR* Gra
assland Axiophytes2 Countty Ancieent ve
Invasiv
Notabble, GBRL
Ind
dicator / Englland Red
Wood dland speciess5
Speecies1 Data Lists
L ators4
Indica
3
(ERL)
Hypericum hirsuttum Hairy St. John''s-wort R
Hypericum humiffusum Trailing St. Joh
hn's-wort R  
Hypericum perforratum Perforate St. John's-wort R
Hypericum tetrap pterum Square-stalked d St. John's-wort R  
Hypochaeris radiicata Cat's-ear R
Ilex aquifolium Holly R  
Impatiens glandu ulifera Himalayan Ballsam LF Schedu
ule 9
Impatiens parviflo ora Small Balsam R
Iris foetidissima Stinking Iris R  
Juncus acutifloru us Sharp-flowered d Rush R  
Juncus articulatu us Jointed Rush R  
Juncus bufonius Toad Rush R
Juncus conglome eratus Compact Rush h R
Juncus effusus Soft Rush R
Juncus inflexus Hard Rush R
Juncus tenuis Slender Rush R
Kickxia elatine Sharp-leaved F Fluellen R
Lactuca serriola Prickly Lettucee R
Lactuca virosa Greater Lettucce R
Lamium album White Dead-ne ettle R
Lamium purpureu um Red Dead-netttle R
Lapsana commun nis Nipplewort R
Leontodon hispid dus Rough Hawkbiit R 
Leontodon saxatiilis Lesser Hawkbit R  
Leucanthemum vvulgare Oxeye Daisy R 
Ligustrum ovalifo olium Garden Privet R
Lolium perenne Perennial Rye--grass R
Lotus corniculatu us Common Bird'ss-foot-trefoil R 
Luzula campestriis Field Wood-russh R

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urveys 2016: E
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Scientific Name Common Nam


me DAFOR* Gra
assland Axiophytes2 Countty Ancieent ve
Invasiv
Notabble, GBRL
Ind
dicator / Englland Red
Wood dland speciess5
Speecies1 Data Lists
L ators4
Indica
3
(ERL)
Lycopus europae eus Gipsywort R
Malva moschata Musk-mallow R
Malva neglecta Dwarf Mallow R
Malva sylvestris Common Mallo ow R
Matricaria recutita
a Scented Maywweed R
Medicago arabica a Spotted Medicck R
Medicago lupulinna Black Medick R
Mentha aquatica Water Mint R
Montia fontana s ssp.  
chondrosperma a Blinks R
Myosotis arvensiis Field Forget-m
me-not R
Myosotis discolorr Changing Forg get-me-not R  
Myosotis ramosisssima Early Forget-m
me-not R  
Odontites vernuss Red Bartsia R 
Oenanthe crocata a Hemlock Wate er-dropwort R
Oenothera biennis Common Even ning-primrose R
Large-floweredd Evening-
Oenothera glazio oviana primrose R
Oenothera sp. an evening primmrose R
Ornithopus perpu usillus Bird's-foot R  
Papaver rhoeas Common Popp py R
Pastinaca sativa Wild Parsnip R
Pentaglottis semp pervirens Green Alkanett R
Persicaria hydroppiper Water-pepper R
Persicaria maculo osa Redshank R
Phalaris arundinaacea Reed Canary-g grass R
Phleum bertoloniii Smaller Cat's-ttail R 
Picris echioides Bristly Oxtonguue R
Pinus sylvestris Scots Pine R

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urveys 2016: E
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Scientific Name Common Nam


me DAFOR* Gra
assland Axiophytes2 Countty Ancieent ve
Invasiv
Notabble, GBRL
Ind
dicator / Englland Red
Wood dland speciess5
Speecies1 Data Lists
L ators4
Indica
3
(ERL)
Plantago coronoppus Buck's-horn Plantain R  
Plantago lanceola
ata Ribwort Planta
ain R
Plantago major Greater Planta
ain R
Poa annua Annual Meado ow-grass R
Poa trivialis Rough Meadow w-grass R
Polygonum arena astrum Equal-leaved K
Knotgrass R
Polygonum avicuulare Knotgrass R
Populus tremula Aspen R  
  ERL: Near
N
Potentilla erecta Tormentil R Threattened
Potentilla reptanss Creeping Cinquefoil R
Potentilla x mixta
a Hybrid Cinqueffoil R
Prunella vulgaris Selfheal R
Prunus spinosa Blackthorn R
Pteridium aquilinuum Bracken LF
Pulicaria dysenteerica Common Fleab bane R
Quercus robur Pedunculate O
Oak R
Ranunculus repe ens Creeping Butte
ercup R
Reseda luteola Weld R
Ribes rubrum Red Currant R  
Rosa canina agg g. Dog Rose R
Rosa sp. a rose R
Rubus fruticosus agg. Bramble LA
Rumex acetosa Common Sorre el R  
Rumex acetosella a Sheep's Sorrell R 
Rumex conglome eratus Clustered Dock R
Rumex crispus Curled Dock R
Rumex obtusifoliu us Broad-leaved D
Dock R
Rumex sanguine eus var. viridis a wood dock R

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urveys 2016: E
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Scientific Name Common Nam


me DAFOR* Gra
assland Axiophytes2 Countty Ancieent ve
Invasiv
Notabble, GBRL
Ind
dicator / Englland Red
Wood dland speciess5
Speecies1 Data Lists
L ators4
Indica
3
(ERL)
Sagina apetala (cc.f. erecta) =
Sagina filicaulis Annual Pearlwwort R
Sagina procumbe ens Procumbent Pe earlwort R
Salix caprea Goat Willow R
Salix cinerea ssp p. oleifolia a willow R
Sambucus nigra Elder R
Saxifraga tridactyylites Rue-leaved Sa axifrage R 
Schedonorous g giganteus Giant Fescue R  
Scrophularia auriiculata Water Figwort R
Scrophularia nod dosa Common Figw wort R
Sedum acre Biting Stonecro
op LA  
Senecio erucifoliu us Hoary Ragworrt R
Senecio jacobaea a Common Ragw wort R
Senecio vulgaris Groundsel R
Silene dioica Red Campion R
Silene latifolia White Campion n R
Sisymbrium officiinale Hedge Mustard d R
Solanum dulcamara Bittersweet R
Solanum nigrum Black Nightshaade R
Sonchus asper Prickly Sow-thistle R
Sonchus oleraceus Smooth Sow-th histle R
Sorbus aucuparia a Rowan R
 GBRLL:
Spergula arvensiis Corn Spurrey R Vulnerrable
Spergularia rubraa Sand Spurrey R  
Stachys sylvaticaa Hedge Woundwort R
Stellaria gramineea Lesser Stitchw
wort R 
Stellaria holostea
a Greater Stitchw
wort R
Stellaria media agg. Chickweed R

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Scientific Name Common Nam


me DAFOR* Gra
assland Axiophytes2 Countty Ancieent ve
Invasiv
Notabble, GBRL
Ind
dicator / Englland Red
Wood dland speciess5
Speecies1 Data Lists
L ators4
Indica
3
(ERL)
Symphytum officiinale Common Com mfrey R
Taraxacum sp. Dandelion aggg. R
Teucrium scorod donia Wood Sage R
Tilia cordata x pla
atyphyllos Common Lime e R
Torilis japonica Upright Hedgee-parsley R
Torilis nodosa Knotted Hedg ge-parsley R  
Tragopogon prate ensis ssp. minor Goat's-beard R 
Trifolium arvensee Hare's-foot Cloover R  
Trifolium dubium Lesser Trefoil R
Trifolium pratense Red Clover R
Trifolium repens White Clover R
Tripleurospermum m inodorum Scentless Mayyweed R
Typha latifolia Bulrush R
Ulex europaeus Gorse R
Ulmus procera English Elm R
Urtica dioica Common Nettle R
Urtica urens Small Nettle R
Valerianella locussta Common Corn nsalad R
Verbascum thapssus Great Mullein R
Verbena officinallis Vervain R 
Veronica arvensiis Wall Speedwell R
Veronica chamae edrys Germander Sp peedwell R
Veronica hederifo olia Ivy-leaved Speeedwell R
Veronica persica Common Field d-speedwell R
Veronica serpylliffolia Thyme-leaved Speedwell R
Vicia cracca Tufted Vetch R
Vicia sativa ssp. nigra Narrow-leaved d Vetch R
Vicia tetrasperma a Smooth Tare R
Viola arvensis Field Pansy R

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Scientific Name Common Nam


me DAFOR* Gra
assland Axiophytes2 Countty Ancieent ve
Invasiv
Notabble, GBRL
Ind
dicator / Englland Red
Wood dland speciess5
Speecies1 Data Lists
L ators4
Indica
3
(ERL)
Vulpia bromoidess Squirrel-tail Fe
escue R 
Vulpia myuros Rat's-tail Fescuue R
Total 249 Tottal:40 Axio
ophytes; GBRLL 14 Schedu
ule 9: 2
Vulnerrable: 1
No. of bold:5 45
GBRLL Near
Threattened: 1
ERL Near
N
Threattened: 1
VC17 Scarce: 1

T
Table 3: All R
Recorded Plants with C
Conservation
n Status
Scientific Name Common Grassland Axiophytes2
A Cou
unty Notable, IA
APA Date of
o Last ors Comments EPR
Surveyo E 2015 and
GBRL / England 6
Name Indicator d Data Lists
Red
Score
S Knownn SWT 20016
Species1 (ER
RL)
3 Recordd
Adoxa Moschatel 
moschatellina
Aethusa Fool’s  19.7.20
006
cynaphium Parsley
ssp.agrestis
Aira Silver Hair-   VC1
17 Scarce Summeer EPR: No ot seen on the 2015 survey. Only
caryophyllea grass 2016 small areas of habitat with
h potential for
this spec
cies at the westerrn end of the
runway.
SWT: Recorded in the 20 016 survey,
western end of the runwa ay.
Aira praecox Early Hair-   Summe er SWT: Fo ound in western end
e of airstrip in
grass 2016 short gra
assland in 2016. New
N Record.
Alopecurus Marsh   18.6.20
005
geniculatus Foxtail

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Red
Score
S Knownn SWT 20016
Species1 (ER
RL)
3 Recordd
Anchusa arvensiss Bugloss   1 Summe er SWT: Fo ound on 2016 acrross the site on
2016 field/airs
strip edges
Anthoxanthum Sweet  Summe er SWT: New Record.
aodoratum Vernal- 2016
grass
Apera spica-ventti Loose  GBRRL Near 6 11.7.20
014 EPR: No ot seen in 2015 bu
ut almost
Thre
eatened / VC17
Silky-bent certainlyy still present.
Sca
arce
SWT: Ag greed, not seen in
n 2016.
Aphanes australiis Slender   1 Summeer SWT: Recorded in 2016 in western end of
Parsley- 2016 airstrip.
piert
Arabis hirsuta Hairy   ERLL: Near 18.5.20
014 SWT: Not seen during the e 2016 survey,
Thre
eatened / VC17
Rock- but given that it has been seen in the last
Sca
arce
cress couple of
o years there is potential for it to
reappea ar, particularly in th
he western end
of the ru
unway.
Arenaria Slender  19.7.20
006
leptoclados Sandwort
Arenaria Thyme-   Summeer SWT: Fo ound in 2016 veryy locally
leptocladas leaved 2016 scattered across the site on airstrip.
Sandwort
Carduus nutans Musk  11.7.20
014 EPR: Se een in 2016 but no
ot recorded as
Thistle on Bridgge End Farm field margin just
outside boundary
Carex muricata Prickly  Summe er SWT: Fo ound in 2016 in th
he grassland on
ssp. lamprocarpa
a Sedge 2016 edge of Stratford Bridge Wood.
W
Carex panuculata
a Greater   18.10.1
1965 SWT: Habitat in wet Alder wood is
Tussock- suitable, so may yet appeear again.
sedge
Centaurea cyanu
us Cornflower  UK BAP Priority 8 14.7.20
014 & EPR: No
ot found on the EPPR 2015 survey.
ecies & Species
Spe
seen SWT: Not seen during 20016 survey, but

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Name Indicator Redd Data Lists
Score
S Known n SWT 20016
Species1 (ERRL)
3 Record d
of P
Principal Summe er seen this year by local rec
corder and in
Impportance (SPI) /
2016 by
b local good nuumbers last year (ppers. comm.).
VC1 17 Rare
recordeer
Centaurium Common  Summe er SWT: Seeen scattered acrross the site,
erythraea Centaury 2016 although
h overall rare.
Centaurium Lesser  11.7.20
014
pulchellum Centaury
Cerastium Little   Summe er SWT: Recorded in the short sward,
semidecandrum m Mouse-ear 2016 western end of runway.
Chaerophyllum Rough  28.8.20
015
temulum Chervil
Clinopodium Wild Basil   Summeer
vulfare 2016
Dactylorhiza Southern   Summeer SWT: Poopulation recorded in grassland
praetermissa Marsh- 2016 on edge
e of Stratford Bridg
ge Wood.
orchid
Square-  Summeer
Epilobium stalked 2016
tetragonum Willowherb
Equisetum Marsh   Summeer SWT: Fo
ound in Stratford Bridge Wood.
palustre Horsetail 2016
Erigeron acris Blue  
Fleabane
Erodium Common  1 Summe er SWT: Sc cattered across thhe runway and
cicutarium Stork’s-bill 2016 short sw
wards.
Euphrasia Common   ERLL: Near 4.10.15
5 SWT: Sn nakes Field seen by local
Thre
eatened
nemorsa Eyebright recorderr.
Filago lutescens
s Red-tipped   GBR
RL: Endangered 8 Not EPR: La ast record for this species was
re
ecorded
Cudweed 1968. Itt was searched for in 2015 but no
since
s 1968
– score cudweed ds were seen. Almost certainly
not
n extinct th
hough there is a slight
s possibility

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Name Indicator d Data Lists
Red
Score
S Knownn SWT 20016
Species1 (ER
RL)
3 Recordd
in
ncluded of surviv
val in the seed bannk though
publisheed work indicated that it probably
has a shhort seed life.
SWT: Ag greed, not seen in
n 2016.
Filago vulgaris Common  GBRRL: Near 6 Summeer EPR: Th he 2015 fieldwork searched for this
Thre
eatened
Cudweed 2016 species but none was fou und. Suitable
habitat is present on site west
w of the
runway.
SWT: Recorded in 2016 survey
s in two
patches south of centre. Also seen by
local rec
corder in another location
l towards
the westtern end of runwa ay.
Fumaria muralis Common  VC1
17 Scarce Summeer SWT: Not seen during survey, but
ssp. bBordei Ramping 2016 recorded d by local recorde
er.
Fumitory
Common  Summeer
Marsh- 2016
Galium palustre bedstraw
Small- 2
Geranium flowered
pusillum Crane’s-bill
Gnaphalium Heath   GBR
RL: Endangered EPR: Th he SBS record forr this species is a
sylvaticum Cudweed square that
t is largely in thhe Elm Corner
Woods SNCI,
S with only a small part in the
Wisley Airfield
A site itself and
a then on the
anding. No Heath Cudweed was
hard sta
seen on the 2015 survey.. There is no
suitable habitat in the SBS S recorded
square for
f this species 20 015 survey work
recordedd this species on several historic
boundarries within the airffield site.

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Red
Score
S Knownn SWT 20016
Species1 (ER
RL)
3 Recordd
SWT: As
s above, not seen
n in 2016.
Hypericum Trailing St.   Summeer SWT: Se
een on the arable
e field edges.
humifusum John’s-wort 2016
Square-   Summeer
Hypericum stalked St. 2016
tetrapterum John’s-wort
Sharp-   Summeer SWT: Fo ound in wet flushe
es and
flowered 2016 depressions in tarmac bloock west of Elm
Juncus acutifloru
us Rush Corner.
  Summeer SWT: Fo ound in wet flushe
es and
Jointed 2016 depressions in tarmac bloock west of Elm
Juncus articulatu
us Rush Corner.
Sharp- 2 Summeer SWT: Fo ound once during the 2016
flowered 2016 survey, western
w end of the runway.
Kickxia elatine Fluellen
Lamium Henbit  31.5.19
989 SWT: Not seen during the e 2016 survey
amplexicaule Dead-nettle and not recorded for 27 years,
y maybe
overlook ked and / or possible seed bank
still pres
sent.
Lathyrus Meadow   19.6.20
005 SWT: Not seen during the e 2016 survey,
pratensis Vetchling likely to still be present in the longer grass
to the west of the site.
Leontodon Rough  Summeer
hispidus Hawkbit 2016
Leontodon Lesser   Summeer
saxatilis Hawkbit 2016
Leucanthemum Oxeye  Summeer
vulgare Daisy 2016
Common  Summeer SWT: Common on short sward
s and
Bird's-foot- 2016 cracks in
n runway.
Lotus corniculatu
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Red
Score
S Knownn SWT 20016
Species1 (ER
RL)
3 Recordd
Malva neglecta Dwarf 2 Summe er
Mallow 2016
  Summe er SWT: Recorded in 2016 ono short sward
Montia fontana Blinks 2016 western end of runway.
Changing   Summe er SWT: Sccattered over short sward and
Forget-me- 2016 runway.
Myosotis discolorr not
Early   Summeer SWT: Sccattered over short sward and
Myosotis Forget-me- 2016 runway.
ramosissima not
 Summe er
Odontites vernuss Red Bartsia 2016
Odontities vernuss As above 28.7.20
010 SWT: Se een in Snakes Fie
eld by local
ssp. serotina) Red Bartsia recorderr.
Ophrys apifera Bee Orchid   9.6.199
93
Origanum vulgarere Wild  30.7.20
009 SWT: Se een in Snakes Fie
eld by local
Marjoram recorderr.
Ornithopus Bird’s-foot   Summe er
perpusillus 2016
Papaver dubium Long- 2 (if ssp. 19.7.20
006
agg. headed le
ecoquii)
Poppy
Parentucellia Yellow  VC1
17 Rare 19.7.20
006 EPR: Th his species was noot seen on the
viscosa Bartisa 2015 survey. It may still be
b present. The
grasslannd areas are becooming more rank
and lesss disturbed and this may not
favour th
he species.
SWT: As s above, not seenn in 2016.
Phleum bertoloniii Smaller 
Cat’s-tail
Plantago Buck’s-horn   Summe
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Red
Score
S Knownn SWT 20016
Species1 (ER
RL)
3 Recordd
coronopus Plantain 2016
Poa nemoralis Wood 
Meadow-
grass
Potentilla erecta Tormentil   ERLL Near Summeer SWT: Se een in Snakes Fie
eld by local
Threeatened / VC17
2016 recorderr
Rarre
Poterium Salad  31.5.19
989
sanguisorba Burnet
Primula vulgaris Primrose   19.7.20
006
Rhinanthus mino or Yellow-   2.6.201
10 SWT: Se een in Snakes Fie
eld by local
rattle recorderr.
Rosa arvensis Field Rose  Summe er
2016
Rosa micrantha Small-  29.6.20
008
flowered
Sweat-briar
Rumex acetosa Common   Summe er
Sorrel 2016
Rumex acetosella
a Sheep’s  Summe er
Sorrel 2016
Saxifraga Rue-leaved  Summe er SWT: Inn short sward western end of
tridactylites Saxifrage 2016 runway.
Scleranthus Annual   UK BAP Priority 8 4.6.200
07 EPR: No ot seen on the surrvey. Could still
Speecies & Species
annuus Knawel be preseent in the western
n end of the site
of P
Principal
Impportance (SPI) / as growing plants or seedds.
GBR RL: Endangered SWT: Not seen in 2016, comments
c as
above.
Biting   Summe er EPR & SWT:
S Common ac cross the
Sedum acre Stonecrop 2016 runway.
Senecio Heath   19.6.20
006

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Red
Score
S Knownn SWT 20016
Species1 (ER
RL)
3 Recordd
sylvaticus Groundsel
Spergula arvensiis Corn  GBR
RL: Vulnerable 7 Summeer EPR: A common and widespread arable
Spurrey 2016 weed in the southern partt of the county.
SWT: Recorded in 2016 survey
s on
southern
n edge on arable field
f margin.
Spergularia Sand   Summeer
rubra Spurrey 2016
Stellaria gramine
ea Lesser  Summeer
Stitchwort 2016
Torilis nodosa Knotted   3 Summeer EPR: No ot seen on the surrvey. The SBS
Hedge- 2016 location for this species is
s the hard
parsley standingg area north of thee runway.
Probablyy present on the site
s as a casual
ng waste ground. Could still be
colonisin
present as growing plants s or seeds.
SWT: As s above, not seen n in the 2016
survey, but recorded by lo ocal recorder this
year on central airstrip ed
dge.
Tragopogon  Summeer
pratensis ssp. Goat’s- 2016
minor beard
Hare’s-foot   Summe er
Trifolium arvense
e Clover 2016
Trifolium Knotted   11.7.20
014 EPR: Noot seen on the surrvey.
striatum Clover SWT: No longer listed as a Surrey Rare
Plant sp
pecies by the SBS
S. Not seen in
2016.
Verbena Vervain  Summe er
officinalis 2016
Veronica Heath   ERLL: Near 6.10.20
010 SWT: Se een in Snakes Fieeld, path edge by
Thre
eatened
officinalis Speedwell local rec
corder (pers. comm
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o Last ors Comments EPR
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Red
Score
S Knownn SWT 20016
Species1 (ER
RL)
3 Recordd
Veronica montan
na Wood 
Speedwell
Squirrel-tail  Summeer
Vulpia bromoidess Fescue 2016
Total Total: 56 To
otal: 62 UK BAP Priority IA
APA
ecies / SPI :2
Spe
(of which Score:
S
GBRRL Endangered:
11 are in 3 47
4 (33
bold in GBRRL Vulnerable: 1 2016)
2
SNCI GBRRL Near
Thre
eatened: 2
guidelines)
ERLL Near
Thre
eatened: 4
VC117 Rare: 3
VC117 Scarce: 4

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Appendix 1: Habitat guidelines
SSNCI selection Habitat Guidelines (Gibbs, 2
2008), summaryy of results and
d rationale with
h the rationale based upon the findings of th
he
ssurvey.

Habbitat Notes Resultt


1) W
Woodland
a) All sites containing over 5ha of Not pre
esent.
ancie ent semi-natural wwoodland
(ASN NW).
b) Otther ancient wood dland including Not pre
esent.
planttations on ancientt woodland
sitess where there is a significant
elemment of the original semi-natural
wood dland surviving.
c) Arreas of woodland which are not Not pre
esent.
themmselves ancient bu ut which are
imme ediately adjacent to ancient
wood dland sites shouldd also be
conssidered for selectio on.
d) Otther semi-natural woodland
comp prising important ccommunity
typess of restricted disttribution in the
coun nty. This will include;
e) W
Wet woodland fallin ng within NVC Stratford Bridge Wood covering 5.08ha within the la andowner bounda ary, is wet Alder wood.
w Although a full Criteria
a met
typess; W1, W2, W4c, W5, W6 and NVC was not und dertaken, in the o
opinion of the surv
veyor, the woodlan
nd is likely to supp
port W6 and W7 for Stra
atford
W7 communities. 9 Ancient Woodland Indicators (AWI) were recorded here. h Bridge
Wood.
Field Maple
Hairy Brome
Pendulous Sedg
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Remote Sedge

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Bearded Couch
Wood Spurge
Bluebell
Giant Fescue

It is considered tto be a UK BAP P


Priority Habitat / Ha
abitat of Principal Importance (HPI)) and is within a
Biodiversity Opportunity Area (BOOA) RO4 – River Wey W (and tributarie es).
f) Lowland Beech, Yew w and Box Not pre
esent
Woo odland falling withiin NVC types;
W12 2, W13, W14 and W W15
g) WWealden gill woodla and Not pre
esent
h) Sites supporting a ssignificant See Appendix 2.
popu ulation of a specie
es as discussed
in the
e species guidancce.
2) W
Wood Pasture, P
Parkland and Veteran
V Trees
a) W
Wood pasture and parkland over Not pre
esent
2ha w which can demon nstrate 3 or
more e of the features d
defined in the
selecction guidelines (G
Gibbs 2008)
shou uld be considered for selection.
b) Groups of 3 or more e ancient or There are severa al groups of over mmature and maturre trees present of
o the boundary off the site and add value Criteria
a not
veterran trees as defined in the to the site. Theyy have not been described as ancie
ent or veteran, how wever they are ou
ur potential currently
selecction guidelines (G
Gibbs 2008) ancient/veteran ttrees for the future
e. met.
within 0.25ha.
c) Sites which supportt a significant See Appendix 2.
popu ulation of a specie
es as discussed
in the
e species guidancce.
3) Traditional Orch
hards
a) Trraditionally managged orchards of Not pre
esent
biodiiversity value, as d
defined in the
selecction guidelines (G
Gibbs 2008).
b) Sites which supportt a significant See Appendix 2.

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popu ulation of a specie
es as discussed
in the
e species guidancce.
4) Neutral Grasslan
nd
a) All sites supporting the following NVC communitie
es not unlikely to b
be present. See below.
NVC C communities; MG G4, MG5 or
MG8 8.
b) Grassland sites which support a As shown in Tab
ble 3 and Appendix 2 Criteria 24, Snnakes Field meets s the criteria to qu
ualify as an SNCI in its Criteria
a met
high diversity of speciees typical of own right. Howe
ever it was surveyyed here as part of a wider unit and as such contributtes to the site as a for Snaakes
grasssland of conserva ation interest in whole. Field.
Surre ey. As a guidelinee, sites which
supp port 15 or more off the species In addition, in the
e opinion of the su urveyor, the disturrbed grassland tow
wards the western n end of the site is
s likely Criteria
a may
listed
d in Table 1 includ
ding at least 2 to contain popula ations of 15 or mo ore Grassland Indicator Species. EPRE (2017) Techn nical Note 2 sugge ests be met with a
of thee species in bold are likely to be ‘There are small areas of disturbe ed grassland. For example, one is an a area used for the
t A3 works com mpound, restricte
ed
of SNNCI quality. one was used fo or historic landfill, ssome are associaated with ground works
w for building the runway and distribution in
taxiways. There is much imported d material in these
e areas. These grrasslands may ha ave 15 or more ind dicator the wes stern
species in them.’ end of the
t
runway y.
Below are those Grassland Indica
ator Species recorrded during the 20
016 survey for Sna
akes Field. There
e are a
total of 17 (none are bold).

Bugloss
Sweet Vernal Grrass
Wild Basil
Lesser Stitchworrt
Common Eyebrig ght
Yellow Pimperneel
Oxeye Daisy
Rough Hawkbit
Common Bird’s-ffoot Trefoil
Red Bartsia
Wild Marjoram
Bird’s-foot
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Yellow Rattle
Common Sorrel
Sheep’s Sorrel
Heath Speedwelll

Below are those Grassland Indica ator Species recorrded during 2016 from
f Wisley Airfie
eld as a whole (note
species recorded d from Snakes Fieeld or Stratford Brridge Woodland arre not included he ere) total 39 (with 6 bold)
and although the ey have a scattere
ed distribution ove
er the site and oveer several different habitat types (i.e
e. not
necessarily all on
n neutral grasslan
nd) there is a conccentration at the western
w end of thee site.

Silver Hair-grasss – western end


Early Hair-grass – western end
Bugloss – on ara able field edges/aiirstrip edges
Sweet Vernal-gra ass
Slender Parsley--piert – western en nd
Thyme-leaved Sandwort – scatterred across airstrip p edge/western en nd
Common Centau ury – Scattered accross site, rare
Little Mouse-ear – western end
Southern Marsh h-orchid – 20+ in grassland edge of o Stratford Bridge
e Woodland
Square-stalked W Willowherb
Blue Fleabane
Common Stork’ss-bill – scattered aacross runway and d short swards/we estern end
Common Cudwe eed – southern central
Common Marsh--bedstraw – local in damp areas
Small-flowered CCrane’s-bill – westtern end/airstrip
Trailing St. John’s-wort – arable field margin
Square-stalked S St. John’s-wort
Sharp-flowered R Rush – wet depressions Elm Corne er
Jointed Rush – w wet depressions EElm Corner
Rough Hawkbit - scattered
Lesser Hawkbit - scattered
Oxeye Daisy
Common Bird’s-ffoot Trefoil – common short swards s/airstrip/western end

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Blinks – western n end
Changing Forgett-me-not – commo on short swards/aairstrip/western en
nd
Early Forget-me--not – common sh hort swards/airstrip/western end
Red Bartsia – we estern end
Bird’s-foot – wesstern end
Smaller Cat’s-taiil
Buck’s-horn Plan ntain – scattered a
across/western en nd
Common Sorrel – scattered
Sheep’s Sorrel – scattered westerrn end
Biting Stonecropp – very common a across airstrip/western end
Sand Spurrey – southern central
Lesser Stitchworrt
Knotted Hedge--parsley – central airstrip
Goat’s-beard
Hare’s-foot Clove er – western end, southern central
Vervain
c) Sites which supportt a significant See Appendix 2.
popu ulation of a specie
es as discussed
in the
e species guidancce.
5) A
Acidic Grassland
a) All sites supporting the following Sandy swards arre part of the mossaic, and a very sm mall area of U1 is likely to be preseent on the northern
n edge See Criteria
NVCC communities; U1 1, U2, U3, U4 of Snakes Field. However a full N NVC was not carrie ed out. In addition EPR note on their Technical Note e 2 that 4) Neuttral
or U2
20a. whilst they do no
ot consider U1 gra assland is presentt on the site, that they
t do recognisee ‘the open, ephemmeral Grasslaand
vegetation west of the runway is o of conservation intterest.’ section.
b) Grassland sites which support a Several plant speecies on the SNC CI Grassland Spec cies Table 1 with affinities
a to an acid
d grassland have been See above
high diversity of speciees typical of recorded on the site, however as a majority are ass sociated more with h neutral grasslan
nd habitats it is Criteria
a 4)
grasssland of conserva ation interest in discussed in detaail in Criteria 4) Neutral Grassland section. Neutrall
Surre ey. As a guidelinee, sites which Grasslaand
supp port 15 or more off the species categorry.
listed
d in Table 1 includ
ding at least 2
of thee species in bold are likely to be
of SNNCI quality.
c) Sites which supportt a significant See Appendix 2.

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popu ulation of a specie
es as discussed
in the
e species guidancce.
6) C
Calcareous Gras
ssland
a) All sites supporting the following Not pre
esent.
NVC C communities: CG G2, CG3, CG4,
CG5 5, CG6 or CG7.
b) Grassland sites which support a Not preesent
high diversity of speciees typical of as this is not
grasssland of conserva ation interest in a chalkk
Surre ey. As a guidelinee, sites which grasslaand
supp port 15 or more off the species setting.
listed
d in Table 1 includ
ding at least 2
of thee species in bold are likely to be
of SNNCI quality.
c) Sites which supportt a significant See Appendix 2.
popu ulation of a specie
es as discussed
in thee species guidancce.
7) Heathland
a) All areas of heathlaand vegetation; Not pre
esent.
including matrices of d dwarf shrub,
bare ground, grasslan nd, valley mires
and sscrub should be cconsidered.
Heatthland over 2ha w would
automatically qualify.
b) Arreas of heathland which are Not pre
esent.
heavvily afforested or h
have
succceeded to mature woodland with
potential to be restoreed to heathland
and eeither;
 retain sufficientt remnants of
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an integral pa
art of an area of
heathland.
c) Sites which supportt a significant See Appendix 2.
popu ulation of a specie
es as discussed
in the
e species guidancce.
8) Standing open w
water
a) Anny lake classified by the UK Not pre
esent.
Lake es HAP joint steerring group as
Tier 1 or Tier 2 where not already
coveered by other desig gnations.
b) Poonds which qualifyy under the Not pre
esent.
criterria for UK BAP priority habitat.
c) W
Water bodies or clu usters of water See Appendix 2 Criteria 19 c) whe
ere the value of Pond 3 is presented. Criteria
a met,
bodie es which support a significant for Ponnd 3.
popu ulation of a specie
es as discussed
in thee species guidancce.
9) W
Wetlands
a) All reedbeds over 2 2ha. Not pre
esent.
b) Reeedbeds of betwe een 0.25 and Not pre
esent.
2ha wwhere they form p part of a wider
habittat mosaic.
c) Fe
ens, mires, swamp ps and Not pre
esent.
marsshes over 2ha with h flora
charaacteristic of the fo
ollowing NVC
comm munities: M6, M21, M24, M25,
M27, M29, S3, S4, S5 5, S6, S7, S8,
S9, S
S10, S12, S13, S1 14, S15, S16,
S19, S22, S23, S26, S S27, S28.
d) Fe
ens, mires, swamps and Not pre
esent.
marsshes (NVC as abo ove) of between
0.25 and 2ha where th hey form part of
a wid
der habitat mosaicc.

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e) Sites which supportt a significant See Appendix 2.
popu ulation of a specie
es as discussed
in the
e species guidancce.
10) F
Floodplain Gra
azing Marsh
a) All floodplain grazin
ng marsh over Not pre
esent.
5ha tthat is not designaated as SSSI.
b) Floodplain grazing marsh of less Not pre
esent.
than 5ha where it form ms part of a
wideer habitat mosaic oof water-
depe endent habitats, or where it links
SSSIs.
c) Sites which supportt a significant See Appendix 2.
popu ulation of a specie
es as discussed
in the
e species guidancce.
11) R
Rivers, Canals and Streams
a) Ch halk stream. Not pre
esent.
b) Riiver classed by the Environment Not pre
esent.
Agen ncy as Grade A w within the GQA.
c) River with a HMS o of 0 (classified Not pre
esent.
as “ppristine” by RHS).
d) Riiver with a conserrvation Not pre
esent.
evalu uation of either “C
Critical” or
“Important” within stra ategic RCS.
e) Riiver which supporrts viable Not pre
esent.
popu ulations or spawniing sites of
animmals listed in guideelines.
f) Sittes which support a significant See Appendix 2.
popu ulation of a speciees as discussed
in thee species guidancce
12) O
Open Mosaic H
Habitats on Prev
viously Developed Land
a) Open Mosaic habita
at sites where; Sites where 6 or more of the chara acteristic features
s listed (in the SNCCI Guidelines) wo ould qualify as an SNCI Criteria
a met
 6 or more of the for this criteria. T
The relevant featu
ures found on thiss site are Floristic & habitat diversity
y, Soil type and for the

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characteristic features are structure, Topography, Succession, Bare ground an nd Shelter. There e is very good poteential for a signific
cant westernn part
found invertebrate asse emblage, although h the current surv
vey data does not support this last statement.
s The western
w of the site.
s
 form part of a wider complex end of the runwa ay is of potential cconservation intereest for this habitatt type. There are also other areas of o with
of similar area
as, providing characteristic fea
atures scattered a across the rest of the
t site, and whils st on their own are
e not significant, could
c
long term hab bitat opportunity be seen as impo ortant as part of a complex mosaic of o habitats within thet site as a wholle.
 There is a significant
invertebrate aassemblage In addition whenn using the criterria set out in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan Priorrity Habitat Descrriptions:
Open Mosaic Ha abitats on Previou
usly Developed La and (July 2010) itt is suggested tha
at each of the crite
eria are
met, listed below
w:

1 The areaa of open mosaic habitat is over 0.225ha in size.


2 There is a known history o
of disturbance of soil,
s spoil.
3 The sitee contains some e early successio onal communities including annuuals, ruderal and
d open
grasslan
nd.
4 The site contains unvegettated, loose bare substrate and poools may be presen
nt.
5 The site shows spatial varriation, forming a mosaic of commu
unities.

Open mosaic habitats are conssidered UK BAP Priority Habitat / Habitat of Prin ncipal Importance
e (HPI).
e western end off the runway and on the
Although scatterred across the sitte the main areas are towards the
southern boundaary by Hyde Lane (track).
b) Sites which supportt a significant See Table 3 andd Appendix 2 Crite
eria 24.
popu ulation of a specie
es as discussed
in the
e species guidelinnes.
13) A
Arable
a) Meets criteria for Im
mportant Arable The score for tho ose plants seen inn 2016 is calculate
ed to be 33, whichh indicates that the
e site is of Countyy a is
Criteria
Plant Areas and not co overed by Importance. The e overall score forr species found ac
cross the site sinc
ce 1985 is 47, this places it in the ca
ategory met as the
other designation. for qualifying for Plantlife Importan
nt Arable Areas foor Site of UK Impoortance. IAPA sc core
would
The arable weed ed distribution across the
e site do have a restricted, scattere
ds that have been recorded over the sugges st that
whole of the site. Wisley
Airfield is of
Although questioons have been askked as to the ‘arable’ nature of som me of these recordds SWT ES feel th hat the UK /Co ounty
fact that some arre on the site this is an indicator of both current and potential value off this habitat. The Importa ance.

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ephemeral naturre of arable plantss makes evaluation of the distributio on of these speciees in a single yearr The ma ajority
difficult to assesss. Whilst some off these species haave not been seen n in the last few ye
ears, with a little of the
disturbance or co orrect climate con ence in populations. Although it is
nditions there coulld well be resurge recordss have
acknowledged th hat current manag gement is unlikely to produce this. This is backed up p by the Plantlife (2005) restricte
ed,
Important Arable e Plant Areas ‘Forr practical purposees records dating back to 1985 may y be considered.’ scattereed
distribution
EPR (2017) Tech hnical Note 2 also
o state that ‘The IA
APA score, for thee species we have e information on, isi from thee
indicative of pote
ential County Impo
ortance.’ With the proviso that theyy have ‘a very resttricted distribution and arable fields,
f
almost all are ab
bsent from nearly a
all of the arable la
ands, therefore alm
most all have no arable
a species of runway y and
conservation inteerest at all.’ western n end
of the site.
s
Bugloss – 1 – lasst seen Wisley Airrfield across the site
s 2016
Loose Silky-bentt – 6 – last seen WWisley Airfield arable fields 2014
Slender Parsley--piert – 1 – last se
een Wisley Airfieldd western end 201 16
Cornflower – 8 – last seen Wisley Airfield arable fieelds 2016
Common Stork’ss-bill – 1 – last seeen Wisley Airfield scattered across 2016
Common Cudwe eed – 6 – last seen n Wisley Airfield southern
s central 2016
2
Small-flowered CCrane’s-bill – 2 – last seen Wisley Airfield
A 2016
Sharp-leaved Fluuellen – 2 – last seen Wisley Airfield arable fields 2016
Dwarf Mallow – 2 – last seen on a arable edges southern/north of runw way 2016
Annual Knawel – 8 – last seen Wisley Airfield 2007
Corn Spurrey – 7 – last seen Wisley Airfield southe ern central 2016
Knotted Hedge-p parley – 3 – last seen Wisley edge central strip 2016 6
b) Suupports a significa
ant population See above, Table 3 and Appendixx 2 Criteria 24.
of a sspecies as discusssed in the
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14) S
Scrub Commun
nities Scrub communities present on the
e site have been included in the pro
oposed SNCI boundary. Criteria
a met
Whe en selecting sites bbased on other for scatttered
habittats all areas of asssociated scrub EPR in their Tecchnical Note 2 note e that the scrub areas are located principally
p towards the western end
d of the areas of
o
shouuld be identified annd included site, on parts of fformer fields, adja
acent to other habbitat areas includin
ng we woodland and
a ponds that pottentially scrub on
o a
within the SNCI bound dary. meet the SNCI sselection criteria. Where relevant and appropriate, th hese areas of scru
ub could be consid
dered variety of
hin any SNCI selection.
for inclusion with differen
nt
habitatss.
15) C
Community and
d access This site is not open to public exce
ept for a couple of public footpaths.. Criteria
a not
a) Sites which serve aas Accessible met.
Natu ural Greenspace wwithin urban
areas.
Sitess which are close to but do not
fully meet the habitat o
or species
guide elines may be connsidered for
selecction if they meet this criteria.
16) G
Geology and Not
Geoomorphology applicable.
RIGSS regarded as the e geological
equivvalent of SNCIs.

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Ap
ppendix 2:
2 Specie
es guide lines
SNC CI selectio
on Species
s Guidelin
nes (Gibbs
s, 2008), summary
s oof results and
ratio
onale baseed upon su
urvey

Sppecies Notees Result


177) Mammalls
Siites with known popula ations of:
a)) Dormouse e Unkn nown, theree are pockets of potenttial woodlannd Unknown.
habitat.
b)) Water Vole e Strattford Brook is very shaaded and cu urrently unlikkely Unknown, but
to su
upport Wate er Vole. They are thou ught to be unlikely.
functionally extiinct in Surre
ey.
c)) Otter Strattford Brook does have potential su uitable habiitat, Unknown, but
but Otters
O are n
not thought to be resideent in Surreey unlikely.
curreently.
Addditional infformation The RPS reportt Wisley Airrfield, Surrey y: Badger Additional
Survvey (RPS 20 013) states that 6 setts
s were identtified info
ormation
durinng the 20133 re-survey. Two active e, one ‘disuused’ only, no
mainn sett, an acctive annex, a subsidiaary sett and an critteria set for
outlie
er sett. this
s species.
188) Mammalls – Bats
a)) Contains a ‘significan
nt’ Rece ent surveyss have not suggested
s th
hat this is Unlikely. No
baat breeding roost or present. ‘sig
gnificant’
hibernation ssite. batt breeding
EPRR in their Te chnical Notte 2 that ‘No
o bat recordds rooosts or
weree returned fr
from within the
t site bouundary, althoough hib
bernation
recoords of Browwn Long-earred, Commo on Pipestreelle, site
es have
Natteerer’s, Nocttule, Sopranno Pipestrelle and beeen
Whis skered batss were returrned from thhe data searrch reccorded at
areaa of the 10kmm grid squa are in which
h the site occcurs.’ the
e site.
b)) Any breed ding roost orr Rece ent surveyss have not suggested
s th
hat this is Unlikely. No
hibernation ssite used byy present. See a lso EPR co omment from m above. breeeding roostt
multiple
m bat sspecies or hibernation
h
co
oncurrently.. site
e used by
muultiple bat
speecies
conncurrently
at the
t site.

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c)) Foraging ssites with more RPS S (2013) Ba at Survey report
r state
es ‘The sitee was Thiis suggests
th
han 5 specie es recordedd or asseessed has h having ‘Highh’ bat intere
est’ and thaat ‘The tha
at the
ussed by Anne ex II specie
es. vege etated bou undaries off the site (tree aveenues, critteria has
hedg gerows, sccrub corrid dors and woodland),
w were bee en met.
founnd to be the e area of mo ost value too bats on thhe site The e main
bringg of ‘High’ bat interes st. These three keyss area are
eas of
provvide a varie ety of habittats for batts to foragee and inte
erest for
commute. No bats were detectedd in the open aarable batts are the
fields
s during the e three acttivity surveyys which suuggest western end
these habitats offer limite ed foraging and comm muting and d along the
oppo During the 2013 surve
ortunities.’ D eys a total oof five souuthern
spec cies were re ecorded - Common
C Pip
pistrelle, Sooprano edg ge.
Pipisstrelle, Myottis sp, Sero
otine and No octule.

During the 2016 6 EPR Bat Survey fou ur to five sppecies


weree recorded on each su urvey, mostly from Com mmon
and Soprano P Pipistrelle bats
b – Commmon Pipisstrelle,
Soprrano Pipisttrelle, Nocttule, Myotiss sp., Nathhusius
Pipis
strelle & Leiisler’s bats.
19
9) Amphibiians
a)) Supports ppopulationss of Habitat not pressent. Not present.
Natterjack To oad.
b)) Regularly record ‘goood’ Rece ent records indicate tha at there are
e Great Cressted Does not
orr ‘exceptional’ breeding
g Newwts close to tthe site to the
t south an nd north. currrently meett
po
opulations o of Great Howwever, they hhave not cu urrently been found in tthe the
e criteria.
Crested New wt. site.

EPR R (2017) sta echnical Notte 2 that ‘Onn-site


ate in the Te
pondds do not su upport breeding GCN. On-site
terre
estrial habitaat is used by
b GCN from m one or moore
off-s
site breeding g ponds butt the breediing populatiion is
not ‘Good’
‘ or ‘E
Exceptional’’.’

No ‘GGood’ or ‘Exxceptional’ breeding po opulations hhave


beenn recorded.
c)) Supports p
populations of The updated EP PR (2015) Amphibian
A survey
s statees Criteria met
our or more native
fo ‘surv
vey work haas identifiedd that areas potentially for Pond 3.
ammphibian sppecies. suppporting up too four amphhibian speciies within thhe
site are
a limited tto ponds 2 and 3 and suitable
s
connnected terre
estrial habitaat (i.e. the northern,
n weestern
and south weste tern part of the
t site only y).’

The data from tthe EPR (20 013 & 2015) surveys
identified Smoooth Newt, Co ommon Toa ad and Com mmon
Frog
g on the site
e. In additio
on Great Creested Newtt have
also been found e, although not found too be
d on the site
bree
eding in the ponds, and ed surveys on
d by unrelate
Surrey Wildlife T t the north and it couldd be
Trust land to
sugggested that ‘this may reepresent a potential
p
metaapopulationn.’ (D Winchester, SWT T ES/SARG pers.
comm.).

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d)) 'Exception
nal' populations Not present. Does not
off any amphiibian specie es. me
eet criteria.
e)) 'Good' poppulations off 3 or Not recorded du
uring site su
urveys. Does not
more
m native a
amphibian me
eet criteria.
sp
pecies.
20
0) Reptiles
a)) Supports ppopulationss of Suita
able habitatt for supporrting populations of Sm mooth Not present.
Smmooth Snakke or Sand Snakke or Sand Lizards are e not presen nt and weree not
Lizard. recorded in the Reptile Surrvey.
b)) Population
ns of 3 or more
m RPSS (2013) Re ptile Survey y comments s that the siite Criteria met,
na
ative reptile
e species. suppports ‘Low’ P
Populations s of Adders and Comm mon repptile interestt
Lizard and a ‘G ood’ Popula ations of Slo
ow-worms aand is confined
c to
Grasss Snakes. the
e western
parrt of the site
e
EPRR (2015) Re ptile Survey
y concludess that the sitte andd the
suppports ‘Low’ P
Populations
s of Slow-wo
orm, Comm mon norrthern
Lizard and Grasss Snake. bouundary.

EPR
R (2016) Re ptile Survey
y comments s that the siite
supp
ports a ‘Goo
od’ Populatiions of Slow
w-worm andd
Com
mmon lizard and ‘Low’ Population
P of
o Grass Snnake.

The site qualifie


es as a key reptile site under Frogglife
guidelines (Frogglife, 1999).
c)) ‘Exceptionnal’ population sent, but no t recorded as
Pres a exceptional. Criteria not
off a single re
eptile specie
es or me
et.
a ‘good’ popu ulation of
Addders
d)) Assemblag ge of speciees EPR R (2017) Tecchnical Note 2 state that ‘Using thhe Criteria met,
sc
coring at leaast 4 points. 20133 data those e parts of th
he site wherre reptiles ooccur repptile interestt
scorre six pointss, using the 2015 data the site scoores is confined
c to
four points and using the 2016
2 data th
he site score
res the
e western
five points.’
p parrt of the site
e
andd the
norrthern
bouundary.
211) Birds
a)) Holds morre than 10%% of Not present.
Suurrey’s bree
eding or
wintering poppulation of a
sp
pecies.
b)) Supports sspecies on the EPRR bird surveyys do not re ecord any breeding or Criteria not
onservation concern lisst for
co winteering birds ffrom the rellevant tablee in the SNCCI me
et.
Suurrey categories 1-3. Guiddelines (Gib bbs, 2008).
c)) Supports a breeding bird
b Usinng the releva ant table in the SNCI Guidelines
G Criteria not
asssemblage or wintering g (Gibbs, 2008) th he confirme ed wintering
g and breed ing currrently met.
waterbird asssemblage ofo birds
s as listed inn the RPS (2013)
( surveeys do not
co
ounty imporrtance. curreently satisfyy the criteria
a.
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a)) Supports o one or more e EPRR state that ‘‘an updated d invertebra ate survey w was Furrther
naationally rarre or declining carriied on from May – Sep ptember 201 13’, and in tthat invertebrate
sp
pecies as lissted in the repo
ort the autho or states tha
at ‘a full inve
ertebrate suurvey surrvey work iss
latest nationa al Red Data a was undertaken n’. 44 inverrtebrates we ere recordedd rec
commended d
Boooks or listss. overr 6 visits. Th
he updated Invertebratte Survey 22016 oveer several
found 73 specie es, recorded d on a single site visit dayys during a
durin
ng July. full season by
an
Howwever it is off the opinionn of two loca
al entomoloogists expperienced
who know Wisle ey Airfield th
hat the site does have enttomologist
potential to be oof conserva ation interest for to ascertain
a
invertebrates. the
e
connservation
sta
atus for
Wissley Airfield
d
for
invertebrates.
b)) Supports a an importan nt See above, posssible. Unknown,
asssemblage or pottential.
poopulation(s)) of a BAP
prriority species.
c)) Supports a an importan nt See above, sitee shows goo od potential. Unknown,
asssemblage or pottential.
poopulation(s)) of a nation nally
sc
carce specie es.
233) Addition nal Inverteb brate Guideelines
a)) Meet the B British y few water feature opp
Very portunities. Unlikely.
Dragonfly So ociety criteria
fo
or Key Dragonfly Sites
b)) Supports a butterfly Unknnown. Unlikely.
pecies within list A.
sp
c)) Supports a locally Unknnown. Unlikely.
nootable popu ulation of fou
ur or
more
m of the b
butterfly
pecies within list B.
sp
d)) Sites with a Species RPSS (2013) Invvertebrate Survey
S identtified no Reed Unknown.
Quality Score e of greaterr Data
a Book speccies, howev ver a more detailed
d
th
han 4 for Wa asps, bees & invertebrate surrvey is requ
uired to asceertain the
Annts. consservation sta
atus for the
e site.
244) Vascularr Plants

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a)) Supports oone or moree See Table 1 & T Table 3 lists
s. 6 species
s of GB andd Criteria met,
sp
pecies incluuded in the Englland Red Liist species have
h been recorded inn the for species
latest nationa
al Red Dataa List Wisley Airfield ((excluding Snakes
S Field) since 20007, fou
und
fo
or plants. with 2 being reccorded durin ng 2016 surrveys. sca
attered
distribution
Wisley Airfield ((not includin
ng Snakes Field)
F acrross Wisley
*Loo
ose Silky-be ent – GBRL NT – last seen
s arable field Airffield and
edge
es 2014 also Snakes
*Hairy Rock-cre ess – ERL NT N – last se
een westernn end Fie
eld.
2014
4
*Com
mmon Cud dweed – GB BRL NT – la
ast seen
soutthern centrral 2016
*Corrn Spurrey y – GBRL V – last seen n southernn
centtral 2016
Annuual Knawel – GBRL E – last seen 2007

* i.e.4 GBRL / E ERL since 2014,


2 thus meeting
m the
criteria. Two off which were e recorded during the 22016
survey. EPR (2 2017) Tech hnical Note 2 state ‘A ssmall
popu ulation of beetween 20-5 50 plants off Near
Thre eatened (NT T) Common n Cudweed on one vergge on
the southern
s sitte of the site
e (a single plant
p was
recoorded close to this popu ulation by was
w later waashed
away y and not reefound). Th he other waas single plaants in
two locations
l off the Vulnerrable (VU) arable
a weedd
Corn n Spurrey re ecorded on the south edgee of the site
amo ongst rank g grassland.’

Snak
kes Field on
nly
Com
mmon Eyebrright – ERL NT – last seen
s 2010
Torm
mentil – ERL
L NT – last seen 2016
Heatth Speedweell – ERL NT
T – last see
en 2010

** i.e
e. 2 ERL NT
T since 2010, thus mee eting the critteria.
b)) Supports aan importan
nt Two UK BAP P riority Spec cies / Specie
es of Princippal Wh hilst
as
ssemblage or (SPI) Importancce of plant have
h been recorded
r at the preesent,
po
opulation(s)) of a UK BA
AP site. unlikely to be
prriority species. connsidered
Cornnflower wass last recordded in 2016 and Annuaal ‘important’ on
Knaw wel was lasst seen in 20
007 at Wisle
ey Airfield. the
eir own.
c)) Supports a nationally No Nationally
N S
Scarce spec cies have been
b recordded on Criteria not
sc
carce speciees. this site.
s meet.

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d)) Supports sspecies See Tables 1 an
nd 3. Criteria met,
identified by Surrey for species
Bootanical Society as rarre Wisley Airfield ((excluding Snakes
S Field) fou
und
annd notable wwithin Surre
ey. *Loo
ose Silky-be ent – last se
een arable field edges 22014 scaattered
*Hairy Rock-cre ess – last se
een westernn end 2014 distribution
*Corrnflower – last seen arable
a fields 2016 acrross Wisley
Red--tipped Cud dweed – las st seen 19688 Airffield and
**Co
ommon Cu udweed – la ast seen southern
s ceentral also Snakes
20166 Fie
eld.
*Commmon Ram mping-fumitory – last seen 20166
Heatth Cudweed d – last see
en Elm Cornner 1988
Yello
ow Bartsia – last seen Elm Cornerr 2006
Annuual Knawel – last seen n 2007
**Co
orn Spurrey y – last see
en southern central 22016

* 6 seen
s since 2
2014 acrosss Wisley Airrfield
** 2 seen during
g the 2016 survey
s

Snakkes Field onnly


Com
mmon Eyebrright – last seen s 2010
Heatth Speedwe ell – last seeen 2010
Torm
mentil – lastt seen 2016 6
e)) Sites seleccted as Not selected
s byy Plantlife. Not selected
Im
mportant Ara able Plant by Plantlife.
Arreas by Plantlife.
255) Lower Plants & Fungi
a)) Supports o one or more e No survey
s has b
been underrtaken. Unknown.
naationally rarre or declining
sp
pecies as lissted in the
naational Red Data Bookks.
b)) Supports a an importan nt No survey
s has b
been underrtaken. Unknown.
asssemblage or
poopulation(s)) of UK BAP P
prriority species.
c)) Supports a nationally No survey
s has b
been underrtaken. Unknown.
sc
carce specie es.
d)) Sites classsified as Not survey
s has been undertaken. Not selected.
Im
mportant Fungus Areass by
Pllantlife.
e)) Sites classsified as No survey
s has b
been underrtaken. Not selected.
Im
mportant Sto onewort Are eas
byy Plantlife.

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orough SN
NCI Survey
ys 2016: Existing
E Siite

Ap
ppendix 3:
3 Genera
al guidellines
Site
es which are close too, but do no
ot quite me
et the deta
ailed habitaat and species
guid
delines later in the report mayy be considdered for selection
s w
where they are
judg
ged as impportant usinng the gen
neral guide
elines below
w.

Theese generaal guidelin


nes are baased upon n the Ratc
cliffe Criterria (1977),, for
asssessing the nature conservattion value e of a prooposed S SNCI with the
ratio
onale base
ed upon the findings of the surv
vey.

Se
election Criteria Analysiis of site against
a criteria
Ra
arity The folloowing rare e or scare habitats w were recorrded
wet Ald er woodland, arable e fields andd criteria may
be met for Open Mosaic Ha abitat. Raare plants with
conservvation statu us have been recordeed.
Diversity The sitte is con nsidered tot be bootanically and
structuraally diverse
e.
Sizze The site
e 123 ha in size, repre esenting a large area a.
Naaturalness s The sitee is an olld airfield with a ruunway running
down thhe centre ofo the site.
Other p parts of th he site aree taken uup by working
arable fiields.
Deliberaately plan nted non n-native species and
acciden tally introdduced inva asive plannt species are
present these being b Buttterfly-bushh, Himala ayan
Balsam and Japan nese Knotw weed.
Tyypicalness s The hab bitat is noot typical of
o the surro rounding area,
a
althoughh there are othe er arablee fields and
connectting woodla and close by.
b
Frragility The site
e is large enough to be b sustaineed. The arreas
of ann nual and ruderal communnities req quire
occasion nal disturb
bance.
Reeplacabilitty It wouldd be very y difficult to
t replicatte the unique
mosaic of habita ats and species pre resent on the
scale.
Poosition in The site
e falls within a networrk of similaar arable fields
eccological unit
u / to the soouth and mixed
m wooodland to thhe north. The
Co e Stratford
onnectivity with the d Brook an nd woodlaand continuues its cou urse
lanndscape to the ssouth of thhe site. The site is therefore well
connectted to othe er habitats
s. The Sttratford Brrook
and surrrounding woodland
w is within a BOA RO O4 –
River WWey and trib butaries.
Edducational value The sitee is not currently
c open to thee public other
o
annd value foor the than twoo public foootpaths.
apppreciationn of
naature.

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orough SN
NCI Survey
ys 2016: Existing
E Siite

Se
election Criteria Analysiis of site against
a criteria
Po
otential va
alue This site
es acts as a buffer to o the nearbby SPA an nd is
a key arrable site. The value e of the sitte is in its rare
habitatss, plants and othe er groups.. Contin nued
sympath hetic mana agement willw help tto secure the
site for the futuree. Joined up managgement off the
wider arrea will also help to enhance
e thhe future off the
area.
Re
ecorded history Several local orga anisations have recoorded overr the
an
nd cultural site oveer many years
y inclu
uding Surre rey Amphibian
as
ssociations and Rep ptile Group (SARG) and parti cularly Su urrey
Botanica al Societyy (SBS) (p previously Surrey Flora F
Committtee).

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Key

Survey Area

Broadleaved Semi-natural Woodland

Dense/Continuous Scrub

Scattered Broadleaved Tree

Scattered Scrub

SI Semi-improved Neutral Grassland

Semi-improved Neutral Grassland/Ephemeral/Short Perennial

Dense Bracken

Tall Ruderal
A Arable

Running Water

Species-rich Hedge With Trees

Track

Hardstanding

Bare Ground

Target Note (1-12) SI

SI
SI

A
A
A
A
A
SI
A
SI
SI

SI
A
A A
A A A
Key
SNCI Boundary
GBC Adopted Local Plan 2003
Revised SNCI Boundary
SNCLG 2005
Revised SNCI Boundary
SNCLG 2007
Key
Current SNCI
Boundary

Area Recomended For


Addition To SNCI

Area Recomended For


Removal From SNCI

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