Road verges - ecological protection scheme

Re: EIR request - Ref EI/09/0001

I wish to acknowledge receipt of your request.

I have asked the Director of Area Management to commence enquiries
immediately to find all applicable information relating to your request
under the EIR Regulations and to supply any which is found to me.

Your request should be processed within 20 working days, which means the
Council will provide you with the information it has (assuming no
exceptions are claimed) by 6 April 2009. If it is possible to provide you
with the information within a shorter timescale then that will be done. If
your request is particularly complicated, the Council may wish to have an
additional 20 days to respond to your request, but I will write to you and
let you know if this is the case before 6 April 2009.

Should you have any queries about this matter please don***t hesitate to
contact me.

Kind regards
Ken Hamer
Constitutional Officer
01642 444626

Susan Davis
<[FOI #8947 email]> To: FOI requests at Redcar &
Cleveland Council
07/03/2009 16:30 <[Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council request email]>
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Freedom of Information request - Road verges
- ecological protection scheme

Dear Sir or Madam,

If you run an ecological protection scheme for road verges in your
area, please could you provide me with the following details:

a) what protection measures a verge receives when it is included in
the scheme

b) the list of verges covered by the scheme (and their locations -
road name/number and six figure OS grid references would be fine)

c) for each verge, the specific reasons why the verge has been
included in the scheme - i.e. the notable species found there, or
the NVC community present

If you do not run such a scheme in your area, but you are aware
that another body does, please could you refer me to them instead.

Many thanks,

Susan Davis

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Re: EI 09 0001
Further to my acknowledgement of your request, I have received some
information from a Principal Planning Officer and am now in a position to
respond. I can confirm we do not hold the information requested as the
Council don't have an ecological protection scheme in the Borough for
roadside verges.

However, I hope the following information is useful. The Council's
Countryside and PROW Section are managing one roadside verge at present
and are considering another verge for the same purpose, adjacent to a long
distance walkway; the opportunities for management of verges for
biodiversity arise on an ad hoc basis and in essence entail replacing
regular close grass cutting with annual cutting after flowering, followed
by raking off.

The Borough is located within the Tees Valley. The Tees Valley Wildlife
Trust is developing a series of Habitat Action Plans (and Species Action
Plans) and these can be viewed on the website
http://www.teesvalleybiodiversity.org.uk...
One of the HAPS being developed is on roadside verges. Each HAP describes
the habitat, discusses status nationally and locally, and sets out targets
and actions needed to secure a healthy future for the habitat.

I hope that this satisfies your request for information. If you are not
satisfied with how your request has been dealt with then you are free to
make a complaint either to the Council or to the Information Commissioner.
You will find details of the complaints procedure on the Council's Website
at
http://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/YrCou...
(alternatively by using the A-Z Index from the home page). The Information
Commissioner is an independent person who has responsibility for
overseeing the Data Protection Act 1998, the Freedom of Information Act
2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. More details can
be obtained from the Information Commissioner***s website at
[1]www.ico.gov.uk .

Should you have any queries about this matter please don***t hesitate to
contact me.

Sue Bridges
Constitution Manager

Susan Davis
<[FOI #8947 email]> To: FOI requests at Redcar &
Cleveland Council
07/03/2009 16:30 <[Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council request email]>
cc:
Subject: [Possible SPAM]
Freedom of Information request - Road verges
- ecological protection scheme

Dear Sir or Madam,

If you run an ecological protection scheme for road verges in your
area, please could you provide me with the following details:

a) what protection measures a verge receives when it is included in
the scheme

b) the list of verges covered by the scheme (and their locations -
road name/number and six figure OS grid references would be fine)

c) for each verge, the specific reasons why the verge has been
included in the scheme - i.e. the notable species found there, or
the NVC community present

If you do not run such a scheme in your area, but you are aware
that another body does, please could you refer me to them instead.

Many thanks,

Susan Davis

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Hello,
I have forwarded your request to the Officer who provided the information
for your original request and asked that he respond to you direct.

regards
Ken Hamer
Constitution Officer

Susan Davis
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[email address]
07/04/2009 19:06 cc:
Subject: Re:
Freedom of Information request -
Road verges - ecological
protection scheme

Dear Sue,

Many thanks for your reply. Do you have any further information on
the ecological interest of the verge managed by the Council's
Countryside and PROW Section mentioned in your reply?

Thanks,

Susan Davis

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Dear Susan,

You have asked for further information on the ecological interest on the
verge managed by the Council. I am responding direct to you in this
respect.

As mentioned previously, the Council is managing one roadside verge at
present; the management strategy was put in place by the Countryside Team,
with on-going management by the Green and Clean team in the Council.

This is a list of species recorded in 2005 on the verge.

Bird’s Foot Trefoil
Black Knapweed
Bush Vetch
Cleavers
Common Bistort
Common Field speedwell
Common Ragwort
Common Vetch
Cow Parsley
Crosswort
Cuckoo Flower
Cut-leaved Cranesbill
Daisy
Dandelion
Hogweed
Lesser Celandine
Meadow Vetchling
Oxeye daisy
Ribwort plantain
Yarrow

I hope this is useful to you.

With regards, Rob Lunan