Site name: Ash Lane/New Street brownfield site (south side of Manchester Road)	Zone: Inner Zone
Land owner: SCC housing	Date of survey: 29-Feb-00
Current management: None: Former housing site demolished (possibly because of subsidence?)	Proposed management: Remove tall herb & bramble, re-landscape with topsoil and sow with wildflower meadow seed mix. Retain planted shrubs.
	Date of Visual Survey - Aug 2004	Click map to see details and location of photographs

The ideas and possibilities outlined below are designed to help members of the local community as they think about what could happen on this site. Nothing is fixed and alternative solutions may well emerge over the coming decade - it is for the local community to decide and enable it to happen. Use the email button at the bottom right to volunteer to help and also to send additional information and ideas for specific sites

1.	Visual Attributes This rectangular section of neglected land slopes up from Manchester Road in between Ash Lane to the west and New Street to the east. A muddy pull-in that runs right along the north edge of the site by Manchester Road is covered in litter. Trees, which include goat willow, silver birch, hawthorn, ash and cotoneaster, and a mass of brambles, screen the site from this main road. The odd self-set garden plant, such as montbretia, is also found on site. There are vehicle tracks into the site from the bottom of New Street, possibly deriving from when the area of housing there was demolished. These tracks lead to a flat central area, which is carpeted in grass, with occasional rosebay willowherb plants. A line of large privet and hawthorn bushes grows to the south of this central plateau. A formal entrance into the site (which is unbounded anyway) is located at the top of New Street, marked by two stone gateposts.
Safety The site is overlooked by surrounding houses and is next to the main road, both providing some surveillance.   Activities that the site supports at present There is evidence of dumping of garden waste and litter.	2.
Activities that could be supported in the future   The vegetation could be cleared and outdoor seating or a play area could be provided for local residents.

Ecology

HABITAT TYPES FOUND ON SITE
	found 2002	aim by 2012		found 2002	aim by 2012
Amenity Grassland			Mosses and Bryophytes
Amenity Shrubs	*		Heath Land
Amenity Tree Planting			Wetlands
Amenity Flower Beds			Open Water
Amenity Hedges			Running Water
Rough Grassland	*		Cultivated/Disturbed Land
Acid Grassland			Bare Earth/Erosion
Marshy Grassland			Hedges
Trees Broadleaf			Walls	*
Trees Coniferous			Fences
Trees Mixed			Invasive Species
Scrub	*		Other (Please state)
Tall Herbs	*
Low Herbs and Shrubs (Native)	*
Amenity Bulb Planting

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