Site name: Ash Lane/New Road brownfield site	Zone: Inner Zone
Land owner: SCC land (sold or vested)	Date of survey: 9-Mar-00
Current management: None. Used as a builder's yard by building business on opposite side of Ash Lane	Proposed management: Plants and shrubs or trees to screen builders' rubbish and new wall/fencing or hedge.
	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 - update 2004 This rectangular brownfield site is situated on a street corner and is partly enclosed to the north and east by houses. A broken wooden fence on the eastern edge separates it from a private garden and a dilapidated wire fence attempts to confine the southern and western boundaries. There is a sheer drop on the southwest corner of the site from the road, with the vertical bank side poorly supported by the remnants of building foundations. The derelict site is sited on sloping land, with piles of builders’ waste (including bricks and old metal pipes), overgrown with bindweed, willowherb, long grass and other scrub vegetation.
Safety The site is open with good views and situated on the corner of two well-used roads, so it feels safe. Activities that the site supports at present The site is used for the tipping of builders’ waste.	Activities that could be supported in the future The site could be acquired by an adjacent property and converted into garden.
	Ideas for change This is a potential site for development, but it is suggested that the site be tidied up and planted with low maintenance shrubs meanwhile.

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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