Site name: Manchester Road (north side) brownfield site no.3	Zone: Inner Zone
Land owner: SCC Leisure Services (Del)	Date of survey: 29-Feb-00
Current management: None	Proposed management: Remove rubbish. Thin out trees and shrubs. Footpath improvements. Hedge planting along boundary with road to discourage fly-tipping.
IZ-GA30	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

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3.	Visual Attributes - update 2004 This brownfield site, covered in woodland, slopes down from the north side of Manchester Road to a stone wall at the bottom. A bus stop and shelter is located on the road by the site, and a concrete post and rail fence, with several rails missing, runs alongside. A public right of way sign points through a narrow set of stone posts at the east end of the site by Manchester Road, which lead down a very overgrown stepped path to a track next to a gatehouse. Vegetation around this path includes privet, elder, ash, nettles, brambles and rosebay willowherb.
Safety The overgrown vegetation along the footpath is currently a tripping hazard; it may also provide a potentially dangerous hiding place, although the site does feel safe to enter and is sheltered and secluded. Activities that the site supports at present The majority of the site does not support any human activity (except some fly tipping over the wall) as it is inaccessible. The footpath provides public access down through the site.	4.
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7.	Activities that could be supported in the future The footpath could be cleared and an information board provided to suggest possible walking routes from the site. Some of the trees could be removed to create a ‘woodland glade’, with seating or picnic benches and informal play provision.
Ideas for change This site would benefit from woodland management: trees need thinning. shrubs need pruning back and some new planting up done. The footpath and steps need renovating as a public right of way. Rubbish is a continuing problem and should be cleared.

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

Stocksbridge SRB5 Greenspace Audit undertaken by Jim Flanagan for Sheffield Wildlife Trust - see their Community Action Handbook - full of good ideas for your local site

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