Site name: Manchester Road (north side) brownfield site no. 5	Zone: Inner Zone
Land owner: Corus Engineering Steels	Date of survey: 1-Mar-00
Current management: None	Proposed management: Remove rubbish. Retain fallen deadwood. Thin out shrubs and create habitat piles with brash.
IZ-GA32	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 flat brownfield site is located in a dip to the north side of Manchester Road and is comprised of scrub with large, dense patches of Japanese knotweed, bindweed, thistle and nettles. The area is accessible to pedestrians via three sets of steps set into the high retaining wall next to the pavement, although only one is actually usable, as two are very overgrown with brambles. Trees line the north side of the site in front of the Little Don River. Safety The site is open with relatively low vegetation and is overlooked by the adjacent buildings and Manchester Road, so it feels quite safe to enter.
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4.	Activities that the site supports at present The site provides an undisturbed habitat for wildlife, although there is evidence of occasional dumping. Activities that could be supported in the future The aggressive Japanese knotweed needs removing to allow other types of vegetation to establish. The overgrown steps could be cleared and a path could run down the site to access the Little Don Walk, which runs below the site next to the river.
Ideas for change This site is awaiting redevelopment: the land has already been purchased and is being cleared. The footpath is to be retained, as it forms part of the Little Don Walk.

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	*		Fallen deadwood	*
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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