Site name: Webb Avenue brownfield site	Zone: Inner Zone
Land owner: ?	Date of survey: 15-May-00
Current management: None	Proposed management: Temporary hedge planting along boundary with road to discourage disposal of garden waste. Some tree removal and control of Japanese knotwood. Sow wildflower meadow seed.
	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.

1.	Visual Attributes - update 2004 This brownfield site on the north side of Webb Avenue, above the Greenway, consists of dense tree planting (including sycamore, goat willow, rowan and ash), with an overgrown understorey of nettles and rosebay willowherb. Although they appear to be unmanaged, the trees provide a pleasant environment for the residents of nearby houses. A magnolia and leylandii hedge form the west boundary near the road, dividing the site from the adjacent garden; a new brick wall runs along the south boundary next to the pavement. The car park of the Pen Nook pub is located to the east of the site.
Safety The dense tree planting could create a slightly uncomfortable environment at night as it is close to the pavement, although the wall and the fact that the site is on a slightly lower level to the road prevents this.    Activities that the site supports at present The site is used for the dumping of garden waste, mostly grass cuttings.	2.
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	Activities that could be supported in the future If the trees were thinned and access provided, the site could be used as a communal garden or seating area. A path could be created leading down through the site to the Greenway, providing a short cut for pedestrians to Carr Road.

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 (Japanese Knotweed)	*
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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