Projects and reports on the SUNO and Wharfe/Ouse Catchments
Title
Purpose
Current Projects + Reports
NE green
Help local authorities protect and
infrastructure
create green infrastructure through
mapping project
their Local Development Frameworks
(LDFs).
North Yorks + York bring a diverse range of individuals,
LNP
businesses and organisations
together at a local level to create a
vision and plan of action of how
the natural environment can be taken
into account in decision
making
Opportunity
improving the condition of the water
mapping for
environment and meeting the
woodlands to
objectives of the Water Framework
reduce flooding
Directive (WFD).
Leeds City region –
Green
Infrastructure
Strategy
blueprint to guide
environmental investment to underpin
economic vitality and environmental
health.
EA/ YDRT Upper
Wharfe SSSI
Restoration project
Project to improve the Upper Wharfe
SSSI following Natural England report
and recommendations by
reconnecting the river to the flood
plain. Significant opposition to the
project by landowners
YDRT Darley Beck
Geographic Coverage
Date
Where held
Identifies green
corridors throughout
region
2010
http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/regions/yorkshire_and
_the_humber/ourwork/yandhgreeninfrastructuremapping
project.aspx
Priority areas –
River Swale
River Ure
Selby
current
YDRT has reports on Ure, Swale and Selby from Matt
Millington
NYCC paper on overall project at
https://www3.northyorks.gov.uk/n3cabinet_scru/transpo
rteconom_/reports_/20120717_/05localnaturepa/05local
naturepa.pdf
Y+H region
2010
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/York_and_Humber_flood
ing_final_report_2009.pdf/$FILE/York_and_Humber_floo
ding_final_report_2009.pdf
Central Ure
Landscape Project
(CUre) - river valleys
of the Ure and
its major tributaries
in a lowland
agricultural
context
Upper Wharfe
(Buckden)
Aug 2010
2013/14
and
2014/15
http://www.forestry.gov.uk/website/forestresearch.nsf/B
yUnique/INFD-97XGXX
http://www.harrogate.gov.uk/Documents/DS-PLDF_LeedsCR_GreenInfrastructureStrategy.pdf
Project reports available via EA.
Project
EA/ YDRT
Bishopdale beck
project
YDRT Raydale
Project
EA/ Nidderdale
AONB/ YDRT
Reconnecting the
River Laver
EA/ YDRT River
Laver Restoration
project
EA YDRT Renaturalising the
River Cover
CSF Humber River
Basin District
Strategy
Semerwater and
Upper Lune
Catchment
Partnership.
Land management improvements to
reduce sediment washing into
Bishopdale Beck including willow
spiling, willow bundling, tree planting,
woody debris, watercourse fencing,
drinking trough installation
Aims to manage Raydale to buffer
against future effects of climate
change. Gill planting with native trees,
buffer strips alongside river banks and
contour planting to reduce sediment
inputs into the stream network
Project to remove barriers/ install fish
easements on the River Laver
following a feasibility study by JBA
funded by the EA. Funding from
Yorventure, EA and Nidderdale AONB
Land management changes to reduce
sediment entering the watercourses
including tree planting, hedge planting,
willow spiling, willow bundling,
watercourse fencing, installing feeding
hard standing areas and drinking
trough hard standing areas
Project looking at restoring the River
Cover to a more natural sinuous
channel
Strategy for Catchment Sensitive
Farming
Bishopdale Beck,
River Ure
2012/13
and
2013/14
Reports available via YDRT or EA.
Raydale
current
Reports available via YDRT
River Laver, Kex Beck
2013/14
Project reports available via EA.
River Laver, Kex Beck,
Carlesmoor Beck
2012/13
and
2013/14
Project reports available via EA.
River Cover
Current
Project reports available via EA Fisheries and Biodiversity
Team.
Humber river basin
2011 - 14
http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/793
3800?category=45002
YDNPA have been working in
partnership with Natural England,
the Environment Agency and the
Rivers Trust on two projects within
Semewater sub
catchment of river
Ure
current
http://www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/livinghere/whatwecan
dotohelpyou/farmingadvice/csf
the Lune and Semerwater
catchments, giving advice to
farmers within these areas to help
them improve the water quality of
the rivers, lake and streams.
EA Yorkshire Peat
restoration
through Yorkshire
Peat Partnership
Restoring degraded moorland which
has been artificially drained.
Interventions include grip blocking,
gully blocking, steep gully re-profiling
and re-vegetating.
YWT is working with the minerals
industry to develop wetland creation
schemes, at Ripon City Quarry and
Ladybridge Quarry near Nosterfield.
Yorkshire Dales
National Park, ,
Nidderdale AONB
Current
General information on
http://www.yppartnership.org.uk/
River Ure
current
http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/livinglandscape/schemes/river-ure-living-landscape
YWT Vale of York
flood plains
Conservation work going ahead on
twelve sites around the Ouse to
improve the wetland habitat around
the river banks for wildlife, with a
focus on insects.
R.Ouse at York
current
http://www.ywt.org.uk/vale-york-floodplains
CFE Local
prioritisation
Document
Campaign for the Farmed Environment
prioritisation plan for North Yorkshire
North Yorks
2013
Pdf held by YDRT
EA Ouse
Catchment Flood
management plan
Aims to establish flood risk
management policies which will
deliver sustainable flood risk
management for the long term
sets out how EA will manage water
resources in the Swale, Ure, Nidd and
Upper Ouse catchment
Rivers Swale, Ure
Nidd, Wharfe + Ouse
current
http://a0768b4a8a31e106d8b050dc802554eb38a24458b98ff72d550b.r19.cf3.rackcdn.co
m/gene0110brli-e-e.pdf
SUNO catchment
2013
http://www.environmentagency.gov.uk/static/documents/Business/LIT_7868.pdf
sets out how water resources are
Wharfe and lower
2013
http://www.environment-
YWT Living
Landscapes
EA SUNO
Catchment
Abstraction
Management
Strategy
EA Wharfe and
lower Ouse
Catchment
Abstraction
Management
Strategy
YDNPA
management plan
managed in the Wharfe and Lower
Ouse area.
Ouse
This Management Plan sets out
Yorkshire Dales
National Park
current
http://www.yorkshiredalesmanagementplan.org.uk/seethe-national-park-management-plan/NPMP-workingdoc.pdf
Nidderdale AONB
current
http://www.nidderdaleaonb.org.uk/Documents/Manage
mentPlan2009-2014_EvidenceBaseReport.pdf
ambitions for how the National Park
will be looked after over the next five
to ten years.
Nidderdale AONB
to provide a framework for action by
management plan
everyone with an interest in the AONB
+ evidence base
including landowners and managers,
rural communities, local authorities,
third sector organisations and
Government agencies.
Selby district
sets out the Council’s wider ambition
council
toward the management of the
Countryside and
countryside and green space
Green Space
throughout the district and how it can
Strategy
conserve and
enhance the biodiversity by working
with a range of partners and involving
communities.
Biodiversity Action Plans
Richmondshire BAP To work towards the co-ordination and
delivery of projects based around the
published actions, to achieve the
action plan targets.
Hambleton BAP
Establish a local process for the
delivery of the UK Biodiversity
Action Plan
- Deliver action on agreed targets
within a stated time scale
- Monitor progress towards targets
- Generate awareness, understanding
and involvement in wildlife
conservation
agency.gov.uk/static/documents/Business/LIT_7869.pdf
management plan http://www.nidderdaleaonb.org.uk/Documents/Manage
mentPlan2009-2014.pdf
http://www.selby.gov.uk/upload/C_and_GSS_Strategy_20
13.pdf
Selby district
current
Richmondshire
District covering
several relevant
habitats + species
Hambleton District
current
https://www.richmondshire.gov.uk/PDF/Final%20BAP.pdf
current
http://www.hambleton.gov.uk/HambletonDistrictCouncil/
documents/Planning/LDF/Hambleton_BAP_April_2002.pd
f
Harrogate BAP
City of York BAP
Selby BAP
Nature in the Dales
2020 vision
plans set out the importance of the
species and habitats in the district,
identify their local status, threats to
them and opportunities to assist their
recovery. The Action Programme
draws together the targets and actions
which the partners are committed to
undertake to help to reverse these
declines locally.
Plan drawn up to provide up to date
information about the wildlife that is
found in York, the sites that are of
value, its importance both for York and
nationally, the threats that are
posed by today’s way of life and what
can and is being done to conserve it.
Aims to identifies specific
and positive actions that can be
undertaken to conserve the District’s
biodiversity.
Harrogate District
current
http://www.harrogate.gov.uk/plan/Documents/Biodiversi
ty/DS-P-BAP_adopted_2012_excludingAppendices.pdf
action Plan http://www.harrogate.gov.uk/plan/Documents/Biodiversi
ty/DS-P-BAP_ActionPlan_approved.pdf
http://www.harrogate.gov.uk/plan/Pages/BiodiversityHarrogate.aspx
City of York
current
http://www.york.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/7362/bi
odiversity_action_plan_pdf - 178k
Selby District
current
http://www.selby.gov.uk/service_main.asp?menuid=&pag
eid=&id=971
The Local Biodiversity Action Plan
for the Yorkshire Dales National
Park, ‘Nature in the Dales: 2020
Vision’ sets out our aspirations for
action between 2010 and 2020,
aiming to conserve and enhance
the biodiversity within the National
Park.
Yorkshire Dales
National Park
2010 2020
http://www.natureinthedales.org.uk/bap
Sites mainly
associated with the
Swale + Ure
washlands
2007 2011
http://www.washare.com/sites/tarmac/killerby/sc/Consul
tation%20Documents/Tarmac%20BAPS/NYorks%20BAP%2
0Vol2%20pdf.pdf
R.Ouse and all its
tributaries
2007
YDRT have hard copy of the report plus pdf maps
Tarmac North
Vol2 of the BAP contains information
Yorkshire Quarries
specific to each of the nine quarry sites
Biodiversity Action within N.Yorks that were included in
Plan
within the BAP process.
Older projects + reports
SPROUT
‘Strategic Partnership for the River
Ouse and its Tributaries’ produced an
Opportunity Plan to identify potential
locations for environmental
Swale and Ure
Washlands
Upper Wharfe Best
Practice Project
Ripon MultiObjective Project
Landscape history
+ Human impacts –
Swale + Ure
Washlands
YWT River Wiske
Otter recovery
project
enhancement projects
Create a chain of nature reserves and
community assets on the former
mineral workings
minimise the effects of enhanced
sedimentation, poor fish recruitment,
diffuse agricultural pollution and
temperature by encouraging better
land management, creating improved
habitats for wildlife and promoting
sustainable use of water as a natural
resource
investigate the potential for delivering
flood risk
management through land use and
land management changes at a
catchment scale
The project has studied the fluvial,
vegetational, and landscape evolution
of the area and the impact of human
activity during the later postglacial
(Holocene) period.
Aim to work with landowners to create
a safe environment for otters whilst
protecting the habitat that’s already
there
Middle + lower
sections of Swale and
Ure. Roughly Scotch
corner to
Knaresborough
Wharfe upstream
from Kettlewell
2005
http://www.luct.org.uk/wpcontent/uploads/2010/04/SUWP-MAS-Complete.pdf
Laver/Skell
catchment at Ripon
Ended
2007
Swale + Ure
Washlands
2004
Final report
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/201301231629
56/http:/www.defra.gov.uk/environ/fcd/policy/wetlands/
jbarep.pdf
lessons learnt paper http://archive.defra.gov.uk/environment/flooding/docum
ents/manage/riponlessons.pdf
http://www.geography.dur.ac.uk/projects/swaleure/Home/tabid/1761/Default.aspx
R.Wiske
2009
http://www.ywt.org.uk/what-we-do/projects/river-wiskeotter-recovery-project