Cotswold Water Park Biodiversity Action Plan
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About the LBAP


The Cotswold Water Park is a unique and special place; an area of freshwater lakes, larger than the Norfolk broads, on the Gloucestershire/Wiltshire border. It is nationally and possibly internationally important for wildlife and one of the largest and most popular freshwater sports centres in Britain. It is also the most important gravel extraction site in the South West with just over 2 million tonnes of gravel being extracted per year.

In 1997 the Joint Committee contracted its managerial responsibility within the park to the Cotswold Water Park Society Ltd, whilst retaining its role of providing the strategic overview for the development of the Park. A LBAP has just been written and is available in full by clicking on the logo (right).

Local partnerships

  • British Aggregates Construction Material Industries
  • Butterfly Conservation
  • Cotswold District Council
  • Cotswold Water Park Joint Committee
  • Cotswold Water Park Society
  • English Nature
  • Environment Agency
  • Gloucestershire County Council
  • Gloucestershire Environmental Trust Company
  • Gloucestershire Naturalists’ Society
  • Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
  • Many of the land owners and local farmers are also involved
  • National Farmers Union
  • North Wiltshire District Council
  • Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
  • Sand & Gravel Association
  • The Cotswolds Villages Society
  • Various Mineral Companies: Tarmac,Hanson,Hills,Cullimore,Aggregate Industries
  • Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
  • Wiltshire Bat Group
  • Wiltshire County Council
  • Wiltshire Ornithological Society
  • Wiltshire Wildlife Trust

Habitat Action Plan list

Species Action Plan List

  • Gadwall
  • Pochard
  • Tufted duck
  • Bittern
  • Reed Bunting
  • Freshwater White-clawed Crayfish
  • Water Vole
  • Otter
  • Stoneworts Lesser Bearded Stonewort

Contact

Simon Pickering - Biodiversity and Conservation Officer
Keynes Country Park
Spratsgate Lane
Shorncote
Cirencester
GL7 6DF

Telephone 01285 862777

 

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