Telephone: 01895 833 375
Fax: 01895 833552
Email: colnevalley@groundwork.org.uk
Web: www.colnevalleypark.org.uk
Colne Valley Park Visitor Centre
Denham Court Drive
Denham
UB9 5PG
Nature Conservation
The Colne Valley Park is important for biodiversity, in particular the string of wetland habitats running down the centre of the park provide a landscape scale resource right on the edge of London. With regard to site designations the Colne Valley Regional Park contains:
· Part of 1 Special Protection Area
· Part of 1 National Nature Reserve
· 13 Sites of Special Scientific Interest
· 7 Local Nature Reserves
In addition there are many non-
During the 1990’s the UK Biodiversity Steering Group created lists of priority habitats and species. Priority habitats were selected based on the UK's international obligations, habitats with a high rate of decline, rare habitats and areas important for priority species. The priority species themselves were based on species which are either globally threatened or are rapidly declining in the UK. This list was most recently revised in 2008.
The Colne Valley Regional Park contains many valuable habitats, including the following from the Priority List.
· Arable Field Margins
· Coastal and Floodplain Grazing Marsh
· Eutrophic Standing Waters
· Hedgerows
· Lowland Beech and Yew Woodland
· Lowland Calcareous Grassland
· Lowland Dry Acid Grassland
· Lowland Fen
· Lowland Heathland
· Lowland Meadows
· Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland
· Ponds
· Purple Moor Grass and Rush Pastures
· Reedbeds
· Rivers
· Wet woodland
· Wood-
At least 77 species from the UK Biodiversity Action Plan priority species list have been recorded in the Colne Valley Park.