ThrowleyBNG offset site

Site description

This 86 ha site is located within the District of Swale approximately 4.5km south of Faversham, with the village of Sheldwich to the east and North Wilderton to the West. It is surrounded by a patchwork of farmland and priority woodlands interspersed with small villages.

The site falls within the Kent Downs National Landscape (aka Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty) , famed for its quaint ragstone villages nestled among a network of ancient bluebell woodlands and internationally rare chalk grasslands.

Throwley includes of cereal crops, other neutral grassland, modified grassland, lowland mixed deciduous woodland and other broadleaved woodland. The site includes 2.646 km of native hedgerows.

Recommendations are for the condition of the modified grassland, lowland mixed deciduous woodland, other broadleaved woodland and native hedgerows to be increased by one level, i.e., from moderate to good, through management. This will be achieved through grazing, felling, pruning and planting.

Croplands will be transformed into a large broadleaved woodland that joins up the existing small woodland fragments with a wider woodland network across the landscape. This will provide important nesting and feeding sites for birds while also storing carbon.

Other parts of the site will become other neutral grassland, which are particularly important for flowering plants, pollinators, and wintering birds and mixed scrub that will benefit breeding birds.

Native hedgerows currently on site will be enhanced.

Fill out a form at the bottom of this page or email your development's BNG metric to bngenquiries@adonisblue.org.uk for a free BNG consultation.

These units are valid for a maximum of two years, provided site conditions do not significantly change.  If more than two years have lapsed between the site survey and habitat works being undertaken, an updated survey will be necessary to ensure recommendations remain valid.

Habitat Transitions