30. Invasive Non-Native Species Control
Themes:
Habitats and wildlife
This project aims to eradicate invasive non-native species from the catchment.
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29. Sawbridgeworth Marsh Nature Reserve
Themes:
Habitats and wildlife
Sawbridgeworth Marsh nature reserve is a Site of Special Scientific Interest lying alongside the River Stort and Stort Navigation.
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28. Keeping Kingfisher's Nesting on the Stort
Themes:
Habitats and wildlife
Kingfishers are an iconic part of the Stort Valley's natural heritage. However, these beautiful birds are not as common as you might think. They can be given a helping hand to breed successfully by creating artifical nesting sites along the River Stort and Navigation.
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32. Riparian Rights and Responsibilities
Themes:
People
This project aims to improve riparian landowner understanding of their rights and responsibilities and stimulate action for the river.
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27. Stort Valley Meadows
Theme:
Habitats and wildlife; People
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26. Bishop's Stortford Towpath Project
Themes:
People
Location: Station Road to London Road.
This is one of several proposals to help improve and activate the Stort at Bishop's Stortford.
This project will provide a new towpath surface for shared use, linking in to the head of the Navigation in the heart of Bishop's Stortford.
25. Bishop's Stortford Piazza Project
Themes:
People
Location: Barratt Homes land at Riverside
This project is one of several proposals to improve and activate the Stort at Bishop's Stortford. It includes improvements between the vacant retail units at Jackson Square and the river,on private land. This work intends to develop the land as public realm.
24. Access improvements at Pishiobury Park
Themes:
People
This project has seen the installation of bridges and boardwalks to create a link between Pishiobury Park and the River Stort towpath.
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23. Sworders Field Masterplan
Themes:
People
Create a masterplan for Sworders Field in Bishop’s Stortford, and adjacent areas in the control of Bishop’s Stortford Town Council. The plan is to include various public facilities and will guide the development of the area for the period 2012-2022.
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22. Riverside Piazza Enhancement
Themes:
People
To enhance the appearance of Bishop’s Stortford Riverside Piazza by providing screening, opening up the view to the river, managing the riverside planting and other enhancements.
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20. Stort Springs
Themes:
Habitats and wildlife
To restore and continuously manage the Stort Spring (a local wildlife site) in Positive Conservation Management.
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19. Stort Navigation in Bishop's Stortford – Reedbeds
Themes:
Habitats and wildlife
This project aims to restore and connect habitats up and downstream of Bishop's Stortford through creating reedbeds along the non- towpath side of the Navigation.
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18. Red White and Blue at Bishop Stortford
Themes:
Habitats and wildlife
To restore flood plain habitats and enhance the river through the site.
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17. Hunsdon Mead to Harlow
Theme:
Habitats and wildlife; People
To restore the entire flood plain priority habitat between Hunsdon Mead Site of Special Scientific Interest and Harlow.
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16. Hunsdon Mead Diffuse Water Pollution Plan
Themes:
Quality
This project aims to identify the sources of pollution throughout the catchment with a view to resolving them. This would enable Hunsdon Mead Site of Special Scientific Interest to achieve favourable status.
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11. Riverfly Monitoring Initiative
Themes:
Quality
Establishing Riverfly Monitoring on the River Stort.
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10. Managing the Stort Valley for Water Voles
Themes:
Habitats and wildlife
Water Voles are one of the UK's most threatened mammals and have been declining in numbers over recent decades. Through conservation efforts, better land management and a partnership approach, these trends are being reversed across the Stort Valley.
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9. Thorley Wash Nature Reserve
Themes:
Habitats and wildlife
Thorley Wash is a Site of Special Scientific Interest designated for its wildflowers associated with unimproved wet meadows.
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8. Mill Fen Sawbridgeworth
Theme:
Habitats and wildlife; People
The creation of a community wetland nature reserve
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7. Pincey Brook restoration
Theme:
Quality; Habitats and wildlife
This project aims to restore the Pincey Brook by dealing with the problems of water quality, siltation and heavy overshading.
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4. Kingfisher bank at Tednambury farm
Themes:
Habitats and wildlife
To construct a kingfisher nesting bank
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31. Catchment Sensitive Farming - County Wide
Themes:
Quality
Helping farms to play a key role in cleaning up rivers and streams.
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1. Canons Brook restoration
Theme:
Quality; Habitats and wildlife
To tackle various problems facing the Cannons Brook, to generally improve the health of the watercourse
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15. Grange Paddocks
Theme:
Flow; Habitats and wildlife; People
This project is to remove a weir and enhance the river for wildlife and people through Grange Paddocks in Bishop's Stortford.
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13. Understanding the Stort Valley’s importance to invertebrates
Themes:
Habitats and wildlife
To better understand the significance of the Stort Valley to invertebrates
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3. Bringing Barn Owls back to the Stort Valley
Themes:
Habitats and wildlife
Helping Barn Owls to colonise the Stort Valley through provision and monitoring of nesting boxes.
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14. Restoring the Stort at Hunsdon Mead
Theme:
Flow; Habitats and wildlife
Hunsdon Mead is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) lying between the River Stort and Stort Navigation. It is one of the finest surviving wetland meadows in Hertfordshire, providing valuable unimproved grassland where orchids and wildflowers thrive.
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