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Working with forestry consultants Lockhart Garratt, Warwick District Council have produced a management plan for Oakley Wood. The plan identifies the vision for the future of Oakley Wood as:
“Oakley Wood is to be perpetuated for future generations as a prominent and attractive woodland feature within the local landscape, whilst over time becoming increasingly naturalistic in its composition and structure and thereby heightening its biodiversity value. The woodland is to be made available as a local resource for informal low impact recreational and educational use and management is to recognise and reflect the woodland as a renewable natural resource”
Management plans are dynamic documents that are constantly reviewed in the light of experience and changing circumstances. As management of the wood progresses it is likely that there will need to be changes made to this plan.
The approved management plan
The initial draft plan was subject to extensive public consultation over the summer of 2009. Following this it was adopted subject to a number of minor modifications, which are detailed in a separate document.
Main body of Management Plan
Management plan pt 1 (PDF 270kB)
Summary of changes at adoption
Changes to the management plan (PDF 57kB)
Appendix 1 (Constraints and opportunities plan), Appendix 2 (Compartment schedule)
Management plan pt 2 (PDF 1.5MB)
Appendix 3 (Compartment map), Appendix 4 (Woodland crop type map)
Management plan pt 3 (PDF 2.4MB)
Appendix 5 (three zone ride management), Appendix 6 (5 year work programme)
Management plan pt 4 (PDF 1.6MB)
Appendix 7 (20 year vision plan), Appendix 8 (Outline 5 year cash flow)
Management plan pt 5 (PDF 1.5MB)
Appendix 9 (Photographic record)
Management plan pt 6 (3.9MB)
Appendix 10 (References)
Management plan pt 7 (PDF 86kB)
Recent changes
As a result of advice from the Forestry Commission some changes have been made to the proposals for ride management. Because of a combination of the shape of the wood, and the fact that rides running east to west provide the best habitat, the wider '3 zone' rides will now run east to west, whilst north - south rides will managed on a '2 zone' basis. These can be seen in the following plan:
Rides and road plan (PDF 469kB)
Phase I habitat survey
The development of the management plan was informed by a phase I habitat survey, under taken by Lockhart Garratt. This gives further details of the ecological value of the wood. It includes as an appendix an earlier survey of the neighbouring crematorium site undertaken by Middlemarch Environmental.
Main report
Habitat survey pt 1 (PDF 150kB)
Appendix I (Site location plan)
Habitat survey pt 2 (PDF 1MB)
Appendix II (Desk study results - excluding Middlemarch report)
Habitat survey pt 3 (PDF 670kB)
Appendix III (Phase I habitat survey plan), Appendix IV (Site photographs)
Habitat survey pt 4 (PDF 2.7MB)
Middlemarch Environmental report on Crematorium site (PDF 142kB)
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