SOUTH PENNINE MOORLAND FRINGE HABITAT SURVEYS CASE STUDY Hay-cutting on in-bye land on the moorland fringeBRIEF In autumn 2012 we were appointed to undertake a Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) for the Bradford District Draft Core Strategy in order to assess potential impacts on the North and South Pennine Moors. The Moors are both designated as Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) and Special Protection Areas (SPA) due to their internationally important habitats and breeding bird populations. In the interim HRA we could not conclude an absence of impacts to the SAC/SPA via a number of mechanisms and, among other things, recommended further data gathering: • Surveys of bird activity around the moorland fringe to explore how frequently and how far birds breeding within the

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