FOFW Management plans
At the launch of the Friends of Frith Wood, local people voted on their priorities and protecting the wood came out on top. This forms the basis of our aims in managing the wood:
- Protect the woodland, for everyone for always
- Save the wood loved by so many from development!
- Create a haven for wildlife
- A community project to improve the wood for future generations
- A beautiful place for all of us, whatever age, to enjoy and look after.
How will we do this?
Our approach to managing the CPC area of the wood is based on the following principles:
- Consulting, engaging and communicating with, and as part of, the community. We will work together towards a stronger Frith Wood for the future.
- To the best of our knowledge, doing no harm to the ecology and habitats of the wood. Always seek to improve them for future generations, even if that means constraining human activity in places.
- Keeping interference to a minimum consistent with managing the wood for the future.
- Being bold however where we need to, where there is evidence that shows we need to be, to protect the wood for the future.
- Avoiding permanent structures within the wood.
- Taking professional advice where needed.
Our woodland management priorities for 2022 – 2023:
- We will update the management plan for the Parish Council part of the wood, to make sure all we do supports its trees and all its biodiversity over the next five to ten years.
- Alongside this we will continue to make it possible for the public to enjoy the PC area of the wood, without doing it damage.
- We will communicate through many channels so that the FOFW truly operates with the involvement and support of the community.
- Signs in the PC area of the wood will be sustainable and minimal and we will keep the wood as a place of tranquillity.
- We will keep an open dialogue with Robert Hitchins, looking to work with them if possible in the management of the wood as a whole.