ML00/1-Liaise, owners/occupiers
- Liaise LCC/ELDC
Project
brief includes all liaison with ELDC and LCC officers and members/councillors.Includes attendance of
JAC meetings twice per year.
Chief
issues With LCC presently include:
Confirmation
of 99 year lease.
Annual
grant for NNR management.
Maintenance
of all LCC buildings/structures including Field Station.
Field
Station redevelopment.
Maintenance
of other structures, tracks etc as detailed in lease.
Chief
issues with ELDC
Annual
grant for NNR management.
Lease
renewal.
Management
of Seacroft SSSI/SAC
Coastal
zone management (recreational zonation etc).
ML40/2-Liaise,
local/national authorities - Liaise English Nature
Routine
liaison is achieved with English Nature via the NNR team and the JAC. Outside of these
committees/teams, management advice and approval is sought from the Conservation Officer at Grantham.
MH70/1-Manage
habitat, coastal, by visitor control - Manage cyclists
Instate
shared cycle-route/footpath along perimeter of Tennyson's Sands, Jackson's Marsh and Plantation.
Provide appropriate signs to direct cyclists onto route and deter access onto wider reserve. Provide
secure
cycle storage at North Car Park, Visitor Centre and access points to hides on Jackson's Marsh and
Tennyson's Sands. Code of conduct to be observed for cyclists.
ME02/1-Other
structures - Maintain hides and structures
Window
cleaning as and when required on hides/Wash Viewpoint.
Maintenance
and weather proofing as directed by regular inspection. Use of water-based wood preserver.
Maintain
low post and wire fences, safety rails.
Maintain
dipping platforms.
Provide
and maintain rustic benches approx every 500m along waymarked routes.
ME04/2-Remove
rubbish - Clear asbestos
Remove
from Aylmer end plot. Contractor employed to remove and dispose, licensed from EA.
ME04/3-Remove
rubbish - Clear litter
Carry
out weekly (Monday morning) litter pick of car parks, road edges, and main visitor routes. Sweep hides
and Wash Viewpoint as required. NB In recent years it has become necessary to take a sharps facility
on
litter picks to accommodate hypodermic needles.
Additional
clearance to deal with periodic fly-tipping in car parks and road edge.
ELDC
provide and maintain dog poop scoop bin in South Car Park. Seek to instate same at North Car Park.
ME12/1-Buildings,
maintain/improve - Maintain public toilets
Daily
maintenance of public toilets to be carried out.
Seek
to improve standard of public toilets (LCC responsibility).
Seek
to tie in future daily maintenance through LCC/ELDC contract services. There are plans to build a
separate toilet block as part of Field Centre/Visitor Centre Refurbishment.
ME22/1-Trim/fell/clear
trees/shrubs - Implement tree surgery on dangerous limbs
Remove
over hanging sycamore bough - Gib road. Limbing of unbalanced beech - Sykes Farm orchard. Work
to be carried out by professional tree surgeon.
ME40/1-Provide/maintain
paths/rides/roads - Maintain and Improve footpaths
Ongoing
maintenance of all tracks and surfaces as required following inspection.
Where
possible, improvements for disabled access should be a consideration.
LCC
lease details their obligations for certain path maintenance.
MM10/2-Acquire/service
machinery - Service ticket machines
Twice
yearly service of car park ticket machines to be carried out by Almex contract services.
Non-routine
problems also referred to Almex.
Project
brief includes dealing with routine faults, maintaining ticket stocks and changing times and tarriffs
according to season.
Tariffs
changed to high season rates from Easter. Low season from end of September.
