Huish Colliery Quarry SSSI

Condition of Features

Feature name	Condition date	Condition status	Comment
ED - Hettangian Sinemurian and Pliensbachian	02/02/2012	Favourable	This baseline feature condition has been calculated from the historic unit-specific conditions. The condition assigned to the feature is the least favourable of the unit-specific conditions previously recorded for the feature. The status date is the assessment date of the lowest ranking assessment.

Habitat name	Responsible officer	Feature name	Unit Id	Area (ha)	NNR overlapping area (ha)	Assessment date	Assessment description	Comment
EARTH HERITAGE	Wessex Area Team	001	1002343	0.8202	0.00	08/02/2012	Favourable	There was no tipping or landfill, no tree planting, no engineering works and no evidence of any collecting of specimens. No planning conditions apply to this site so this is not relevant here. The key attributes from the conservation objectives are the exposure of the features of interest and how obscured they are by vegetation. In fact the rock faces were clearly visible and it was possible to walk along their base behind patches of bramble and other scrub for their entire length. One patch of scrub had been cut back and the brash piled away from the face, suggesting works to open up access to the features (though we were unaware of anything planned). Some rock faces are partially obscured by Ivy. Though access is likely to be less easy during summer I believe that with minor clearance of vegetation taking <2 hours it would still be possible to see all the features. The site is therefore considered to be in favourable condition.