Linn Park Woodland and Open Habitat Plan
Glasgow City Council Natural Environment Team has produced woodland and open habitat land mangement proposals spanning the next five years to improve and manage open habitat, in particular meadows. These proposals are now described within Linn Park Woodland and Open Habitat management plan, giving a complete habitat vision for the park.
To help fund the recommended woodland improvements an application for funding has been submitted to Forestry Commision Scotland under its Woodland In and Around Towns initiative. This bid was submitted on 31st January and the Council is likely to be informed of its success or otherwise by May this year.
Woodland and Open Habitat Recommended Management Works
The following improvements are proposed as part of the LNR designation.
The accompanying map shows the compartmental unit system of the Woodland and Open Space Management Plan.
Compartments 1 - 7: Woodland compartments
- Enrich ground flora through planting of local provenance plants
- Remove invasive Rhododendron ponticum and control regrowth to encourage understory development.
- Woodland thinning works (Cpts 2a, 3b, 6c, 6d).
- Remove exotic understorey (Cpts 2a, 3a, 6a).
- Group fell exotic canopy (Cpts 6b).
- Enrichment tree planting (Cpts 2a, 3a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8).
- Remove unsafe trees as appropriate, to ensure continued safe public access.
- Upgrade 1.6km of footpath (Cpts 2b, 3c, 5c, 6a, 6c).
Compartment 1a: Former grazing field
- Assess future needs and develop land use plan
Compartment 3c: Former horse grazed fields
- Develop new access routes, create meadows and extend woodlands
Compartment 4b: Amenity grassland area with burn to woodland edge
- Improve diversity of marshy burnside vegetation
- Devlop a broad meadow strip parallel to the burn
Compartment 4c: Mature parkland trees and mown grass
- Retain parkland setting of trees and grassland
- Locally diversify grassland through modified cutting regimes
- Investigate enriching ground flora in shaded, low-lying western area
Compartment 5b: Old zoo area - amenity grass with some poorly draining zones
- Assess feasibility of pond or wetland creation
- Develop activity area and informal meeting/picnic area
Compartment 5c: Amenity managed grass with area of meadow
- Manage the meadow through annual cut regime
- Extend meadow to south and modify mowing regime
- Cut informal grass tracks through meadows
- Maintain and enhance marginal hedgerows
Compartment 8: Habitat mosaic of developing woodland, scrub and grassland glades
- Meadow manage a network of grassland glades
- Maintain an informal path route
- Diversify scrub through enrichment planting
- Remove undesireable exotic species
- Create a meadow strip parallel to the path
Compartment 9a and b: Mature trees and amenity grassland
- Diversify woodland ground flora and marginal grasslands
For your information please see link to a copy of Linn Park Woodland and Open Habitat Management Plan and associated maps:
For open habitat proposals please send any enquiries to
Francesca Pandolfi:
LES Conservation,
Land and Environmental Services,
231 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1RX.
E-mail: francesca.pandolfi@glasgow.gov.uk
Tel.: 0141 287 3753
For woodland and access proposals please send any enquiries to
Ian Boyd
Assistant Woodland Officer
Land and Environmental Services
Glasgow City Council
231 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1RX
Phone 0141 287 5920
E-mail: ian.boyd@glasgow.gov.uk