There are a number of countryside management partnerships in Surrey involving many different partners, neighbouring districts and boroughs and various conservation organisations.
They all broadly have the same objective: to maintain and sustainably enhance our green spaces for future generations and for bio-diversity.
Surrey Countryside Partnerships team
The Surrey Countryside Partnerships team is an established countryside management partnership service, working with the vital support of volunteers, with and within local communities, across Surrey and neighbouring areas of South London.
The Team comprises:
- Downlands Partnership - works predominately on rare chalk grassland sites across northeast Surrey and into Croydon and Sutton, including the provision of a conservation grazing service.
- Lower Mole Partnership - works in woodlands and on commons and to improve public access across north Surrey and into Kingston.
- Surrey Heathland Partnership - helps to manage rare lowland heathland sites in Guildford and Woking, centred around Pirbright.
Other countryside conservation partnerships in Surrey
- Basingstoke Canal Authority manages the canal on behalf of Surrey and Hampshire County Councils.
- Gatwick Greenspace Partnership works with Sussex Wildlife Trust to protect countryside near Gatwick Airport.
- Blackwater Valley Partnership works along the River Blackwater bordering Hampshire around Farnborough, Aldershot and Farnham.
- Colne Valley Partnership looks after farmland, woodland and water extending northwards from Staines into Buckinghamshire.
- Thames Landscape Strategy aims to protect the River Thames around Kew, Hampton Court and Weybridge.
- Thames Basin Heaths Partnership works to protect heathland sites and their wildlife in Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire.
