A lake restoration plan for Hatchet Pond, New Forest SSS1

Hatchet Pond and Hatchet Little Pond are two waterbodies which form unit 449 of the New Forest SSSI together with other small and temporary ponds and the surrounding wet heath and mire. Hatchet Pond is a 6.7ha SAC lake (Annex I habitat: Nutrient-poor shallow waters with aquatic vegetation on sandy plains; H3110) which was created in the 18th Century to provide power for an iron mill and is now a popular tourist spot and coarse fishing site. A Common Standards Monitoring condition assessment was undertaken by UCL in...