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Railway Lineside Habitat Audit

Lengths of Railway Corridor and Extent of Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation by Borough

Borough

Railway corridor (Railtrack/ LUL/ Tramlink/ DLR) (km)

Railway lineside SINCs (ha) a

Borough corridor as % of total London resource

Barking & Dagenham

15.74

2.4

2.0

Barnet

34.89

28.5

4.3

Bexley

24.86

N

3.1

Brent

41.40

93.0

5.2

Bromley

51.12

N

6.4

Camden

18.57

25.1

2.3

City of London

1.80

N

0.2

Croydon

49.69b

31.3

6.2

Ealing

33.03

162.7

4.1

Enfield

34.74

45.2

4.4

Greenwich

19.94

N

2.5

Hackney

10.66

5.1

1.3

Hammersmith & Fulham

17.22

25.0

2.2

Haringey

19.20

12.3

2.4

Harrow

22.70

17.1

2.8

Havering

28.50

N

3.6

Hillingdon

27.69

5.3

3.5

Hounslow

22.52

2.5

2.8

Islington

10.07

34.2

1.3

Kensington & Chelsea

6.56

24.6

0.8

Kingston upon Thames

15.99

1.9

2.0

Lambeth

23.41

28.9

2.9

Lewisham

41.86

86.0

5.3

Merton

28.70

53.0

3.6

Newham

37.47

50.0

4.8

Redbridge

13.43

41.0

1.7

Richmond upon Thames

25.73

2.9

3.2

Southwark

22.23

27.2

2.8

Sutton

17.92

17.8

2.2

Tower Hamlets

22.07c

0.0

2.8

Waltham Forest

25.27

2.0

3.2

Wandsworth

27.51

13.3

3.4

Westminster

4.08

0.0

0.5

London Total

796.57 ha

838.3 ha

  

a = Areas identified by the London Ecology Unit
b = Includes over 8km of new Tramlink corridors, but not street lines
c = Includes over 8km of the raised tracks of the Docklands Light Railway
N = Linesides not surveyed; to be identified.

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