 The main habitat types in the area are heathland, woodland and grassland, all of which are found in both urban and rural contexts.Between the West Midlands conurbation and Coventry is a stretch of green belt land roughly across known as the "Meriden Gap", which retains a strongly rural character, and is the site of a number of SSSIs including Berkswell Marsh.A smaller green belt is located between Birmingham, Walsall and West Bromwich which includes Sutton Park in Sutton Coldfield.