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No

ID sylw: 100714

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Drayton Manor Farms Ltd

Asiant : Stansgate Planning

No.
Whilst paragraph 187 of the Framework requires planning policies and decisions to contribute to
and enhance the natural and local environment there is currently no requirement, or indeed
reference, to Environmental Net Gain at a national level.
The Draft Policy Direction provides no justification for the inclusion of an ENG policy, nor any
information about how such a policy would function in practice. There are no other examples of
adopted Local Plan policies requiring ENG or any well-developed metric for measuring ENG. It is
likely to harm viability, duplicate BNG requirements, cause longer lead-in times and the uncertainty
could delay the deliverability of sites. As such this policy direction should be removed from the
emerging Plan