Object
Village Housing Options and Settlement Boundaries
Representation ID: 61293
Received: 17/01/2014
Respondent: Natural England
Representation Summary:
-This site would isolate Smith's Covert, an area of Ancient Semi-Natural Woodland.
-Encircling woodland with development could also increase pressures from recreation and anti-social behaviour.
-The NPPF promotes the protection and re-establishment of ecological networks as does the Lawton Review, Making Space for Nature: A review of England's Wildlife Sites and Ecological Network (2010).
-If development does go ahead for this site it should include measures to reduce the effects of the isolation of Smith's Covert. This could be done by providing green links through the development into the countryside and utilising the landscape and soft SuDS.
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