Object
Village Housing Options and Settlement Boundaries
Representation ID: 61604
Received: 17/01/2014
Respondent: Natural England
Representation Summary:
Preferred sites are located within an area of wood pasture and parkland, which is a Priority Habitat. Sites 3 and 4 are brownfield sites, sites 1 and 2 are not, and development here has the potential in losses of Priority Habitat. Sites 1 and 4 are adjacent to The Lunch local site.
The local authority should take the potential ecological implications of these site allocations into account, considering paragraphs of the NPPF and the biodiversity duty established under the NERC Act 2006. We recommend requiring site master planning and specifying the need to design-in habitat retention and enhancement.
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