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Form ID: 73248

Respondent: West Northamptonshire Council

Option B3a: Introduce Special Landscape Areas across all of South Warwickshire

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Option B3b: Maintain Special landscape Areas within Stratford-on-Avon District but don't introduce them within Warwick District

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Option B3c: Discard Special Landscape Areas and bolster general landscape policy

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Form ID: 82339

Respondent: West Northamptonshire Council

Q-B9: Should the plan include a policy requiring the safeguarding of sites of national importance, sites of local importance, and other non-designated sites known to make a positive contribution to biodiversity or geodiversity; unless the benefits of the proposal clearly outweigh the need to protect the site. Where possible conserve and enhance these sites.

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Q-B10: Please add any comments you wish to make about a biodiverse and environmentally resilient South Warwickshire

The Stratford-on-Avon Core Strategy includes a number of Special Landscape Area (SLA) designations. The Ironstone Hills Fringe SLA is consistent with and contiguous to similar SLA designations in West Northamptonshire which have been confirmed in the relatively recently adopted Part 2 Local Plans for Daventry and South Northamptonshire. Landscape evidence commissioned for the new Local Plan for West Northamptonshire has confirmed the appropriateness of these designations. The continuation and potential extension of SLA designations to cover Warwick District would be supported by West Northamptonshire Council. Discussions have taken place over recent years between Stratford on Avon District Council and our predecessor councils regarding the potential designation of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty for the Northamptonshire Ironstone Uplands. This culminated in an expression of interest being submitted to Natural England and whilst this is not currently being taken forward the potential remains for this to be considered further in the future.

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