Preferred Options 2025
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Preferred Options 2025
Do you broadly support the proposals in the Introduction? If you have any additional points to raise with regards to this chapter please include them here.
Representation ID: 107133
Received: 24/02/2025
Respondent: Natural England
Natural England welcomes the submission of HRA and SEA for the local Plan.
Natural England would expect significant mitigation measures to be secured to protect these
designated sites from the proposed new settlements BW and F1 due to their size/scale and
proximity.
Criteria-based policies are required to guide development and should include application of the mitigation hierarchy and how the direct, indirect and cumulative impacts of development on designated sites will be addressed. Where mitigation or avoidance is not possible the site should not be allocated.
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Preferred Options 2025
Do you agree with the approach laid out in Draft Policy Direction-49- Agricultural Land?
Representation ID: 107134
Received: 24/02/2025
Respondent: Natural England
This policy direction can be strengthened by providing more protection to best and most versatile (BMV) agricultural land and recognising the important role soils play in carbon storage, flooding and other environmental elements such as climate change, green infrastructure and Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG).
Sustainable soil management should aim to minimise risks to the ecosystem services which soils provide, through provision of suitable soil handling and management advice. The planning authority
should ensure that sufficient site-specific soil survey data is available to inform decision making. To include, for example, assessment of suitability of soil properties for type of landscaping and planting proposed to inform beneficial re-use, appropriate soil management, and drainage, where required.
Provide protection to Peatlands as they help to store carbon.
