Publication Draft

Comment

Representation ID: 6733

Received: 05/11/2009

Respondent: Warwickshire County Council - Heritage & Culture (Museums)

It iis suggested that the following comments are included:
Para 17.2: "The Habitat Regulations and PPS 9 remind us that important biodiversity exists outside statutory and non-statutory sites and that its survival requires the ability to move throughout the landscape to enable genetic exchange and be adaptable to climate change."
Para 17.5: It is recommended that Local Sites (through the Wildlife Sites Partnership and the Warwickshire Geological Conservation Group), Habitat Biodiversity Audit, Local Biodiversity Action Plan (not strategy) and Warwickshire Biological Record Centre (WBRC) data sets are added and/or amended to the evidence base. The WBRC should be added in response to the Sustainability Appraisal as this report suggests monitoring impacts on species. The monitoring of planning impact on habitats, sites and EU protected species can be achieved through the WCC and the WBRC as an extension to the existing service level agreement.

Comment

Representation ID: 6735

Received: 05/11/2009

Respondent: Warwickshire County Council - Heritage & Culture (Museums)

Strongly support the production of a Supplementary Planning Document and as connectivity and networks need to be included would suggest that this is carried out at a sub-regional level to fulfil WCC Biodiversity Strategy objectives. The reasons to support this approach have been outlined in the response to Para 17 (page 75) above.

Comment

Representation ID: 6738

Received: 05/11/2009

Respondent: Warwickshire County Council - Heritage & Culture (Museums)

- This Flood Risk policy area should be informed by the Habitat Biodiversity Audit as an evidence base to identify, promote and protect natural flood storage areas. Such areas could be identified within an SPD as areas of restraint.