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Revised Development Strategy
RDS3: The Council's Preferred Option for the broad location of development is to:
Representation ID: 55340
Received: 26/07/2013
Respondent: Warwickshire Wildlife Trust
RDS outlines that up to 1,000 homes will be distributed amongst primary and secondary villages in the district. The baseline ecological data for each of these listed villages should therefore be reviewed and updated to ensure that, in accordance with NPPF, any development that comes forward in these areas is justified and informed by up-to-date information about the local natural environment.
Recommend that the Stratford-on-Avon District Ecological and Geological Study of Local Service Village 2012 is used as a model to update the ecological baseline.
The following sites listed in the RDS are inclusive of, or are adjacent to, a statutory Local Nature Reserve (LNR) or a county important Local Wildlife Site (LWS): Myton Garden Suburb; South of Gallows Hill; Lower Heathcote Farm; Former Severn Trent Works; Grove Farm; East of Whitnash; Land at Thickthorn
The value/importance of these features, and the level of protection assigned to them in the NPPF must be upheld in the RDS so that the preferred site allocations can be achieved without any net loss or degradation of these county important assets.
The following sites in the RDS are inclusive of, or are adjacent to, a potential Local Wildlife Site (pLWS):
Site Allocation Potential Local Wildlife Site South of Gallows Hill; East of Whitnash; Golf Lane/ Fieldgate Lane. Any site listed as a pLWS should therefore be treated as a LWS in the RDS unless survey and assessment against the standardised criteria suggests otherwise.
All preferred sites within the RDS are likely to include habitats and species of principal importance for nature conservation, as listed under section 41 of the NERC Act. The local authority should have regard to the potential presence of priority habitats and species within all preferred site allocations. Current revision of the Warwick District Local Plan is not inclusive of a specific biodiversity policy at this stage.
Include robust policies to ensure that all site allocations make a proportional contribution to the delivery of biodiversity enhancement and green infrastructure in the district, linked to the identified green infrastructure projects and the aims and objectives of the Sub-regional GI document.
Adopt the sub-regional GI strategy and associated Biodiversity Offsetting metrics.
Identify the Princethorpe Woodlands as a Biodiversity Opportunity Area within the local plan to demonstrate that the local authority has adopted a landscape scale approach to deliver biodiversity enhancements in the district.
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Support
Revised Development Strategy
RDS3: The Council's Preferred Option for the broad location of development is to:
Representation ID: 60348
Received: 26/07/2013
Respondent: Warwickshire Wildlife Trust
Pleased to note that the RDS does largely recognise that, for the majority of the sites listed above, wildlife sites are a constraint to development and that the green infrastructure proposals do outline mitigation measures where needed.
Pleased to note the buffering and extension proposals around the Tach and Whitnash Brooks as well as the 50m buffer for the ancient woodland habitats at Thickthorn and Glasshouse Spinney.
These measures must be supported by a robust policy for the protection and enhancement of wildlife sites within the Local Plan.
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