Comment

Representation ID: 29261

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Environment Agency

We note that the following sites offer opportunity to open up lengths of previously culverted watercourse, with benefits to Green-Blue Infrastructure and Biodiversity Net Gain. We would like to see this listed within the paragraphs on opportunities and development considerations, and wish to see the opening of these watercourses promoted as a benefit to the environment and a contribution to green space and the Wildlife Habitat Network:

o KY30/H Beck Street/Bridge Street: vacant land formerly occupied by a mill. As stated an opportunity to incorporate Green Infrastructure, but also to include significant improvement to blue infrastructure by opening up North Beck, using the beck as a feature on site with public access such as a pocket park.