Comment

Representation ID: 29263

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 CU2/H Cullingworth Mill: derelict mill site. Opportunity to open Manywells Beck as Green-Blue Infrastructure and to achieve the riverine element of BNG.