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Representation ID: 29313

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Environment Agency

Relevant Policies, Plans & Programmes - Appendix A

River Basin Management Plan

We encourage more explicit inclusion and reference to the Humber River Basin Management Plan (RBMP), as a spate plan to be considered. The Humber RBMP sets out the state of the water environment within the Humber River Basin District and indicates where local government can support other regulators and operators in applying the relevant legislation and policy to improve the water environment. This is in the process of being updated, with a new plan due to be published in early 2022.
We recommend that the objectives of WFD, where all waterbodies should reach good ecological status by 2027 or sooner, should be considered in the development of environmental planning policy to ensure that the riverine environment is incorporated in nature conservation. Additional information on WFD is provided within our Local Plan consultation responses, including a map of WFD status for ecological elements within the Yorkshire Dales (this currently only include Yorkshire detail, but we aim to provide the whole area in due course).
Further details and the RBMPs themselves can all be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/river-basin-management-plans-2015