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Representation ID: 29321

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Environment Agency

Relevant Policies, Plans & Programmes - Appendix A

Biodiversity 2020

We welcome the inclusion of the Biodiversity 2020: A Strategy for England’s Wildlife and Ecosystem Services, Defra (2011). We would go a step further with the implications and recommend that proactive consideration is taken of biodiversity value in terms of when assessing potential site allocations. This does also include aquatic environments (rivers etc).
Groundwater
Reference should be included to ‘The Environment Agency’s approach to groundwater protection’ document and the included position statements. This should be a consideration in terms of assessing the local plan and potential site allocations in terms of groundwater. Any policy should not pose an unacceptable risk of pollution to controlled waters by mobilising potential contaminants in the ground. For example, policy involving SuDS.

Strategic Flood Risk Assessment

An SFRA examines how sources of flooding may impact on development. This should be included as a key local document within the SA. We welcome continued working with you on this in the future. Further detail is set out elsewhere in our Local Plan response.

EU Exit

We recommend you ensure that the correct references are made to all EU legislation that has now been transposed into UK (or England and Wales) law.