Comment

Representation ID: 29891

Received: 01/04/2021

Respondent: Natural England

We advise that consideration should be given to further inclusion of references to environmental restoration at bullet point 7 of paragraph 1.2.8, and at bullet point 1 of paragraph 1.2.9, as follows:

Protection and restoration of 1 special protection area, 4 SSSIs, 4 local nature reserves, 108 local wildlife sites and 16 local geographical sites.

Protecting and restoring our environmental resources and requiring new development to leave biodiversity in a measurably better state than beforehand, contribute towards mitigating impacts in some of our most valuable landscape and habitat areas and minimise impact on heritage assets.