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Representation ID: 3287

Received: 22/03/2021

Respondent: Wilsden Parish Council

Policy EN2 refers to designated and undesignated Wildlife Habitat Networks. We propose that latter can be identified through a Neighbourhood Plan. While we support the principle of using a tool such as the DEFRA Biodiversity Metric we note that the current version considers the biodiversity of hedgerows and rivers to calculate the impact of linear features. This has the potential to underestimate the biodiversity of the district’s landscape because it does not consider dry stone walls which are key linear features for much of the district.