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Representation ID: 5358

Received: 24/03/2021

Respondent: Mr Bernard Poulter

Current Core Strategy Policy SC8 (now to be superseded by SP11) is a watered down version of the original, proposed by the Councils own HRA producers, and considered to provide reasonable protection for the conservation objectives of the SPA/SAC. This was then effectively re-written by the agents of the Property Developers , CEG, during the Examination in public stage of the Core Strategy. The idea that developers could EVER decide what was in the best interest of the wildlife living and using a profitable potential development site is , at the very least, naïve. It assumes a level of altruism that simply does not exist. It MUST be that the Council decide on independent HRA's carried out on ALL land within, as a very minimum, the 2.5 km Zone. To combine the 2.5 km zone & the 7KM ignores the works included in the bibliography references of your own SPD