Support
Local Plan Review: Preferred Approach 2016-2035
Representation ID: 2818
Received: 07/02/2019
Respondent: Sussex Wildlife Trust
Representation Summary:
The Sussex Wildlife Trust is supportive of Local Plans having policies in place to protect, conserve and enhance and deliver net gains to biodiversity. Therefore we welcome CDC continued commitment to biodiversity through the inclusion of this policy.
We support CDC's statement in section (7.172) which recognises that conserving biodiversity must not be limited to protected/designated sites. We are proposing that the term prevent in this section is changed to avoid in order to align better with the mitigation hierarchy as per the NPPF
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