6. Wildlife corridors: Value of mature trees should be given top priority whether they are within recognised corridor or not since they will represent a corridor centre where there is no other evidence.
8. Minimising energy consumption to achieve 19% improvement and maximising energy supplied renewables to 10% is very irresponsibly low. They are disgracefully low improvement targets in view of the climate emergency and the huge advances of renewable energy. The statement should include the facilitation of renewable community supplies and banning of individual home boilers for heating. This alone would reduce energy consumption and personal energy costs. Solar panels, Solar tiles and or Solar glass in windows should be mandatory now as they are in many parts of France. Trees should also be included as much as possible in every development to boost CO2 sequestering cooling effects for residence and support the rapidly diminishing wildlife.
I would also like to suggest making small communities more individually resilient and include more encouragement to have local water treatment by constructed reed beds, which are exceptionally low tech, low energy but are a highly efficient system for treating local black water now. They produce clean water to EU bathing water standards.”