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Chichester Local Plan 2021 - 2039: Proposed Submission
Representation ID: 5039
Received: 16/03/2023
Respondent: Sussex Wildlife Trust
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? Not specified
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Plan should seek to demonstrate how delivery of Nature Recovery Network and more localised Local Nature Recovery Strategies are going to be incorporated in the spatial element of identifying allocations for development, consistent with s179 of NPPF 2021. Planning for nature’s recovery will be vital to support ambitions of plan. In relation to Objective 2: Natural Environment, it will be vital for the spatial element of the Plan to consider how this is achieved through its own actions and also policy hooks. This will enable the emerging Local Nature Recovery Strategy to work effectively with the Local Plan and be a key driver for nature’s recovery over the lifetime of the plan (NPPG Paragraph: 010). SWT is supportive of CDC already taking progressive action with the identification and inclusion of Strategic Wildlife Corridors, consistent with section 179 of NPPF 2021.
SWT wants this section of the draft plan to demonstrate more clearly how the spatial strategy is enabling nature’s recovery. The plan should seek to demonstrate how the delivery of the Nature Recovery Network and the more localised Local Nature Recovery Strategies are going to be incorporated in the spatial element of identifying allocations for development. This would be consistent with section 179 of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) 2021.
See attached representation.