Object
Chichester Local Plan 2021 - 2039: Proposed Submission
Representation ID: 5066
Received: 16/03/2023
Respondent: Sussex Wildlife Trust
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Do not consider current boundary of allocation to be sound. Do not support narrowing of Strategic Wildlife Corridor around proposed allocation (A8) since consultation in 2021. CDC to provide justification for narrowing of Corridor.? Understood from 2021 technical consultation that Corridor was shifted west to incorporate bat data commissioned in part by CDC to inform locations of Strategic Wildlife Corridors, information is available as part of the Local Plan evidence base. SWT does not consider it possible to avoid harm to priority species and habitats in current allocation boundary for A8 due to large area of important woodland habitat for birds and bats in north eastern section of site allocation boundary that would be lost as a result of development.
SWT propose that the allocation boundary of A8 be amended to take it outside the area identified as the modified Pagham to Westhampnett Strategic Wildlife Corridor in the 2021 consultation. In addition sufficient buffers must be incorporated within the new redline boundary to protect the integrity and function of the Strategic Wildlife Corridor.
See attached representation.