Rolls-Royce Motor Cars (R-RMC) supports the principle of draft Policy P14 which sets out the green infrastructure requirements and expectations from new development. R-RMC recognises the positive impact that green infrastructure provides with respect to health and wellbeing, biodiversity, climate change resilience and other social, economic and environmental factors.

However, as part of this policy, proposals must demonstrate that a stringent list of criteria have been addressed, including but not limited to ensuring that proposals ‘do not lead to the dissection of the linear network of cycle ways, public rights of way, bridleways and ecological corridors’.

While the principle of this position is understood and supported, R-RMC considers that the policy and/or supplementary text could acknowledge that some green infrastructure (including public rights of way) may need to be rerouted or re-provided to facilitate development to meet the area’s needs. This flexibility is provided in certain site-specific policies (such as Goodwood expansion site policy A21) but could be reflected in this policy to apply to relevant sites, subject to appropriate consents and sensitive design considerations.