Chichester Local Plan 2021 - 2039: Proposed Submission

Object

Representation ID: 5682

Received: 17/03/2023

Respondent: Salthill Trust

Agent: Henry Adams LLP

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Object on grounds that Council has not published evidence base nor set out methodology in Reg 19 consultation. Council have not considered future development potential of sites within corridors or that built environment and nature can work in unison. Failed to fully consult those affected by SWC and other stakeholders; are applying additional layer of planning restraint in District already highly constrained.

Comment noted. The Strategic Wildlife Corridors Background Paper and corresponding appendices contain the evidence and the methodology for identifying habitat.
The Council has undertaken three separate rounds of consultation on the strategic wildlife corridors, as proposed in their various forms, since 2018. Landowners who had submitted sites to the Council for the HELAA were targeted through a technical consultation in 2021.
It is acknowledged that the District (and Plan area) is highly constrained; this has concentrated development pressures the least constrained areas and has increased the need for wildlife corridors to be established in order to protect those routes of highest quality habitat for protected species.