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Background documents
Representation ID: 93815
Received: 06/10/2019
Respondent: Mr Jodie Caley
Although AOS E is not an SPA or SAC, these areas cannot be viewed in isolation. If you treat these areas as independent islands of wildlife, you will remove the connectivity between the sites and the habitat in between.
We currently live within 250m of the proposed area of search, and we have nesting nightjars, goshawks, red kites and buzzards. We can see and hear them from our property.
We also have glow worms and slow worms, common lizards, adders and grass snakes. All of these animals are protected species. To remove the area that is proposed would destroy these animals and their habitat.
There may be distance between where AOS E lies and the nearest official SPA/SAC, but that doesn't mean there aren't protected species living within it.
There are a large number of protected species living within AOS E. Although it is not an SPA or SAC, this doesn't negate the fact that they are here, they exist, and to remove the habitat (in an area that is already ravaged by intensive agriculture) just so a Belgian company or an apathetic British government can make some more money is quite frankly an outrage.
Although AOS E is not an SPA or SAC, these areas cannot be viewed in isolation. If you treat these areas as independent islands of wildlife, you will remove the connectivity between the sites and the habitat in between.
We currently live within 250m of the proposed area of search, and we have nesting nightjars, goshawks, red kites and buzzards. We can see and hear them from our property.
We also have glow worms and slow worms, common lizards, adders and grass snakes. All of these animals are protected species. To remove the area that is proposed would destroy these animals and their habitat.
There may be distance between where AOS E lies and the nearest official SPA/SAC, but that doesn't mean there aren't protected species living within it.
There are a large number of protected species living within AOS E. Although it is not an SPA or SAC, this doesn't negate the fact that they are here, they exist, and to remove the habitat (in an area that is already ravaged by intensive agriculture) just so a Belgian company or an apathetic British government can make some more money is quite frankly an outrage.