Object
Minerals and Waste Local Plan: Pre-Submission Publication
Representation ID: 99340
Received: 18/12/2022
Respondent: Norfolk Wildlife Trust
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
In order to ensure the plan is effective and does not set policy MP2 against policy MW1, we recommend that County Wildlife Sites are added to the list provided in bullet points at the end of the policy. The CWS network in Norfolk consists currently of approximately 1400 sites, the safeguarding of which is vital to the future of Norfolk’s wildlife. With legal targets in the 2021 Environment Act for nature’s recovery, a duty on public bodies to have regard to nature’s conservation and enhancement in the NERC Act and the Environment Act, and a policy requirement in policy MW1 to safeguard and provide gains for biodiversity through planning decisions, it would be counterproductive to not afford the CWS network the same policy protection under policy MP2.
County Wildlife Sites should be added to the list of locations/features where development should not be located within.