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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

Representation Summary:

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.

Change suggested by respondent:

County Wildlife Sites should be added to the list of locations/features where development should not be located within.