Comment
Minerals and Waste Local Plan: Pre-Submission Publication
Representation ID: 99341
Received: 18/12/2022
Respondent: Norfolk Wildlife Trust
We support the need for planning conditions and or longer term planning obligations where there is a clear need but it is clear from the supporting documents for the Defra biodiversity net gain metric that some habitats require longer than the typical 5 year aftercare period normally attached to minerals consents in order to be successfully created. We therefore recommend that the policy wording is modified in order to ensure it is effective.
We therefore recommend that the policy wording is modified in order to ensure it is effective, changing the first sentence of the second paragraph to read ‘Planning conditions and/or longer-term planning obligations will be used to ensure that detailed annual management reports and … to ensure that a detailed annual management where there is a clear need for a longer aftercare period in order to successfully deliver the restoration goals’.