Regulation 18 Draft Local Plan

Object

Representation ID: 2120

Received: 24/05/2024

Respondent: Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership

The GLNP broadly supports the vision of the plan, especially references to enhancing environmental assets and promoting opportunities for them to be enjoyed by all. Although, the GLNP is pleased to see a commitment to balancing the development needs of the District with the protection and enhancement of the natural environment. We would like to see an explicit commitment to nature recovery within the vision. It is felt that this, on top of the commitment to protect and enhance the natural environment, would ensure that the plan’s vision for the future of the area would be truly positive, as required by paragraph 15 of the NPPF. Especially in relation to the environmental objective of sustainable development (NPPF paragraph 8c).

Support

Representation ID: 2121

Received: 24/05/2024

Respondent: Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership

Supports Objective 11 as it recognises the role open space and green infrastructure has in meeting health, social and community needs.
Supports objective 12 and its commitment to protect and enhance the District’s natural assets and blue green infrastructure. It would be useful to include reference to biodiversity net gain within objective 12.
By only referring to biodiversity net gain in Objective 13, which is focused on climate change, its role in nature recovery and addressing the biodiversity crisis may be undermined.
Supports objective 13 and its commitment to mitigating against and adapting to climate change contributing towards he requirement in NPPF paragraph 158 for plans to take “a proactive approach to mitigating and adapting to climate change”.

Support

Representation ID: 2122

Received: 24/05/2024

Respondent: Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership

The GLNP supports the inclusion of a requirement for development to consider how they can proactively enhance the natural environment in point k. It also supports the reference to green infrastructure’s ability to store carbon. This is in line with the environmental objective of sustainable development as laid out in paragraph 8c, and other related paragraphs, of the NPPF.

Support

Representation ID: 2123

Received: 24/05/2024

Respondent: Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership

Once prepared, the GLNP would like to see any policy include the role of nature in addressing climate change and its impacts, through nature-based solutions, including landscape scale projects, and green infrastructure. This would contribute to the environmental objective of sustainable development as laid out in paragraph 8c of the NPPF as well as other paragraphs including 20d, 102, and 159a.

Object

Representation ID: 2124

Received: 24/05/2024

Respondent: Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership

The GLNP feels that to bring paragraph 10.4 in line with the associated paragraph in the NPPF (180), either bullet point one should include “biodiversity sites of value” or bullet point three should include reference to enhancing biodiversity.
in light of mandatory biodiversity net gain, which requires there to be a net gain in biodiversity, and the biodiversity duty (NERC Act, 2006), it is felt that “where possible” should be replaced with “where appropriate”. This removes the potential for ‘net gains in’ and ‘enhancement of’ biodiversity to not be achieved while acknowledging that there are wider challenges to achieving them.
Suggests wording changes to bullet point 3.
Supports the including of paragraph 10.6.

Support

Representation ID: 2125

Received: 24/05/2024

Respondent: Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership

The GLNP supports this policy. It is pleased to see reference to the wider multiple benefits of the natural environment in line with paragraph 180b of the NPPF, and the commitment to refusing applications which would adversely impact irreplaceable habitats, in line with paragraph 186c of the NPPF.
The GLNP also supports reference to the Local Nature Recovery Strategy and Geodiversity Strategy, ensuring that the enhancement of the natural environment and geodiversity assets are informed by existing strategic objectives.
The GLNP is also pleased to see the requirement for compensation and mitigation measures to be in place prior to the start of development.

Object

Representation ID: 2126

Received: 24/05/2024

Respondent: Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership

Supports the inclusion of policy focusing on biodiversity net gain, however, it feels that the content of the policy should be revisited following the publication of secondary legislation and associated planning guidance.

The GLNP supports the inclusion of paragraph 10.9, but feels that it needs to be updated following the commencement of mandatory biodiversity net gain. The paragraph should include the date from which the biodiversity net gain condition came into effect for major development and small sites.
The GLNP supports the inclusion of this paragraph 10.11, but suggest the following amendment for clarification.
“These maps identify known areas of high biodiversity value which make up the core of the District’s wider ecological network. It also identifies opportunities to enhance this network through improved habitat management and habitat creation”

Object

Representation ID: 2127

Received: 24/05/2024

Respondent: Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership

The GLNP supports this policy and the reference to Green Infrastructure Mapping prepared by the Partnership. However, it would support reference to protecting the functionality of green infrastructure, with the inserting ‘or its functionality’ after text “Proposals that cause loss or harm to this network,” into paragraph 3 of the policy.