Regulation 18 Draft Local Plan

Object

Representation ID: 1798

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

A greater emphasis on developing South Kesteven with core principles on enhancing the natural environment would reflect the underpinning of the Environment Act and Chapter 15 of the NPPF.
Suggested wording for inclusion in the Vision, following on in the paragraph on climate:
“….and the impacts of disruptive weather. The natural environment will be playing a critical and greater role than now in enabling our communities to adapt to climate change, which will also go a significant way to recovering nature, with connected wildlife corridors throughout South Kesteven.”

Support

Representation ID: 1799

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust are supportive of renewable energy generation, providing it also contributes to the enhancement of the natural environment and biodiversity in general.

Object

Representation ID: 1800

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

We understand the Councils criteria as laid out in the consultation, but there is no recognition that renewable energy developments also have the potential to recover nature and deliver multiple benefits if designed correctly, such as, deliver natural flood management.
For example, South Kesteven, and Lincolnshire as a whole, has seen a significant increase in the number of proposed solar farms which present an opportunity to develop areas of multiple land-uses. The large areas such project often require present an opportunity to recover biodiversity at a landscape scale while increasing habitat connectivity, and delivering natural carbon capture through introduction of hedgerows or tree screening. These areas can also still contribute to food production, via grazing flocks and/or intercropping. Developers should be pushed to be as innovative as possible in regards to addressing public concern about national food production, and securing nature’s recovery.

Object

Representation ID: 1801

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

Proposed Mixed-Use Allocation SKPR278 is adjacent to Whalebone Lane Verges and Old Somerby Road Verge. It is also in close proximity (within 2km) to four other LWSs of Aveling Barford’s Industrial Site; River Witham, Little Ponton and Saltersford Valley.
We wish to see any associated applications provide measures to reduce any potential impacts on this sensitive site, as well as opportunities to integrate them into the recovery of the local environment by securing management for the LWSs if presently not under positive management and through building nature corridors within development between such sites - SKPR-278, SKPR-65, and SKPR-262.

Object

Representation ID: 1802

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

Proposed Mixed-Use Allocation SKPR65 is adjacent to Cold Harbour Road Verges, Cold Harbour Road Verges East and Blue Harbour Road Verges. The site is also near to Ropsley Rise Wood, Old Somerby to Ropsley Rise Wood Road Verges.
We wish to see any associated applications provide measures to reduce any potential impacts on this sensitive site, as well as opportunities to integrate them into the recovery of the local environment by securing management for the LWSs if presently not under positive management and through building nature corridors within development between such sites - SKPR-278, SKPR-65, and SKPR-262.

Object

Representation ID: 1803

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

Proposed Employment Allocation SKPR262 is in close proximity to The River Witham (LWS) and Long Bennington.
We wish to see any associated applications provide measures to reduce any potential impacts on this sensitive site, as well as opportunities to integrate them into the recovery of the local environment by securing management for the LWSs if presently not under positive management and through building nature corridors within development between such sites - SKPR-278, SKPR-65, and SKPR-262.

Support

Representation ID: 1804

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

This policy is generally supported.

Object

Representation ID: 1805

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

The inclusion of paragraph 10.9 is supported, but it is felt that it needs to be updated following the commencement of mandatory biodiversity net gain (BNG).
The paragraph should include the date from which BNG condition came into effect for small and major development sites.

Object

Representation ID: 1806

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

The inclusion of this policy is welcome. We would however suggest that amendments are made following secondary legislation and recently published guidance (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/biodiversity-net-gain).

- Suggest change for paragraph 4 to “Statutory Biodiversity Metric” as opposed to “Natural England’s Biodiversity Metric”.
- Provides suggested change to paragraph 5 to reflect the publication of the biodiversity net gain hierarchy.
- Provides suggested rewording paragraph 6 following secondary legislation and recent published guidance.
- suggest changes are made to paragraph 7 relating to the determination of planning applications based in a biodiversity net gain.
- Paragraph 8 should be amended to reflect secondary legislation by explaining that only significant on-site enchantments need to be secured and managed for 30 years

Object

Representation ID: 1807

Received: 25/04/2024

Respondent: Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

The inclusion of this policy is supported by the Trust. Provides suggestions to expand the policy to consider and emphasise the multiple benefits of green infrastructure.