Object

Proposed Submission Core Strategy

Representation ID: 21184

Received: 10/11/2011

Respondent: Natural England

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Representation Summary:

Policy OSS3: Use of Development Boundaries
(vii) environmental considerations, including the need to conserve designated areas of national and local landscape, archaeological, geological, ecological or historical importance;
This may be addressing development control on designated nature conservation sites but it needs to be more explicit, or the term ecological may be referring to functionally related land to Natura 2000 sites (N2K) as it was used in the Shepway core strategy from the HRA, clarification is needed on this if that is the case.

Full text:

Policy OSS3: Use of Development Boundaries
(vii) environmental considerations, including the need to conserve designated areas of national and local landscape, archaeological, geological, ecological or historical importance;
This may be addressing development control on designated nature conservation sites but it needs to be more explicit, or the term ecological may be referring to functionally related land to Natura 2000 sites (N2K) as it was used in the Shepway core strategy from the HRA, clarification is needed on this if that is the case.