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Support

Land North of Cherry Hinton SPD

Representation ID: 31597

Received: 12/08/2017

Respondent: Ms Anna Le Gouais

Representation Summary:

Ensure that there are regular benches along the green corridors to enable older people to use them for walking, with opportunities for rest. Benches are really important to enable more people to walk.

Full text:

Ensure that there are regular benches along the green corridors to enable older people to use them for walking, with opportunities for rest. Benches are really important to enable more people to walk.

Support

Land North of Cherry Hinton SPD

Representation ID: 31796

Received: 02/10/2017

Respondent: Natural Cambridgeshire

Representation Summary:

We welcome the inclusion of green infrastructure within the SPD and in particular an uninterrupted linear park (wildlife corridor) that potentially links with wildlife sites to the south of Coldham's Lane with the Greenbelt/Green Corridor to the north.

Full text:

Please see attached letter.

Support

Land North of Cherry Hinton SPD

Representation ID: 31823

Received: 02/10/2017

Respondent: Natural England

Representation Summary:

We support the inclusion of green infrastructure within the SPD, including an uninterrupted linear park that potentially links with wildlife sites in the wider countryside.

Full text:

Thank you for your consultation on the above dated 7 August 2017, which was received by Natural England on 2 August 2017.

Natural England is a non-departmental public body. Our statutory purpose is to ensure that the natural environment is conserved, enhanced, and managed for the benefit of present and future generations, thereby contributing to sustainable development.

Our remit includes protected sites and landscapes, biodiversity, geodiversity, soils, protected species, landscape character, green infrastructure and access to and enjoyment of nature.

Natural England's comments:
This site lies within an area where Natural England believes development should contribute towards delivery of landscape scale biodiversity net gain, in particular enhancement of chalk grassland and woodland and farmland bird habitat. We support the inclusion of green infrastructure within the SPD, including an uninterrupted linear park that potentially links with wildlife sites in the wider countryside. Natural England supports the proposal to preserve the adjacent wildlife sites and on-site habitats and to create additional grassland habitats. Ecological impacts, including on farmland species, should be appropriately mitigated and enhancements incorporated to demonstrate delivery of net biodiversity gain, to meet NPPF requirements and the needs of people and wildlife. The development should provide sufficient informal open space to meet the additional and growing recreational demands of new (and existing) residents and to deliver biodiversity net gain. Natural England advises that additional off-site green infrastructure provision is likely to be required to meet these needs.

Should the plan be amended in a way which significantly affects its impact on the natural environment, then, please consult Natural England again.

Strategic Environmental Assessment/Habitats Regulations Assessment
A SPD requires a Strategic Environmental Assessment only in exceptional circumstances as set out in the Planning Practice Guidance here. While SPDs are unlikely to give rise to likely significant effects on European Sites, they should be considered as a plan under the Habitats Regulations in the same way as any other plan or project. If your SPD requires a Strategic Environmental Assessment or Habitats Regulation Assessment, you are required to consult us at certain stages as set out in the Planning Practice Guidance.


Please send all planning consultations electronically to the consultation hub at consultations@naturalengland.org.uk.

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