Comment
Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Draft Waste Local Plan January 2022
Representation ID: 645
Received: 04/04/2022
Respondent: Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
Monitoring DM5 – Protecting and Enhancing Biodiversity
Key outcomes/Strategic Objectives
To protect biodiversity from adverse impacts from waste proposals and enhance biodiversity to
achieve net gain (SO3 – The environment, SO4 – Community, Health and Wellbeing
2167m,
Significant adverse change in biodiversity assets in the County Number of planning applications
granted contrary to Natural England advice
NE do not comment on all applications, so the accuracy or the ability to measure this is
in question, and should be checked with NE.
Area of habitat loss, gain and net-gain/loss (including Habitats of Principal Importance, LBAP
habitats and designated sites)
Monitoring Method Natural England, Local Biodiversity Action Plans
Neither NE or the LBAP can monitor the figures described above. This has to be recorded
for each application in a robust way through the EcIA process and the Defra Metric.
Planning permissions decision notices and delegated or committee reports Constraints/Risks
Difficult to measure and monitor environmental quality and lack of available data
Target No planning permissions result in adverse impact on biodiversity
All planning permissions secure maximum BNG .
Trigger Point Significant number of applications approved contrary to advice from Natural
England (more than 10%)
NE do not respond to all applications, so this is not a relevant measure.
On the basis of the above, NWT require all the areas identified as of concern to be addressed,
in order to be able to support this Plan. Please do not hesitate to contact me to discuss these
matters further.
Thank you for consulting the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust (NWT) on the above. I apologise
for using this format of response, but the OPUS format is not straightforward to use for
responses to multiple sections and the insertion or highlighting of text. I have used bold italics
to suggest insertions of text and italics for your original text.
Overall NWT supports the principles of the Plan and we welcome the clear reiteration of the
need to move waste management urgently up the waste hierarchy. We would hope, however,
to see a stronger aim for further waste reduction and the obligation for each Local
Authority to secure ambitious waste reductions across all their work and areas of
influence.
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