Comment
Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Draft Waste Local Plan January 2022
Representation ID: 866
Received: 04/04/2022
Respondent: Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
7.5. Where there are no relevant plan policies, or the policies which are most important for
determining the application are out of date at the time of making the decision, the Council will
grant planning permission unless: a) The application of policies in the NPPF that protect areas or assets of particular importance provides a clear reason for refusing the development
proposed or b) Any adverse impacts of doing so would significantly and demonstrably outweigh
the benefits, when assessed against policies in the NPPF taken as a whole.
NWT has a substantive concerns about 7.5b and how the assessment of “outweigh” would be
made. Also it would be possible to argue that many policies are inherently contradictory in any
plan, so this also invalidate this approach. This needs substantial further explanation of how
this clause would actually operate .
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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