Strategic Objective 3: Protecting our environment
Comment
Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Draft Waste Local Plan January 2022
Representation ID: 638
Received: 04/04/2022
Respondent: Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust
SO3
Protecting our environment – to ensure any new waste facilities protect the countryside, wildlife
and valuable habitats, and maximise the delivery of BNG over and above the
Nottinghamshire minimum target of 20%*. We will also protect and improve water, soil and
air quality across the plan area and to care for the built, historic and natural environment of the
area.
*The Draft BNG Framework for the County, recognises that for built development the minimum
target set for BNG in the Environment Act 2021 of 10% should be met, but that in
Nottinghamshire we have a shared aim to meet 20% where viable. For minerals and waste
planning, much higher levels of new habitats and BNG have always been possible, and have
been achieved, and thus the aim should remain to maximise BNG,
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.
Detailed comments in representations
Comment
Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Draft Waste Local Plan January 2022
Representation ID: 721
Received: 04/04/2022
Respondent: Historic England (Midlands)
Strategic Objective 3
We support the inclusion of heritage within this objective; however, we consider that there needs to be a separate objective for
the different areas of the environment that could be affected. In our experience, there can be a positive for the natural
environment and a negative for the historic environment or vice versa, from the same action and this makes it a challenge when
preparing the monitoring reports, sustainability appraisal reports etc. We would welcome a separate objective for the historic
environment that seeks to protect and enhance the significance of the historic environment, heritage assets and their setting.
Many thanks for consulting Historic England on the above consultation.
Please find our comments attached in Table 1; we look forward to working with the Council’s as they progress their Waste Local Plan.
We commented on this document at an earlier stage in the process, 6 May 2020, and raised several general points and signposted a range of Historic England advice on our website. Please utilise this earlier response alongside our additional comments made within this response, to allow you to have a range of advice.
We are available to offer further advice on Development Management Policy 6: Historic Environment, if you would like to take us up on this offer please contact me using the above details.
Comment
Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Draft Waste Local Plan January 2022
Representation ID: 810
Received: 12/04/2022
Respondent: Shlomo Dowen
The following wording from the existing Waste Core Strategy (Part 1) SO3 wording should be retained, i.e. be incorporated into the replacement WLP
Strategic Objective 4: “Make sure that local people have the chance to be involved in decisions about new waste management facilities by providing more information, encouraging wider involvement and targeting key groups or individuals where appropriate.”
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