Comment

Representation ID: 167522

Received: 26/10/2018

Respondent: Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire & Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust

5.8 Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change
First bullet point under 29 - remove the wording "where possible" and read "Avoiding adverse impacts on biodiversity and the natural environment, promoting and enhancing them..."

We support point 34 (Integrate and Enhance Biodiversity), and are pleased with the approach which bases decisions on a full programme of surveys and monitoring, and considers existing and created habitats as part of a wider ecological network.

We support the proposed production of a Biodiversity Management Plan, although for consistency with the rest of the document, suggest that this should be referred to as a Landscape and Ecological Management Plan (LEMP),

We are pleased to see that in table 15, the LEMP is included in the list of documents/plans for point 34 and that there is a reference in the Mechanism(s) section to management and to applicants being expected to demonstrate that their proposals are capable of delivery. However, for clarity we suggest the following changes to the table.