Support

Representation ID: 12046

Received: 10/10/2021

Respondent: Miss Emma Thompson

Developments should, where possible, naturalise urban watercourses and open up underground culverts, to provide biodiversity net gain as well as amenity improvement. I support that there should be no built development within five metres of an ordinary watercourse and ten metres of the top of the bank of a main river, these buffers should be given as minimums allowed only in exceptional circumstances. Developers should be expected to provide buffers
which protect and, where relevant, increase the extent of the natural environment adjoining the
watercourse.