Comment

Representation ID: 16323

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Natural England

Strategic Allocation Policy WSA.4. -WAH232 (GB1) Yieldsfield Farm (sometimes recorded as
Yieldfields farm), Stafford Road, Bloxwich.

This large allocation of 600 houses is likely to impact upon a known identified core habitat zone (Local Nature Recovery Mapping and Natural Capital Maps 2021). This represents potentially significant impacts on key local biodiversity rich sites such as Pelsall Common through likely increased recreational impacts. Natural England would be keen to explore mitigation measures here such as creating new biodiversity rich green open spaces such as a country park with heathland recreation therein to also be interlinked by biodiversity rich multiuser green infrastructure corridors.