Support
Black Country Core Strategy Issue and Option Report
Representation ID: 181
Received: 07/09/2017
Respondent: Birmingham and the Black Country Wildlife Trust
We welcome an evidence based review of greenbelt function but urge you to extend this across all of the Black Country, not just greenbelt. There is a growing body of evidence that urban greenspace and brownfield sites can be of equal or greater importance for wildlife, geodiversity and people as some greenbelt sites. We would like to refer you to the Wildlife and Countryside Link guidance on Permission in Principal and Brownfield Registers of land for further information on this.
The Wildlife Trust can provide advice on conducting such a study.
We welcome an evidence based review of greenbelt function but urge you to extend this across all of the Black Country, not just greenbelt. There is a growing body of evidence that urban greenspace and brownfield sites can be of equal or greater importance for wildlife, geodiversity and people as some greenbelt sites. We would like to refer you to the Wildlife and Countryside Link guidance on Permission in Principal and Brownfield Registers of land for further information on this.
The Wildlife Trust can provide advice on conducting such a study.