Object

Representation ID: 18509

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

Justification
Object: No reference is made in this section to evidence commissioned by and provided to the BCA in their preparation of the BCP by WTBBC.
In October 2019 WTBBC and EcoRecord (the Local Environmental Records Centre) submitted An Ecological Evaluation of the Black Country Green Belt. This comprehensive study analysed a wide range of datasets and assigned a relative ecological value to individual landscape units.
This report was subsequently published on the Black Country Plan website as part of the Evidence Base, however, no reference is made to its findings being used in the Development Strategy or Site Assessment process.
Object: No reference is made in this section to evidence commissioned by and provided to the BCA in their preparation of the BCP by WTBBC.
In April 2021 WTBBC and EcoRecord (the Local Environmental Records Centre) submitted a Draft Local Nature Recovery Opportunity Map (and a description of the components of this) which has been published as Appendix 18 in the BCP.
No reference is made to its findings being used in the Development Strategy or Site Assessment process.