Comment

Representation ID: 18516

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country

1e
Comment: WTBBC support the aim of delivering an integrated and continuous (where possible) network of green infrastructure, walking and cycling routes. The importance of this should be emphasised through it being in a separate point to a network of centres, health, leisure and community facilities.
1g
Comment: WTBBC support a defensible green belt to help promote urban renaissance within the urban area and that provides easy access to the countryside for local residents. WTBBC do not support the use of ‘where possible’ in reference to the landscape being safeguarded and enhanced for its heritage, recreation, agricultural and nature conservation value. This caveat allows for the redrawing of green belt boundaries as proposed elsewhere in the plan, but its use here weakens the BCA’s assertion that the green belt is valued for the benefits it provides the Black Country.