Object
Black Country Core Strategy Issue and Option Report
Representation ID: 446
Received: 07/09/2017
Respondent: Local Nature Partnership
As one of the three stated purposes of the strategy is to direct environmental activity, the LNP would expect to see a spatial objective for green infrastructure and a greater recognition of Natural Capital and the benefits integrating environmental infrastructure for other priorities including health and wellbeing and more desirable developments.
Environmental Infrastructure is one of the five strategic policies subsequently set out, but this would be greatly strengthened if it were supported by an explicit spatial objective such as "safeguard existing environmental assets and take opportunities to improve environmental infrastructure to support wildlife populations and provide other ecosystem services".
As one of the three stated purposes of the strategy is to direct environmental activity, the LNP would expect to see a spatial objective for green infrastructure and a greater recognition of Natural Capital and the benefits integrating environmental infrastructure for other priorities including health and wellbeing and more desirable developments.
Environmental Infrastructure is one of the five strategic policies subsequently set out, but this would be greatly strengthened if it were supported by an explicit spatial objective such as "safeguard existing environmental assets and take opportunities to improve environmental infrastructure to support wildlife populations and provide other ecosystem services".