Object
Black Country Core Strategy Issue and Option Report
Representation ID: 475
Received: 07/09/2017
Respondent: Local Nature Partnership
We feel that there could be a greater recognition that nature and natural features are an important constituent of place making and local distinctiveness and often have a strong relationship with historic character. This is a fundamental tenet of geodiversity conservation where the shape of the landscape (e.g. hills and valleys) are determined by geology. The use of local stone for buildings, walls and kerbstones is significant for determining historic character e.g. limestone in Dudley and Walsall, dolerite in Rowley, red sandstone in Stourbridge and Wolverhampton, Gornal Grit and Bilston Stone - yellow sandstones in central Black Country.
We feel that there could be a greater recognition that nature and natural features are an important constituent of place making and local distinctiveness and often have a strong relationship with historic character. This is a fundamental tenet of geodiversity conservation where the shape of the landscape (e.g. hills and valleys) are determined by geology. The use of local stone for buildings, walls and kerbstones is significant for determining historic character e.g. limestone in Dudley and Walsall, dolerite in Rowley, red sandstone in Stourbridge and Wolverhampton, Gornal Grit and Bilston Stone - yellow sandstones in central Black Country.