Support
Black Country Core Strategy Issue and Option Report
Representation ID: 536
Received: 08/09/2017
Respondent: The Woodland Trust
We strongly support the proposal to include ancient woodland in the list of nationally designated sites, as this will strengthen protection of this irreplaceable habitat in line with Government policy and in particular Section 118 of the NPPF.
Ideally we would like to see your strategy state that ancient woodland should only be subject to loss or damage in the most wholly exceptional circumstances. We would like to see similar protection applied to ancient and veteran trees.
We strongly support the proposal to include ancient woodland in the list of nationally designated sites, as this will strengthen protection of this irreplaceable habitat in line with Government policy and in particular Section 118 of the NPPF.
Ideally we would like to see your strategy state that ancient woodland should only be subject to loss or damage in the most wholly exceptional circumstances. We would like to see similar protection applied to ancient and veteran trees.