South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 18 Draft)
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South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Allocations Plan (Reg. 18 Draft)
QUESTION 1: Do you agree
Representation ID: 2160
Received: 14/07/2021
Respondent: Norfolk County Council - Natural Environment Team
Sites likely to have significant impact on Landscape would benefit by being accompanied by a LVIA, or LVA suitably proportional to scale of development. An element of this should take into consideration any potential impacts on views from PRoW, Norfolk Trails or publicly accessible County Wildlife Sites where primary purpose is for recreational leisure use, and views across landscape form part of enjoyment of using these routes and/or areas. Any soft/hard landscape plans should also take into account wider landscape, creating bigger, better and more joined up habitats, and look to create screening where deemed necessary or to reflect and integrate with surroundings by carefully chosen design and species. Species should be native or of known value to pollinators.
Norfolk County Council are part of County Wildlife Site partnership. Where sites are within vicinity of County Wildlife Sites (CWS) and increased recreational pressure may be seen, Norfolk County Council may look to seek Planning Obligations and/or use of CIL funds in order to mitigate against these pressures, including any soft landscaping design/species selection to reflect composition of the CWS. Where adjacent to a CWS, a suitable buffer should be incorporated within design. There may also be other pressures which will be assessed at time of application which may lead to GI requests through Planning Obligations.
NCC jointly manages, with Norfolk Wildlife Trust, a growing network of Roadside Nature Reserves (RNRs). Where proposals abut an RNR careful consideration would need to be given to location of site access points and the application must demonstrate that RNRs will not be adversely impacted by the proposal. If the site is adjacent to existing or candidate RNR opportunities to enhance RNR should be incorporated into scheme design or contributions discussed by means of Planning Obligations/CIL.
