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Derbyniwyd: 05/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

“The Policy will cover … Local Wildlife Sites, including potential, and in certain instances rejected ones.”

The subsequent policies need to maintain a distinction between adopted and rejected sites (depending on the reason for rejection) to ensure a distinction is maintained between the two in the hierarchy. Without this, the importance of adopted sites would be diminished if both allocated and unallocated sites were treated as carrying the same weight.

“… Sites not yet subject to formal designation but known to make a positive contribution to biodiversity and/or geodiversity”

Policy needs to be very clear about what making a contribution would look like in the absence of a formal allocation – lack of definition could make it difficult to establish what weight to give this aspect when decisions are made at application stage.