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ID sylw: 107761

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Bellway Strategic Land

Asiant : Savills

The policy seeks to protect trees of ‘value’. It is unclear what the LPA consider is a tree of ‘value’. National policy only seeks to protect irreplaceable habitats which include veteran trees and ancient woodland (NPPF paragraph 193). The SWLP should not seek to protect every tree which is not ‘dead’ or ‘dangerous’. The policy should seek for trees to be protected ‘where possible’.
The policy also states that development will be expected to increase tree canopy cover. We object to this requirement. The feasibility of this requirement as well as its impact on the viability and a site’s ability to be delivered efficiently has not been evidenced and justified. Trees with a large canopy cover need to be properly located on development sites away from proposed built development (e.g. to avoid shading / shadowing and root damage to hard standing). Therefore, the more trees proposed, the greater the likelihood that the developable areas of a development site will be impacted.