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Yes

ID sylw: 107889

Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Taylor Wimpey Strategic Land

Asiant : Turley

We broadly agree that consideration should be given to the carbon sequestration potential of land. This is often a requirement set by Natural England in response to EIA Scoping for large scale development. Certain land types such as peatland can have a significant carbon sequestration and storage benefit and avoiding development on this type of land or ensuring adequate mitigation is important.
It is noted that further work is required to determine the threshold for protecting and enhancing carbon sinks. We would recommend this is considered carefully as this will have impacts on the land available for development and viability of development. It is possible there may be unintended consequences from setting the threshold too high, effectively sterilising areas of land from development, despite these potentially being more sustainable locations for development than others.