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Derbyniwyd: 07/03/2025

Ymatebydd: Mackenzie Miller Homes

Asiant : Lichfields (Birmingham)

16.1 Mackenzie Miller Homes recognises the economic and environmental advantages of best
and most versatile [BMV] agricultural land but considers the SWCs' approach to be
unnecessary.
16.2 The NPPF is clear that planning policies and decisions should contribute to and enhance
the natural and local environment by “recognising the intrinsic character and beauty of the
countryside, and the wider benefits from natural capital and ecosystem services –
including the economic and other benefits of the best and most versatile agricultural
land…” (Para 187b). Nevertheless, the SWCs should have regard to Paragraph 16(f) of the
NPPF which states that plans should “serve a clear purpose, avoiding unnecessary
duplication of policies that apply to a particular area (including policies in this
Framework, where relevant).”
16.3 It is therefore, Mackenzie Miller Homes’ view that that a policy that largely duplicates the
protections for BMV land already provided in the NPPF would neither ‘serve a clear
purpose’ nor would it avoid ‘unnecessary duplication’, since decision-taker must consider
the NPPF requirements regardless.