Object
Proposed Main Modifications
Representation ID: 7252
Received: 02/04/2019
Respondent: The Chilterns Conservation Board
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Yes
The order of "other valued landscapes and the Chilterns AONB" should be reversed to give great weight to the AONB
In bullet point 3 of the new paragraph summarising the North Herts District Green Infrastructure Plan, the order of "other valued landscapes and the Chilterns AONB" should be reversed to:
"The Chilterns AONB and other valued landscapes"
or alternatively separated into two separate bullets:
"- the Chilterns AONB
- other valued landscapes"
This is because:
1. the current order does not give the "great weight" to the AONB that NPPF para 172 instructs should be given.
2. it does not follow the instruction about hierarchy in the NPPF para 170 that: "Plans should: distinguish between the hierarchy of international, national and
locally designated sites; allocate land with the least environmental or amenity
value, where consistent with other policies in this Framework; take a strategic
approach to maintaining and enhancing networks of habitats and green
infrastructure; and plan for the enhancement of natural capital at a catchment or
landscape scale across local authority boundaries."
3. it does not make sense grammatically, it starts with "other valued landscapes" without explaining what they are 'other' to. The preceding bullets are about habitats.