Policy information sourced from Redington Neighbourhood Plan

BGI 1 Gardens and Ecology

Open/unbuilt areas within development sites should be designed to enhance their ecological, wildlife and residential amenity values. This includes consideration of all of the following, as appropraite:

  1. Retaining, providing and reinstateing trees, hedgerows and other planting using species, especially those of high value to biodiversity, as set out in the 6.2 Planting Guidence to Enhance Biodiversity and Conservation Area Character.
  2. Achieving an urban greening score in excess of the London Plan target.
  3. Maximising the area of soft landscaping and using planting with high value to pollinators and insects, as set out in the 6.2 Planting Guidence to Enhance Biodiversity and Conservation Area Charachter.
  4. Minimising hard surface areas to those necessary for the functioning of the site, such as footpaths to doors, and ensuring they are permeable to allow drainage of surface water.
  5. Retaining hedges and walls and taking opportunities to use hedges as boundary treatments, instead of or in addition to walls and fences.
  6. Where tree removal is unavoidable, such as removal of dead, dying, unsafe trees of invasive species, they should be replaced within the site by a similar or other native species, unless it can be demonstrated to the Council’s satisfaction that this is not possible.
  7. The inclusion of new water features, such as natural wildlife ponds.

For more information please see the Neighbourhood Plan