Policy information sourced from the Sutton Neighbourhood Plan
RC1: Landscape and Natural Environment
(a) Development must preserve and, where feasible, enhance the natural environment; it should have no significant adverse impact on designated and non-designated environmental assets.
(b) Development must have no adverse impact on the landscape setting of Sutton village.
(c) Development must retain and, where feasible, take opportunities to enhance the area’s landscape heritage, including field patterns, estate parkland, ponds, woodlands and watercourses.
(d) Where development causes adverse impacts on Sutton’s natural environment and landscape setting, they must be offset through environmental gains in the design, layout and landscaping of the scheme.
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