Policy information sourced from Enfield Core Strategy 2010-2025
36 BIODIVERSITY
The Council will seek to protect, enhance, restore or add to biodiversity interests within the Borough, including parks, playing fields and other sports spaces, green corridors, waterways, sites, habitats and species identified at a european, national, London or local level as being of importance for nature conservation by:
- Continuing to protect, restore, and enhance sites, habitats and species identified for their biodiversity importance at the national, London, or borough level. The Development Management Document will set out criteria to assess development proposals that are likely to have an adverse ecological impact;
- Requiring improvements to biodiversity provision, with priority given to areas of deficiency identified in the Enfield Open Space Study and proposals which assist in achieving Biodiversity Action Plan objectives;
- Reviewing the schedule of Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation in light of the findings of GLA survey of the Borough and other appropriate evidence, in order to set out a hierarchy of locally important sites in the Development Management Document; and
- Preparing a Local Biodiversity Action Plan to set out the Borough’s actions and objectives with regard to biodiversity, and to contribute towards the UK and London Biodiversity Action Plan targets and objectives.
For more information please see the Core Strategy 2010-2025