Policy information sourced from the Highgate Neighbourhood Plan

OS4: Biodiversity and Highgate’s Green Grid

Development should support the ability of ‘Highgate’s Green Grid’ (detailed in Appendix 3) to act as an element in the local ecological network. The impact of a proposal on the Green Grid will be assessed against its wider benefits to the local area.

While the composition of garden planting cannot be controlled through policy, any new development or public realm planting project will be encouraged to plant tree species indigenous to the area and, when possible, of genetically local stock, and to undertake, wherever appropriate, the planting of areas conducive to the promotion of the local ecology.

For more information please see the Highgate Neighbourhood Plan