Policy information sourced from Spelthorne Core Strategy and Policies Development Plan Document
EN8: Protecting and Improving the Landscape and Biodiversity
The Council will seek to protect and improve the landscape and biodiversity of the Borough by:
- safeguarding sites of international and national importance,
- working with partners in the public, private and voluntary sectors to develop and secure the implementation of projects to enhance the landscape and create or improve habitats of nature conservation value, and to secure the more effective management of land in the Borough,
- ensuring that new development, wherever possible, contributes to an improvement in the landscape and biodiversity and also avoids harm to features of significance in the landscape or of nature conservation interest,
- refusing permission where development would have a significant harmful impact on the landscape or features of nature conservation value,
- safeguarding the Borough’s Common Land and working with other interested parties to protect and where appropriate enhance its nature conservation and recreational value.
For more information please see the Core Strategy and Policies Development Plan Document