Chapter 5
Climate and Environment
Issues / Recommendations / Observations
Sub. No.
Chief Executive’s Response & Recommendation
This submission raises a number of issues:
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The Draft Plan is focussed on the delivery on compact growth and CMATS which includes modal shift actions and targets to deliver increased sustainable travel modes across the City over the Plan period. Chapter 9 sets out the approach to flood risk and SuDS across the City. Objective 9.8 addresses the need to “protect, enhance and manage the City’s floodplains, wetlands and coastal habitat areas that are subject to flooding as vital ‘green infrastructure’ which provides space for storage and conveyance of floodwater, enabling flood risk to be more effectively managed and reduce the need to provide flood defence infrastructures”. Climate action is a cross cutting theme within the Draft Plan, as illustrated in Table 5.1. The Draft Plan is focused on the delivery of compact and sustainable growth and climate mitigation and adaptation. The Plan has a strong focus on public realm, provision of community infrastructure and environmental health factors. Recommendation: No change. The submission raises concerns between a permitted solar farm and grid connection with other objectives to preserve the Landscape and ecology. Chapter 6 sets out policies in relation to landscape protection of the most sensitive landscape assets in the City. The Draft Plan also supports a transition to renewable energy sources. Each individual application will be assessed on its merits against the objectives of the Development Plan. Recommendation: No change.
• It needs to be easier for people to get out of their cars and to enable a cultural shift. This will go a long way towards much needed climate action and making our roads safer and air cleaner.
• Emphasis on natural flood protection methods.
• Integrate climate justice into the Development Plan.
• Move away from unsustainable growth. A number of other matters that are not relevant to a Development Plan are also raised.
The Metropolitan Green Belt should have no industrial development 44
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