Comment

Representation ID: 3798

Received: 08/09/2024

Respondent: Mrs Alison Gray

BNG needs to be genuine and lasting, not a tick-box requirement - a genuine desire by the developer to improve our existence.
In a planning application which used kilometres of new hedgerow as part of the mitigation, the majority of the whips died within a year and have not been replaced. What teeth does the Council have should such mitigations be a temporary show?
We all need to be genuinely working towards replacing the biodiversity which has been lost. I would like to see KCC's Viability Study recommendations to implement 20% BNG put in place.