Comment

Representation ID: 3855

Received: 08/09/2024

Respondent: Mrs Alison Gray

I am fully supportive of this policy, its protection for national ecological and landscape designations, and its benefits for everyone. Its importance is even greater with urban expansion pressures and Maidstone's Lidsing Development removing a strategic gap.
I'm please to see that retrofitting ecological networks to existing urban areas is suggested, but am aware that, in the past, trees were removed from urban streets to save on maintenance costs.