Support

Representation ID: 4574

Received: 07/08/2025

Respondent: RSPB England

The RSPB supports Medway’s efforts to connect ecologically important sites, reflecting the ‘bigger, better and more joined-up’ Lawton Principles. These corridors should be given a status to support appropriately creating, restoring and maintaining them. This framework should look strategically to factor in potential disturbance impacts and include functionally linked land, and to help protect and enhance sites such as Chattenden Woods and Lodge Hill SSSI. The RSPB welcomes that the framework will be further fine-tuned in accordance with the Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Proposed ecological corridors and priority habitat enhancement must tally with key areas identified within the LNRS.