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Representation ID: 4579

Received: 07/08/2025

Respondent: RSPB England

The RSPB considers that Bird Wise SAMMS reflects the current best available evidence on how to address in combination impacts from recreational disturbance from increased residential development close to coastal SPA/Ramsar/SSSI. For sites that may have an impact on these sites on their own due to proximity or size it is important that they may need to deliver additional bespoke mitigation plus the SAMMS contribution. There is a need to better understand functionally linked land and how this network of sites support the SPA. The findings of the SPA Review should be referenced in policy. Site SR51 is of concern.