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15. NATURE CONSERVATION |
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Safeguarding Of Nature
Conservation Interests Throughout The District |
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POLICY NC1 |
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Planning permission for
development will be refused where it w ill significantly harm an acknowledged
nature conservation interest of established importance. These interests
are:- |
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Statutorily protected sites
which are of international or national importance. These include Ramsar
Sites, designated or proposed Special Protection Areas, Special Areas
of Conservation, National Nature Reserves and Sites of Special Scientific
Interest. These will be subject to special scrutiny. |
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Sites which are of local
or regional importance, including, |
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designated or proposed statutory Local
Nature Reserves |
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non-statutory sites identified by the
Environmental Records Centre as Biological and Geological Notification
Sites (Alert Sites) and Regionally Important Geological and Geomorphological
Sites |
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land subject to management agreements
under Section 39 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. |
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Where development proposals
are acceptable in accordance with this Policy, the proposals should
also comply with other Policies in this Local Plan. |
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This Policy applies throughout
the District and will also apply to any further sites of acknowledged
nature conservation interest of established importance which may be
identified. |
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Conditions To Safeguard
Nature Conservation Interests Throughout The District |
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POLICY NC2 |
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In appropriate cases, conditions
will be imposed in order to control potential damage to an acknowledged
nature conservation interest of established importance, referred to
in Policy NC1. |
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This Policy applies throughout
the District. |
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Where development proposals
are acceptable in accordance with this Policy, the proposals should
also comply with other Policies in this Local Plan. |
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Local Nature Reserve;
Weirhouse Mill, Chesham |
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POLICY NC3 |
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Development proposals relating
to the land at Weirhouse Mill will not be permitted if they would
prejudice the reservation of the land identified on the Proposals
Map for a Local Nature Reserve. |
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Where development proposals
are acceptable in accordance with this Policy, the proposals should
also comply with other Policies in this Local Plan. |
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