Amend S04 as follows:

SO4: Deliver Beautiful, Biodiverse, Clean and a Functional Natural Environment,
Where resources are carefully managed to avoid adverse impact and provide net gains for biodiversity; and where our natural heritage is protected, and ecosystem services are restored, enhanced and integrated back into the built environment through multi-functional green and blue infrastructure and opportunities are pursued for securing measurable net gains for biodiversity.

4. Consistent with National Policy

To ensure that the Objective is in line with Paragraph 174 b) of the NPPF.

We welcome the aspirations of this strategic objective with the caveat that the wording should be amended to include mention of biodiversity, as follows:

"...where our natural heritage and biodiversity are protected and enhanced..."

To make this Plan sound, we suggest that this objective is reworded thus: '...enhanced and integrated back into the built environment through accessible multi-functional green and blue infrastructure'.

SO4: the aspiration for green infrastructure is welcome, but we feel that the principle of access for all within any such green spaces should be embedded within this Plan from the top down; therefore, the Strategic Objectives of the Plan should contain this principle.