Resources, key documents and contacts
Key documents
- Badgers Guidelines for Developers
- Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC) Review Citations
- Biodiversity and Development, a GI Approach
- Householder Development SPG
- Farm Building Conversions
- Residential Development
Under the Town and Country Planning System, planning decisions have to consider SINC sites.
Resources
- Biodiversity Planning Toolkit (Association of Local Government Ecologists)
- Bridgend Local Development Plan 2006 to 2021 (Bridgend County Borough Council, 2013)
Bridgend LDP Policies relating to GI
These are all found in the ‘Written Statement’ pdf on the ‘Bridgend Local Development Plan adoption documents’ page.
- Strategic Policy SP2 Design and Sustainable Place Making
- Strategic Policy SP4 Conservation and Enhancement of the Natural Environment
- Strategic Policy SP5 Conservation of the Built and Historic Environment
- Strategic Policy SP14 Infrastructure
- Policy PLA4 Climate Change and Peak Oil
- Policy PLA7 Transportation Proposals 6
- Policy ENV3 Special Landscape Areas
- Policy ENV4 Local/Regional Nature Conservation Sites
- Policy ENV5 Green Infrastructure
- Policy ENV6 Nature Conservation
- Policy ENV7 Natural Resource Protection and Public Health
- COM11 to COM13 Recreation Policies
- COM14 Provision of Allotments and Community Food Networks
Welsh Government Technical Advice Notes (TANs) relating to GI
- TAN 5 Nature Conservation and Planning (2009)
- TAN 15 Development and Flood Risk (2004)
- TAN 16 Sport, Recreation and Open Space (2009)
- TAN 22 Sustainable Buildings (2010)
National policies relating to GI
- Planning Policy Wales, Edition 10, (2018)
- Natural Environment Framework, ‘A Living Wales’ (2010)
- UK Climate Change Act
Useful contacts
Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
Telephone:
01202 391319
Association of Local Government Ecologists
Barn Owl Trust
Website:
The Barn Owl Trust's website
Bridgend Countryside Team
Bridgend County Borough Council
Email:
biodiversity@bridgend.gov.uk
Telephone:
01656 643 643
Bridgend Planning Department
Bridgend County Borough Council
Email:
planning@bridgend.co.uk
Telephone:
01656 643 643
Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM)
Telephone:
01962 868626
Natural Resources Wales (Species Protection Section)
Telephone:
0845 1306229
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
Telephone:
01767 680551
Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)
Telephone:
020 7929 9494
South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre (SEWBReC)
Telephone:
029 2064 1110
The Countryside Team
Bridgend County Borough Council
Email:
biodiversity@bridgend.gov.uk
Telephone:
01656 643643
The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales
Telephone:
01656 724100