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I have been reading through the draft and it's all very good to see. a couple of my top priorities is changes in council owned land management and enforcing mandatory biodiversity net gain. so far to this date this has never been done and it has been devastating. bad management in our green Spaces and developers getting away with some awful stuff despite me reporting it. For example at chalk hill Cliffsend, the land owner was supposed to plant a native hedgerow (500m long) but instead planted 135 Trees, which are now all dead.

I've reported this many times & I never had any replies.

I really like the ideas of establishing independent habitat banks, mapping and enhancing habitat connectivity and especially the community engagement.

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Thanet is desperately poor for tree cover, as Nik says developers need to meet their responsibilities and planned connected habitat both hedgerow and copse needs to be urgently introduced. Consider the high level of mental ill health in Thanet and then consider the proven healing effect of access to such green areas. Canterbury Council has pledged to plant 50,000 trees in the next 10 years,it doesn't have to be just trees of course but are we going to match that level of ambition?

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