Rother LPA BNG

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Biodiversity Net Gain in Rother Local Planning Authority

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Rother runs from the sandstone ridges of the High Weald down to the shingle and marshland of Rye Bay. The High Weald National Landscape covers 83% of the district, and the council counts the Rye Harbour Nature Reserve Site of Special Scientific Interest, Combe Valley Countryside Park and the vegetated shingle at Norman’s Bay among its main wildlife sites. The Rother, Brede, Tillingham and Dudwell rivers drain the district, and the wildflower meadows of Bexhill Down and Galley Hill lie at Bexhill.

Biodiversity Net Gain became a legal requirement for major developments in England on 12 February 2024, and for small sites on 2 April 2024. Rother’s adopted plan is the Core Strategy, adopted on 29 September 2014, with the Development and Site Allocations Local Plan, adopted on 16 December 2019. A new Local Plan 2025 to 2042 is being prepared. Until a plan is adopted, the national 10% applies.

Watercourses from west Bexhill and neighbouring parishes drain towards the Pevensey Levels, a Special Area of Conservation, Ramsar site and National Nature Reserve. Natural England has asked for at least two stages of sustainable drainage treatment on the west Bexhill allocations to protect the Levels’ water quality and quantity. The council has also invited landowners to put forward land for habitat banks, and any bank in or near the High Weald is read against the High Weald National Landscape position statement.

Habitats in Rother Local Planning Authority

Red campion, a wildflower of hedgerows and woodland edges

Rother’s habitats range from High Weald woodland and meadow to the coastal shingle, dunes and grazing marsh around Rye Bay.

Coastal and Floodplain Grazing Marsh: watercourses from west Bexhill drain into the Pevensey Levels, and the East Guldeford and Pett levels form part of the Romney Marshes landscape near Rye.
Coastal Sand Dunes: Camber Sands holds the dune system on Rye Bay.
Coastal Vegetated Shingle: Norman’s Bay and Rye Harbour Nature Reserve hold shingle habitat, with Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay notified as a wider Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Lowland Meadows: Bexhill Down and Galley Hill have wildflower meadows.
Lowland Mixed Deciduous Woodland: Combe Haven includes ancient woodland, and Leasam Heronry Wood holds a nationally important heronry.
Reedbeds: Combe Haven Site of Special Scientific Interest at Bexhill includes reed beds beside its alluvial meadows.
Rivers and Streams: the Rother, Brede, Tillingham and Dudwell rivers cross the district.

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