SIR: I noted with interest the letters from Brian Adey in your papers from July 2 and July 16 around the scheme that TVBC has devised alongside Roke Manor Ltd to ensure nitrate neutrality for future building developments. I realise that even the above sentence is a bit wordy, and though we’ve tried our best to explain the scheme in as simple a way as possible, I thought I’d respond to some of your questions, Brian, and try to clear things up! The background, of course, is that now, new planning applicants for homes have to achieve nutrient neutrality, so not to cause additional impact on habitats in the Solent, which is where wastewater flows from Test Valley, as well as other areas in Hampshire. If an application cannot show itself to be ‘nitrate neutral’, then the increase in this nitrates need to be balanced out by reducing nitrates elsewhere, within the same river catchment area. (This isn’t something dictated by the council, it’s been brought about by a court
SIR: I read your article on our Councils new initiative at being ECO friendly. In fact I read it several times at the conclusion of which I thought I needed to go and lie down on a darkened room, or refer it all to our church ECO expert, John, for an explanation. In the end I decided to break the habit of a lifetime and write a letter. As I understand it TVBC is spending some our taxes, to buy credits from Roke Manor Ltd. They are available because Roke has stopped farming some land. Does R M Ltd need our money to persuade them to do that and cut down on the nitrates used? Are they that much in financial need and what was the outlay anyway?
New Development Pictures - The Augusta Park Development in Andover. 23rd August, 2018 A DEAL has been agreed to protect habitats in the Solent from nitrates. Test Valley Borough Council (TVBC) is moving forward with new policy which is aimed at helping to protect internationally designated habitats in the Solent. Credits have been purchased by the council from countryside land in the South of the borough to help mitigate increases in nitrates from new developments. This comes as excessive nitrates in the water are said to be having an adverse impact on habitats and species. Over the past two years, following Natural England advice, planning applications for residential development and overnight accommodation submitted to the council have required mitigation for any potential impact from the additional levels of nitrates they would generate from wastewater and land use change.
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