Decision details
Phosphate Mitigation Strategy
Decision Maker: Service Director – Environment , Highways, & Waste
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
As set out in the cabinet member decision, the
creation of a Phosphate Mitigation Scheme, in addition to improving
the water quality of the River Lugg, positively contribute toward
the delivery of the environmental and economic priorities within
the County Plan 2020-2024; enhancing local biodiversity, enabling
sustainable housing growth in the north of the county and reducing
carbon emissions through carbon sequestration.
At present, the Local Plan identifies a housing need of circa 4,000
new homes in the Lugg sub-catchment and now proposes a three Phase
Nutrient
Mitigation Scheme to deliver nearly all of that need. Phasing of
the scheme will ensure supply is released to match demand and the
council’s capacity to bring the new assets on stream is
focused and not over stretched.
A Financial Model has been developed which sets out the funding and
expenditure flow through the Council’s Nutrient Trading
Phosphate Mitigation Scheme. The Council is unwilling and unable to
make a profit or loss on the cost of phosphate mitigation credits,
and the cost will be assessed periodically. The Council’s
Nutrient Trading Phosphate Mitigation Scheme will deliver a minimum
of 3,471 homes.
Contact: Mark Averill, Service Director Environment and Highways Email: mark.averill@herefordshire.gov.uk Tel: 01432 260944.
Publication date: 28/03/2024
Date of decision: 29/02/2024
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