Feb
14
2018
By BDeed
Once a record is 'in' we will use it in a variety of different ways. Broadly speaking we will make your records available to advise and information decision taking and conservation. As a LERC our highest impact is with local decision taking, forward planning and strategy. However, either directly or via other routes we will ensure that your record will have a far greater reach than us and the Liverpool City Region. General uses can be grouped loosely based on the general end user;
- Planning - Generally speaking by the local planning authorities and their advisors. The data we hold forms the biodiversity evidence base for decision taking in the 4 districts
- Highlighting Local Priority Species
- Local Authority Local Plan/Land Allocations
- Development Control/Planning Application
- Forward Planning
- Strategic Development/Review
- Local Wildlife Sites Designation/Review
- Ecological Network
- Green Infrastructure Planning
- Commercial use - Typically developers/ecological consultancies when designing new developments or infrastructure and want to 'build in' biodiversity or want to know what constraints might exist around a proposal
- House improvement
- Housing estate construction
- Industrial site
- Rail works
- Utilities
- Highways
- Other re-development
- Research - Such as at the request of universities, university students or other research bodies
- Conservation - Such as at the request of conservation organisations (charities/NGO's)
- Nature Reserve Management/Monitoring
- Landscape Scale Conservation ('Bee Lines')
- Public - Information is available at public requests (interest/transparency)
- Individual public information requests about a site or species
- Local naturalist requests wanting to target their recording effort or know what has been found (what hasn't been reported!)
- Community groups concerned about the impact of development.
- Statuatory Agencies
- Environment Agency permitting functions and waterways work
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee species and habitat monitoring and designation