Object
Central Bedfordshire Design Guide SPD
Representation ID: 16206
Received: 16/03/2023
Respondent: Cllr Victoria Harvey
Flowering bushes and hedges including some non native species if they support pollinators and birds should be included as well as native hedging in boundary treatements. Native hedging such as very prickly hedging of hawthorn etc is not always appropriate and is frequently cut so that it does not provide flowers or berries. There is also a real shortage of flowering shrubs for pollinators.
Figure 2.17 is a biodiversity desert, whereas 2.20 with the flowering aubretia is beautiful and good for pollinators.
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Flowering bushes and hedges including some non native species if they support pollinators and birds should be included as well as native hedging in boundary treatements. Native hedging such as very prickly hedging of hawthorn etc is not always appropriate and is frequently cut so that it does not provide flowers or berries. There is also a real shortage of flowering shrubs for pollinators.
Figure 2.17 is a biodiversity desert, whereas 2.20 with the flowering aubretia is beautiful and good for pollinators.