Representation by Jacky Langton
- Date submitted
- 16 March 2021
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
I am a member of the Kent Botanical Recording Group, I remember a Group Meeting in 2015 to Swanscombe Peninsular and am very concerned about the NSIP submission for a London Resort theme park there. It is an area of extreme natural history interest, recently designated as an SSSI, and it is completely inappropriate for development as a theme park. The area is certainly not just a brownfield site, but a wonderful mosaic of habitats where a huge variety of wildlife has established itself. Recorded here are 13 Nationally Scarce species of plants which includes 5 red-listed species, 15 red-listed species of Birds of Conservation Concern and 12 Species of Principal Importance, there are locally important populations of reptiles and of bats, water vole and otters, invertebrates include 250 Species of Conservation Concern. In view of the fact that wildlife is rapidly declining in Britain, it is vital that this site, of huge scientific interest and value, should be protected. As Natural England has now confirmed the SSSI designation the submission should be reviewed in the light of the knowledge that the site is a unique, immensely important area for wildlife, and must therefore be conserved.