Biodiversity
Biodiversity is, literally, the variety of life on earth. It embraces all living plants and animals and the ecosystems on which they depend. Biodiversity is everywhere: in gardens, fields, hedgerows, mountains, rivers and in the sea.
At a local level, biodiversity greatly influences the character of our landscape. Carmarthenshire is justly renowned for its magnificent coast, quiet estuaries, steep wooded valleys and rugged uplands. Throughout much of the rest of the county there is a patchwork of woodlands and fields, bounded by the hedge-banks that are frequently of historic importance. The sea and seabed around the Carmarthenshire coast are also rich in species, some of which are of considerable economic importance.
This natural beauty of the county is a major factor on which the local tourism and recreation industries depend. Biodiversity is therefore fundamental to the physical, economic and spiritual well-being of all who live and work in Carmarthenshire.
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Planning Ecology
- A Guide for Ecological Consultants
- Net Benefit for Biodiversity
- Protected Species and habitats
- New phosphate targets
Listed buildings
- Understanding listing
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- Works to a listed building without consent
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Street naming and numbering
Renewable Energy
Local Development Plan 2018 - 2033
- Integrated Sustainability Appraisal and Habitats Regulations Assessment
- Delivery Agreement
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- Submission and Independent Examination
- Second Deposit Revised Local Development Plan
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- Development of an evidence base
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- First Deposit Revised LDP
Planning permission for developers
- Section 106: Affordable homes
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- Development Viability Model (DVM) Assessment Tool
Local Development Order (LDO)
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Conservation & countryside
Waste
Biodiversity
- Why biodiversity matters?
- Priority Species in Carmarthenshire
- Priority Habitats in Carmarthenshire
- Carmarthenshire Nature Partnership
- HLF Bogs project
- Marsh fritillary project
- Hedgerows
- Woodlands
- Pollinators
- Get out and about!
- Legislation and Guidance
- Protected sites
- Ash dieback disease
- Wildlife in your Ward
Conservation Areas
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