The recreational pressures arising from residential development within the Neighbourhood Plan area have a potentially harmful impact on the internationally important nature conservation sites within the Chiltern Beechwoods. To comply with both national and international legislation to protect the designated sites, measures need to be taken to ensure adverse effects on the integrity of protected sites from recreational impacts is avoided or mitigated. As such CBC have prepared a Mitigation for Recreational Impacts on the Chiltern Beechwoods sites Supplementary Planning Document (SPD)  

The SPD sets out the strategy using a suite of measures either provided by, or funded by, residential development within the CBC Local Plan area to provide the required mitigation. It also sets out design guidance for where and how on-site recreation mitigation should be provided as part of new development for allocations which have the potential to deliver 50 or more dwellings.

A Habitats Regulation Assessment has also been prepared to accompany the Leighton Linslade Neighbourhood Plan.