Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution

I refer to your letter of the 21 July in connection with this new study.

The Council for Nature Conservation and the Countryside comments as follows:

Council welcomes the trend towards a strategic approach for environmental protection and is of the opinion that this should be encouraged;

We suggest that there must be clearly identifiable common goals and priorities at all levels of practice;

Council would welcome an approach which thoroughly addresses areas of real concern included under the broad topics. In this way more concerns will be identified and these too must be covered;

We believe that this study is central to carrying forward government's commitment to sustainable development and would hope that it will contribute to the on-going debate on how sustainable development and economic growth can go forward in tandem while recognising environmental risks attaching to inappropriate development.

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