Issue - meetings

To note the current position with regards to the Motions presented to Full Council on the 26 September 2019.

Councillor N. Bramhall, Executive Member for Neighbourhood Services,  introduced the report which set out the approach of the Executive in response to the Motions on Wildlife Friendly Public Spaces and Declaring a Climate Emergency, received by Council on 29 September 2019.

An environmental sustainability consultancy had been engaged to prepare an Environmental Sustainability Strategy and Action Plan, which would recommend short, medium, and longer-term activities and interventions to deliver the Strategy.

An Officer Working Group had been created to consider the outcome of an options assessment, and to review the draft Action Plan and Strategy. A Member Working Group had been formed to provide Member engagement, and to review the draft options assessment, once it had been received from the consultants.

In response to questions from Visiting Members, Councillor Bramhall explained that the financial implications of the Action Plan would be identified as part of the development of the Strategy and prioritised accordingly. The Leader emphasised that the Executive wanted to be ambitious and would continue to demonstrate its environmental commitments through its actions. 

RESOLVED that the update in response to the Motions around declaring a Climate Emergency and creating Wildlife Friendly Public Spaces, be noted.