Issue - meetings

Report of Director of Service Delivery

Lead Cabinet members: Councillors Jonathan Dow and Colin Swansborough

(Key decision):

(1) To approve the Eastbourne Borough Council Biodiversity Strategy 2021-2025 set out at Appendix 1 to the report.

(2) To approve the associated Action Plan, set out at Appendix 2 of the Biodiversity Strategy.

The Cabinet considered the report of the Director of Service Delivery, introducing a proposed Biodiversity Strategy and associated work plan.

Visiting member, Councillor Di Cara addressed the Cabinet on this item.

The Cabinet advised that the list of partner organisations would continue to grow as the strategy was implemented. The Director of Service Delivery added that financial monitoring would take place on a weekly and monthly basis to carefully determine whether budgets would need to be realigned to meet all the objectives and actions in the strategy. The Director of Service Delivery also reassured that disability access would be a key consideration for any new schemes and initiatives.

Thanks were conveyed to officers for their work in putting the strategy together.

Resolved (Key decision):

(1) To approve the Eastbourne Borough Council Biodiversity Strategy

2021-2025 set out at Appendix 1 to the report.

(2) To approve the associated Action Plan, set out at Appendix 2 of the

Biodiversity Strategy.

Reason for decisions:

To set out the principles and approach to supporting biodiversity and to provide a framework and work plan for Eastbourne Borough Council in its collaborative approach to protecting and enhancing natural assets.