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The Green Infrastructure Strategy

 

 

Meeting: 11/01/2024 - Cabinet (Item 219)

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Purpose

The purpose of the report is to update the 2017 version of the Green Infrastructure, Open Space and Play Space Strategy. The strategy is an evidence paper that supports the Local Plan and its update being Green to the Core.

It provides guidelines on the above for:

• Developers and their agents,

• Statutory decision makers and consultees,

• Town and parish councils,

• Land owners/managers,

• The general public/community groups.

 

Recommendation

That Cabinet resolves to;

1.    Approve the Green Infrastructure Strategy for adoption.

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Minutes:

The purpose of the report was to propose to update the 2017 version of the Green Infrastructure, Open Space and Play Space Strategy.

 

The Cabinet Member for Planning and Regulatory Services, Councillor Juliet Layton introduced the report and outlined the following points:

 

  • The Green Infrastructure Strategy was identified as one that supports the Local Plan and the Council’s declaration of a Climate Change Emergency in 2019 and an ecology emergency in 2020.
  • Green Infrastructure describes environmental networks which includes as parks, green spaces, and waterways.
  • There were a variety of benefits of the strategy such as increasing biodiversity and improving health and wellbeing for residents.
  • The updated strategy worked with the Building with Nature standards benchmark and other standards such as the Cotswold Design Code.
  • A draft strategy went out for consultation in 2021 with the public and other organisations such as Town and Parish Councils.

 

Cabinet welcomed the number of key benefits from the strategy for health and wellbeing.

 

Councillor Layton proposed the recommendations and Councillor Joe Harris seconded them.

 

RESOLVED: That Cabinet

  1. APPROVED the Green Infrastructure Strategy for adoption.

 

Voting Record

 

6 For, 0 Against, 0 Abstentions, 2 Absent/Did not vote

 

For

Against

Abstentions

Absent/Did not vote

Joe Harris

 

 

Claire Bloomer

Juliet Layton

 

 

Lisa Spivey

Mike Evemy

 

 

 

Mike McKeown

 

 

 

Paul Hodgkinson

 

 

 

Tony Dale

 

 

 

 

 

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