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Review Report - Provision of Woodland and Tree Management Strategy

Meeting: 11/03/2008 - Executive - for meetings from 03/06/00 to 26/04/11 (Item 180)

180 City Tree Strategy - Scoping Report PDF 46 KB

This report examines options for developing a strategic approach towards the management and protection of the City’s trees.

Additional documents:

Decision:

RESOLVED: That Option B, the production and implementation of a Council tree strategy, be approved.

REASON: To provide a strategic approach to tree management and future planning within the City of York.

Minutes:

Members considered a report which examined options for developing a strategic approach towards the management and protection of the City’s trees.

The report had been drafted to take account of the comments of Group Leaders in response to an initial scoping report presented to them in August 2007. It recommended the production and implementation of a Council tree strategy to streamline and improve the efficiency of current practices and procedures, increase the overall number of trees and areas of woodland and fulfil the authority’s duty to respond to the Regional Forestry Strategy for Yorkshire and the Humber. It would include a vision of the City’s aspirations; baseline data; short, medium and longer term targets; and an Action Plan that specified procedures and means of implementation. Details of current tree management arrangements were attached as Annex A to the report, and examples of potential actions for inclusion in the Action Plan at Annex B.

The options presented in the report were:

Option A – to make no change to the current way in which the Council manages the trees over which it has control and influence.

Option B – to approve the production and implementation of a Council tree strategy, as outlined and recommended in the report.

Should Option B be approved, it was proposed to present a draft Strategy and Action Plan to the Executive in July 2008 and a final version in December 2008, following consultation.

Having considered the comments of the Shadow Executive, it was

RESOLVED: That Option B, the production and implementation of a Council tree strategy, be approved.¹

REASON: To provide a strategic approach to tree management and future planning within the City of York.