Issue - meetings

This report proposes that Acomb Wood and Acomb Meadow be declared a Local Nature Reserve as part of the development of a city wide network of Local Nature Reserves. As parts of the site are in differing Executive portfolios the report is presented to both the Executive Members for Housing and Leisure and Culture for approval.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member for Housing be advised to approve Option 1 and Acomb Wood & Acomb Meadow be designated as a Local Nature Reserve.

Decision of the Executive Member for Housing

RESOLVED:             That the advice of the Advisory Panel as set out above be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:                  The designation as an LNR would bring positive benefits to the local community and to the site itself. It would help preserve & enhance the site for future years, send a positive message to the local community, and ensure good management practices were followed in consultation with Natural England.

Members considered a report which proposed that Acomb Wood and Acomb Meadow be declared a Local Nature Reserve (LNR) as part of the development of a city wide network of Local Nature Reserves. As parts of the site were in differing Executive portfolios the report was presented to both the Executive Members for Housing and Leisure and Culture for approval.

Members were presented with two options:-

Option 1:             Declare Acomb Wood & Acomb Meadow as a Local Nature Reserve.

Option 2:             Do not declare Acomb Wood & Acomb Meadow as a Local Nature Reserve.

Members requested officers to investigate the split management of other sites and the implications of changing the management to being under one Executive portfolio.

Advice of the Advisory Panel

That the Executive Member for Housing be advised to approve Option 1 and Acomb Wood & Acomb Meadow be designated as a Local Nature Reserve.

Decision of the Executive Member for Housing

RESOLVED:             That the advice of the Advisory Panel as set out above be accepted and endorsed.

REASON:                  The designation as an LNR would bring positive benefits to the local community and to the site itself. It would help preserve & enhance the site for future years, send a positive message to the local community, and ensure good management practices were followed in consultation with Natural England.