Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Environment

Forward Plan Ref: 2021/032

Contact: Rachel Wileman, Assistant Director Strategic Infrastructure & Planning Tel: 07554 103691

Report by Corporate Director Communities (CA11).

To seek agreement of a report setting out the intention of the County Council to support the establishment of a new County wide environment advisory group ( as part of Oxfordshire Growth Board Governance and subject to endorsement by the Oxfordshire Growth Board) and to agree the Oxfordshire - Cambridge Arc environmental principles ( subject to endorsement at the OxCam ARC Plenary meeting) .

Recommendations agreed.

Cabinet considered a report seeking support for the intention of the County Council to support the establishment of a new County wide environment advisory group ( as part of Oxfordshire Growth Board Governance and subject to endorsement by the Oxfordshire Growth Board) and to agree the Oxfordshire - Cambridge Arc environmental principles ( subject to endorsement at the OxCam ARC Plenary meeting)

Councillor Ian Hudspeth, Leader of the Council introduced the contents of the report and moved the recommendations.

RESOLVED:           to 

(a)          Acknowledge the breadth of County Council partnership activity for              climate action, environmental resilience and renewal in Oxfordshire.

(b)        Support the establishment of an Environment Advisory Group of the Oxfordshire Growth Board and its Terms of Reference as set out at Appendix 1, subject to the outcome of the meeting of the Growth Board on 22 March.

(c)Endorse the shared principles for protecting, restoring and enhancing the environment in the Oxford to Cambridge Arc, as set out at Appendix 2.

(d)        Support the development of an Arc Environment Strategy which will provide for how the principles can be delivered and delegate authority to the Corporate Director Environment and Place, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environment to take this forward.

(e)        Note progress concerning the development of a Local Nature Partnership for Oxfordshire.