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Biodiversity(nature conservation) strategy

The City Council’s Biodiversity Strategy was approved by Full Council on 13th October 2010 to be adopted as part of the Council’s Major Policy Framework. The Strategy was an update of the 2004 document which was subject to external consultation throughout 2009/10.

The decision to update our current biodiversity strategy was taken to take account of the biodiversity duty brought in by the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act as well as other changes that have taken place since the 2004 strategy was written. The biodiversity duty stipulates that:

"Every public authority must, in exercising its functions, have regard, so far as is consistent with the proper exercise of those functions, to the purpose of conserving biodiversity"

The updated strategy links to the Sustainable Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement by the national indicator target for County Wildlife Sites (NI 197) and more broadly to the Community Strategy and National Indicators by the Cleaner Greener agenda and associated sections of these documents.

The strategy currently consists of the following documents:


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PDF file icon  Appendix A - Vision Statement and Broad Approach
  (52KB, 2 pages)

PDF file icon  Appendix B - Specific Action to achieve the Vision and Broad Approach
  (68KB, 6 pages)

PDF file icon  Appendix C - Extraction of Specific Actions and Resource Implications
  (1893KB, 32 pages)

PDF file icon  Appendix D Consideration of external feedback on update of PCC Biodiversity Strategy
  (106KB, 12 pages)