Now that external consultation has taken place
the responses are being considered and any amendments will be
made to the draft strategy in consultation with
the working group. Once this has been completed the updated
strategy will then be formally
scrutinised by elected members and the
endorsement/adoption processes. Once an updated strategy has been
approved we will publish it on this web page.
We have decided to update our current biodiversity
strategy as we need 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 would be linked 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 draft strategy currently consists of the following
documents:
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- Annex A: A vision
statement and Broad Approach.
- Annex B: Specific
actions to achieve the vision statement.
- Annex C: Summary of
Biodiversity Action Plan targets for Cambridgeshire and
Peterborough (unchanged from 2004 strategy).
- Annex D: Analysis of
the requirements of the specific actions and their financial
implications (exact figures have been removed).
- Annex E: Suggested Policy
with respect to works to trees, shrubs and hedges during the bird
nesting season.
- Illustrative drawings
to show possible extensions to habitat networks are also
included