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Draft Hounslow Biodiversity Action Plan 2010 – 2015
Chiswick Area Committee - Monitoring
Friday, 05 November 2010
WHAT IS BIODIVERSITY?
“The total variety of living things together with
their surroundings (or habitats). This their surroundings (or habitats). This
includes our surrounding, our communities
and ourselves”
WHY CONSIDER BIODIVERSITY?
• Section 40 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act (NERC) 2006 requires :
‘Every public authority must, in exercising its functions, have regards, so far as is consistent with the proper exercise of those functions to the
purpose of conserving biodiversity’.
• Hounslow Community Plan – Cleaner and Greener Community theme
• LSP Local Area Agreement: NI197 – Improving local biodiversity through positive conservation management
BIODIVERSITY IN HOUNSLOW
BIODIVERSITY IN CHISWICK
Gunnersbury Triangle
Gunnersbury Park
Chiswick House Grounds Turnham Green Park
PROTECTING BIODIVERSITY IN HOUNSLOW
Hounslow Biodiversity
Action Plan 2003 – 2008
Delivered by the Hounslow
Biodiversity Action Plan
Partnership
DRAFT HOUNSLOW BIODIVERSITY
ACTION PLAN 2010 - 2015
• Draft plan will aim to:
– Prioritise actions for protecting,
conserving and enhancing wildlife and
habitats
– Enable monitoring of biodiversity, and
– Help gauge the quality of our
surroundings through the indicators surroundings through the indicators
provided by the health of habitats and
species supported.
• HBAP is incorporated into
Council plans and policies
WHAT IS INVOLVED IN DELIVERING THE BAP
• Councils role is to:
– Coordinate the partnership
– Carry out habitats and species
surveys
– Monitor the development of
the BAP and
– Implement the actions outlined
within it
– Work with community groups
to protect and enhance
biodiversity in their local area
• Partnership meets quarterly
to discuss progress which is
reported back to DEFRA
HOUNSLOW WILDLIFE SITES AND THE
PLANNING FRAMEWORK
• Nature Environment Chapter: Objective ENV – N.2: To protect, provide, enhance and promote areas of high amenity value, Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Local Nature Reserves and other areas of nature conservation interest.
• Policy ENV-N.2.0 – To protect International Nature Conservation Sites.
• Policy ENV-N.2.1 - Strategic Nature Conservation Sites – encompasses national, regional and metropolitan nature conservation sites.
• Policy ENV-N.2.2 – Sites for Local Nature Conservation – Sites of Borough and Local Importance.
The UDP also contains other relevant policies including:
• ENV- N.2.3: Promotion of Nature Conservation Management
• ENV- N.2.4: Habitat Protection
• ENV- N.2.5: Habitat Reconstruction
• As well as various policies in the chapter on Waterways
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF IMPLEMENTING
THE BAP
• Currently using existing budgets, grants, environmental stewardship agreements, S106 etc.
• Develop a funding strategy to cost actions for which funding is not available and to identify funds.
CONSULTATION PROCEDURE
• 12 weeks from 1st November 2010 to 23rd January 2011
• Consulting with a range of local, regional and national bodies
• Response sheet has been produced for feedback
• Post consultation, the plan will be finalised and published online as well as implemented
RECOMMENDATIONS
That Members:
• Note the contents of the Draft Hounslow Biodiversity Action Plan 2010 – 2015 and the work undertaken by Members of the Hounslow Biodiversity Action Plan Partnership to develop the plan
• Approve and endorse the draft Hounslow Biodiversity Action Plan • Approve and endorse the draft Hounslow Biodiversity Action Plan and the implementation of the actions outlined within the document, as a basis for consultation
• Note the role of the plan in the planning process
• Note the consultation dates and timeline for adoption of the final plan.
T0 SUMMARISE
• The HBAP will aim to act as a focus for nature conservation action in the borough.
• The core partnership will continue to oversee the development and implementation of the plan but other members of the community will be encouraged to join the partnership
• A communications strategy and funding strategy will also be developed to promote the work of the partnership and the biodiversity value and resource that exists in the borough and to identify funding streams that will assist with the implementation of the actions outlined in the plan.
QUESTIONS?QUESTIONS?
For further information, please contact:
Ajit Bansal (Environmental Strategy Officer),
Environmental Strategy Unit,
London Borough of Hounslow,
Civic Centre, Lampton Road, Civic Centre, Lampton Road,
Hounslow, TW3 4DN.
Tel: 020 8583 3275
Email: ajit.bansal@hounslow.gov.uk
Environmental.strategy@hounslow.gov.uk