Agenda item

To receive and approve the Witney Town Council Bio-Diversity Policy subject to any changes deemed necessary by the Climate, Biodiversity & Planning Committee at their meeting 26 November 2024.

The Committee received and considered a draft Biodiversity Policy.

Members were pleased to see most of the suggestions in the policy were already being undertaken by the Council and asked that the employment of a Biodiversity & Green Spaces Officer be included as a further way it demonstrated its biodiversity obligations.

Resolved:

That, subject to any amendments by the Climate, Biodiversity & Planning Committee on 26 November 2024, the Biodiversity Policy be approved and adopted by Witney Town Council.