Purpose

To consider the transfer of the land known as Mortimer
Terrace Nature Reserve to the local community and to consider
agreeing the preparatory works for declaring the land to be a site
of Local Nature Reserve.

Content

RESOLVED –
 
THAT, subject to compliance with all
statutory requirements and having had due regard to the obligations
in section 149 of the Equality Act 2010 and the EqIA
contained at Appendix 2, in order to enable the
preservation of the Mortimer Terrace Nature Reserve for the future
benefit of the people of Camden it be agreed:
 

(i)           
That the Council will, at the end of the current lease, begin
the process of declaring Mortimer Terrace Nature Reserve as a Local
Nature Reserve (pursuant to Section 21 of the National Parks and
Access to the Countryside Act) and authority be delegated to the
Executive Director Supporting Communities to take all necessary
steps to achieve this goal.
 

(ii)         
That authority be delegated to the Executive Director
Supporting Communities to take all necessary steps to transfer the
freehold to community ownership (envisaged to be through the Camden
Makers Community Land Trust) at zero cost on terms which
safeguard its use as a nature reserve at all times
going forward.
 

(iii)        
To note the application to maintain the Nature
Reserve’s status as an Asset of Community Value and the
Council, as landowner, support of this application.