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To enter into an agreement with the Wear
Rivers Trust to undertake a range of agreed activities with
volunteers cross a number of identified
Council-owned woodlands.
· The Wear Rivers Trust (WRT) have had
issues gaining permission from the council to undertake a range of
environmental activities with their volunteers on council land.
· The process to date has meant separate
licences from the Council or more recently, going through the
Safety Advisory Group (SAG). Neither are useful as they are onerous
and lengthy, often taking over 6 months for approval. Precise
details such as dates of activities is required, which is not
always possible eg. control of
non-native species cannot be pinned down to a particular day due to
variables such as the life cycle of the plant or the weather. The
WRT often work with school groups, who are not always in a position to plan so far ahead of time. There is
also a demand from local people to volunteer with the WRT with work
in their local woodlands.
· This licence agreement ensures that
systems and safeguards are in place to allow these activities to
take place whilst ensuring duty of care by the Council and the WRT.
It is a streamline process with some flexibility which allows for
the nature and scope of works.
· The agreement will be reviewed on an
annual basis. It is hoped that the agreement can be modified to
cover activities by other organisations on Council land, such as
the Probation Service.
 
ELECTORAL DIVISION/S 5.
Annfield Plain and
Tanfield
Langley and Esh
Belmont
Lower Teesdale
Bishop Auckland
Lumley and West Rainton
Bowburn and
Coxhoe
Murton
Brandon
Neville's Cross
Chester-le-Street North
North Lodge
Chester-le-Street South
Pelton
Chilton
Pittington and Sherburn
Consett North
Sacriston and
Witton Gilbert
Consett South
Sedgefield
Craghead and South Moor
Shildon and Dene Valley
Crook
Spennymoor
Deerness
Stanley
Delves Lane
Thornley and Wheatley Hill
Derwent and Pont Valley
Trimdon and Wingate
Easington and Shotton
Tudhoe
Elvet, Gilesgate
and Shincliffe
Upper Teesdale
Evenwood
Weardale
Ferryhill
West Auckland
Framwellgate and
Newton Hall
Willington and Hunwick
Lanchester and Burnhope