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Northumberland Stewardship and Rural Growth Investment Programme
– Nature Recovery Response
 
RESOLVED
that
 
(a )     Cabinet accept, in principle and
subject to the approval of the North of Tyne Combined Authority
(NTCA) Cabinet, the role of leading the development of the
statutory North of Tyne Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) on
behalf of the Combined Authority;
 
(b )     Cabinet endorse the
Council’s role as accountable body for the participation of
the English part of the Borderlands area in the Government’s
Local Investment in Natural Capital (LINC) programme;
 
(c )     Cabinet accept the anticipated
grant awards of £0.285 million and £1.000 million
respectively for the development of the North of Tyne LNRS and the
delivery of the Borderlands LINC into the Council’s revenue
budget;
 
(d )     Cabinet agree to declaring an
ecological emergency to further strengthen the Council’s
commitment to rural stewardship and to demonstrate the significant
role of nature recovery in mitigating the climate
emergency;
 
(e )     Cabinet develop a response,
within the context of our Climate Change Action Plan, to the
ecological emergency using our new obligations under the
Environment Act 2021 as a framework; namely the development of a
Local Nature Recovery Strategy; the strengthened duty to conserve
and enhance biodiversity with a requirement to publish action plans
and progress reports; and the introduction of mandatory
biodiversity net gain in the planning system; and
 
(f )      A progress report be made
to Cabinet in six months.