Purpose

To consider and accept revisions to the
existing Tree Planting Plan following benchmarking, changes to
legislation,  updates to tree planting
sites and the introduction of new performance measures.

Decision

ROTHERHAM METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL

 

RECORD OF OFFICER EXECUTIVE DECISION

 

Date of Decision:

10th April
2024

Title:

Tree Planting Plan

Decision Maker:
(Including Job
Title)

Polly Hamilton
Assistant Director –
Culture Sport and Tourism
 
 

Details of Specific Cabinet
Delegation
or Delegation contained in the
relevant Sub-Scheme of Delegation.
 

As per Sub-Scheme of
Delegation:
 
The development of
plans, protocols and strategies for culture, leisure, sports, green
spaces, landscape design and tourism.

Decision:

To approve the March 2024 update
to the Tree Planting Plan 2021 - 2030

Reasons for the
Decision:

The Council
committed to several broad aims for tree planting within its Tree
Management & Maintenance Protocol which was first adopted in
August 2021 and an update subsequently adopted in December 2023.
The initial commitment in the protocol was for a minimum number of
trees to be planted over a ten-year period from 2021 to 2031, to
deliver a net increase in tree numbers and a net growth in woodland
cover across the Rotherham borough.
 
The Tree Planting Plan reports on
progress in the delivery against the targets in the plan, sets out
the consultation framework, the financial investment, and records
the existing and planned locations for future
planting.
 

Details of alternative
options considered and rejected:

Not to approve the Tree
Planting Plan.  This was rejected
because the Plan provides the best way to place on record the
information set out above.
 

Conflicts of interest
declared by any Cabinet Member consulted by the decision maker
which relates to the decision:

None.

Dispensations
Granted:
(If any)

N/A

Reports or parts of
reports considered

·      
Appendix 1 Tree Planting Plan
·      
Appendix 2 Equalities Screening Part A
·      
Appendix 3 Carbon Impact Assessment
·      
Appendix 4 Tree Safety Management
Protocol
 
The report of Zoe Oxley, Head of Operations and Business Transformation
and Andy Lee, Green Spaces Manager on
the March 2024 update of the Tree Planting Plan 2021 -
2030
 
 

 
I
certify that this is a true record of the executive decision to
….
 
Approve the March 2024 update
of the Tree Planting Plan 2021 – 2030
 
 
Signed by the
Decision Maker  

Dated:                                        
10th April 2024
 
Name:
                                       
Polly Hamilton
Job
Title:                                  
Assistant Director – Culture Sport and Tourism