Decision Taken By: CABINET MEMBER FOR Planning and Transportation
Decision No: D110027MEM
Date: 22nd February 2011
Decision(s) and Reason(s)
The Future of the Public Forest Estate in England: A Public Consultation
Minutes
The report gave details of a consultation by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Forestry Commission on options for the future ownership and management of the 18% of England's woodlands currently run by the Forestry Commission. It was noted that there was one such area in the Borough.
Members noted that the Government had subsequently announced the withdrawal of the public consultation into the future of the public forest estate. However, the response as drafted would still be submitted as a record of the concerns raised by the Borough Council.
Following consideration by the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board, the Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation resolved that the issues set out in paragraphs 1.2.3 to 1.3.2 of the report be transmitted to the Government as the Borough Council's intended response to the consultation if it had not been withdrawn.
Reasons: As set out in the report submitted to the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board of 22 February 2011.
Signed M Balfour (Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation)
Signed Leader: M Worrall
Signed Chief Executive: D Hughes
Date of Publication: 25 February 2011
This decision will come into force and may then be implemented on the expiry of 5 working days after publication unless it is called in.