Issue - meetings
Biodiversity Duty - CBC First Considerations Report Adoption and Publication
Meeting: 28/01/2025 - Council (Item 71)
71 Biodiversity Duty - CBC First Considerations Report Adoption and Publication 
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To receive and consider the report of the Director of Planning and Development.
Additional documents:
Decision:
To approve, adopt and publish the Chorley Borough Council Biodiversity Duty First Considerations Report (Appendix 1) and implement the Key Actions and Objectives set out in the report.
Minutes:
The Executive Member (Customer, Streetscene and Environment), Councillor Adrian Lowe, presented the report of the Director of Planning and Property.
The purpose of the report was to demonstrate that the council was complying with the Biodiversity Duty imposed by the Natural Environment and Rural Communities (NERC) Act 2006 (as amended). This involved the completion of its first considerations in line with the Biodiversity Duty and adoption of Key Actions and Objectives to achieve and demonstrate compliance as set out in the report.
A typographical error was noted at 1.3 of the First Considerations Report as the council declared a climate emergency in 2019, rather than 2021.
The Executive Member (Customer, Streetscene and Environment), Councillor Adrian Lowe, proposed and the Deputy Portfolio Holder, Councillor Jean Sherwood seconded, and it was Resolved (unanimously)
To approve, adopt and publish the Chorley Borough Council Biodiversity Duty First Considerations Report (Appendix 1) and implement the Key Actions and Objectives set out in the report.