Issue - meetings

A report was submitted, which advised that a Trees and Woodland Strategy was a key tool for ensuring treescapes flourished and were protected for the future. The Tree and Woodland Strategy (TAWS) has been developed to formally acknowledge the long[1]term benefits that trees and woodland could bring to  local communities in Blackburn with Darwen and the commitment to foster and protect it.

Although not a Planning document, the TAWS feed into and complimented other Strategies, Policies, and guidelines across the Council and vice versa, such as:

 • Local Plan 2021-2037Climate Emergency Action Plan

• Biodiversity ‘First considerations’ report and objectives/actions

• Woodland management plans

 • Tree Risk Management Framework

 • Open Spaces Strategy

The TAWS presented a vision of where the Council want the Borough to be by 2030 and introduced a series of objectives to achieve that vision, with those objectives then supported by a series of identified actions, set out in an Action Plan.

RESOLVED - It is recommended that the Executive Board approves the Tree and Woodland Strategy attached at appendix 1 to the report.