Agenda item

Report of the Director of Open Spaces.

To be read in conjunction with a non-public appendix at item 27. 

The Committee considered a report of the Director of Open Spaces on the Proposed development and submission of a partnership funding bid to Heathrow Airport Limited. The report outlined a partnership proposal to develop a funding submission to the Secretary of State of Transport to create and restore Habitats of Principle Importance (HPI) in and around the Burnham Beeches SAC.

The Chairman commented that he supported the report and requested that Officers aim to maximise income from the project.

RESOLVED- That: -

1. The Delegated Authority be granted to the Director of Open Spaces, in consultation with the Chairman and Deputy, to agree a Memorandum of Understanding with Heathrow Airport Limited that will:

a.    Guide the City’s ‘promotion and coordination role’ during the development of the project

b.    Lead to the submission of a collaborative bid to Heathrow Airport Limited to fund a landscape scale project that will secure ‘net biodiversity gain’ in and around Burnham Beeches SAC.

2. That the indicative timetable (paragraph 12) provided by Heathrow Airport Limited be noted.