Issue - meetings

As detailed in the recommendation.

Councillor Healey introduced the report which provided details on how the Council was making progress in delivering its biodiversity duty under Section 6 of the Environment (Wales) Act 2016.

Flintshire County Councils Biodiversity Duty Delivery Plan 2020-2023, titled ‘Supporting Nature in Flintshire’, was explained and the progress of action to deliver objectives was reviewed, highlighting key areas of biodiversity work within the County.  The report included the statutory Section 6 report which would be submitted to Welsh Government (WG) in January 2023 at the end of the second 3-year reporting round.

The Chief Officer (Planning, Environment and Economy) said the report had been submitted to the recent Environment and Economy Overview and Scrutiny Committee where the recommendations were supported.  Some positive suggestions were made at that meeting on how biodiversity was monitored from a planning perspective, which could be built into the monitoring report of the Local Development Plan (LDP).  The connection was made between biodiversity and the climate change agenda, and the Climate Change Committee would be requesting that biodiversity was placed on their forward work programme.

RESOLVED:

That the content of the report be noted and support for officer in their ongoing work associated with improving biodiversity be confirmed.