AN Oxfordshire council is making renewed efforts to ensure developers who build in the Cherwell district contribute to improving the natural environment.
Cherwell District Council's executive committee approved the 2020-2022 Community Nature Plan and its approach to addressing the council’s statutory biodiversity duty.
The plan sets out a vision to 'work with partners to protect and enhance the region's natural environment for its intrinsic value, the services it provides, the health and wellbeing of people; its contribution to climate change adaptation and resilience, and the economic prosperity that it brings'.
Its key purpose is to ensure the council meets its statutory biodiversity duty under the Natural Environment and Rural Communities (NERC) Act 2006, a duty that will be strengthened by the Environment Bill.