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RESIDENTS in part of Oxfordshire are being urged to transform their gardens and community green spaces into friendly environments for wildlife to thrive. The 18-month-long Wild Bicester project which has just launched aims to bring people and nature together to create a ‘greener, healthier and wilder Bicester’. The scheme is being delivered by Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT), Bicester Garden Town, Cherwell District Council, Healthy Bicester and the town council. It will encourage and enable people of all ages and backgrounds to get involved and turn their homes and other local green spaces into wildlife-rich areas. Some of the ways people can do this include creating a bee hotel, growing a wildlife-friendly vegetable garden, building a hedgehog home and learning how to attract butterflies to their garden.
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.