Issue - meetings

This report presents the Council Tree Management Plan and seeks support for its adoption. The Plan was subject to a 5-week stakeholder consultation, as agreed by this committee on 18 October 2022, and this report presents the outcome.

Following consideration, Councillor Steven McCormick proposed that an additional recommendation be added asking the Committee to agree that the Tree Management Plan be reviewed and revised to ensure the absence of grammatical and spelling errors and to include further information with regard to legislation in relation to tree management, and that any revisions be reviewed and approved by the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Committee.

The Committee unanimously agreed to the addition of the proposed recommendation.

The Committee unanimously resolved to:

(1)          Agree to adopt the Tree Management Plan set out in Appendix 1 of the report.

(2)          Agree that the Tree Management Plan set out in Appendix 1 of the report be reviewed and revised to ensure the absence of grammatical and spelling errors and to include further information with regard to legislation in relation to tree management, and that any revisions be reviewed and approved by the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Committee.

The Committee received a report presenting the Council Tree Management Plan and seeking support for its adoption.

The Committee considered the following matters:

a)            The Committee considered that the Tree Management Plan (as seen at appendix 1 of the report) ought to include further information with regard to legislation in relation to tree management in the interest of robustness and clarity. It was remarked that the Tree Management Plan contained grammatical and spelling errors that required correction.

b)            The Environment and Sustainability Officer explained that a number of the amendments to the Plan had been informed by a ‘tracked-changes’ document provided by the Tree Advisory Board in response to the consultation. He explained that there were a number of comments received relating to development and planning processes, and these comments had been passed onto the planning policy team for consideration.

c)            The Committee and the Chair agreed that the Plan should be brought to future meetings of the Committee for yearly review.

Councillor Steven McCormick proposed that an additional recommendation be added asking the Committee to agree that the Tree Management Plan be reviewed and revised to ensure the absence of grammatical and spelling errors and to include further information with regard to legislation in relation to tree management, and that any revisions be reviewed and approved by the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Committee.

The Committee unanimously agreed to the addition of the proposed recommendation.

Following consideration, the Committee unanimously resolved to:

(1)          Agree to adopt the Tree Management Plan set out in Appendix 1 of the report.

(2)          Agree that the Tree Management Plan set out in Appendix 1 of the report be reviewed and revised to ensure the absence of grammatical and spelling errors and to include further information with regard to legislation in relation to tree management, and that any revisions be reviewed and approved by the Chair and Vice-Chair of the Committee.

Following the conclusion of item 4, the Environment and Sustainability Officer left the meeting.