Issue - meetings

Report of the Service Manager Parks and Street Care.

The Service Manager Parks and Street Care introduced a report, which had been circulated in advance of the meeting, seeking Cabinet approval to designate Gedling Country Park as a Local Nature Reserve.

Members congratulated all of the officers involved in the project and thanked

RESOLVED to:

1)    Designate Gedling Country Park, which is in council ownership, as a Local Nature Reserve;

2)    Authorise the Director of Health and Community Wellbeing and the Director of Organisational Development and Democratic Services, in conjunction with the Service Manager Parks and Street Care, to proceed with the publication and designation process; and

3)    Adopt the 5 year site Management plan produced by EMEC Ecology, updated by Parks Development Staff and the ‘friends of group’.

4)    Formally thank the Friends of Gedling Country Park and associated volunteers, for their continued support and contribution to the development of Country Park and their input into its designation as a local nature reserve.