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Disclosures of Personal & Prejudicial Interests. Minutes: In accordance with the Code of Conduct adopted by the City and County of Swansea, no interests were declared. |
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To approve and sign the Minutes of the previous meeting(s) as a correct record. Minutes: Resolved that the Minutes of the Economy and Infrastructure Policy Development Committee held on 19 November 2020, be approved as a correct record. |
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Green Infrastructure Strategy. PDF 335 KB Additional documents:
Minutes: Councillor D H Hopkins, Cabinet Member for Delivery & Operations, Martin Nicholls, Director of Place and Penny Gruffydd, Sustainable Policy Officer presented the Green Infrastructure Strategy report which sought Committee approval prior to being presented to Cabinet in February 2021. It was outlined that the Strategy was designed to support the Local Development Plan
(LDP) Policy ER 2 Strategic Green Infrastructure Network and emerging
Supplementary Planning Guidance on Green Infrastructure. The
strategy contributed to the Council’s duties under the Well-being of Future
Generations (Wales) Act 2015, Environment (Wales) Act 2016 and would support
the application of the Statutory SuDS Standard
2019. It also delivered one of the steps in the Council’s well-being
objective: Maintaining and enhancing Swansea’s natural resources and
biodiversity and, the Swansea Public Service Board’s Working with Nature
Objective. It was added that the process to produce the Strategy included engagement with relevant Council stakeholders from the public, private and 3rd sectors, residents, visitors and users of the Swansea Central Area during the development of the draft strategy, followed by a 5 week consultation on the draft strategy. The report detailed how the Council’s Natural Environment
Section worked in collaboration with Natural Resources Wales (NRW) and Green
Infrastructure Consultancy to develop a draft Swansea Central Area Green
Infrastructure Strategy; Swansea Central
Area – Regenerating our City for Wellbeing and Wildlife, which was included at Appendix A. The Strategy was designed to realise the
green infrastructure aims of the Swansea Central Area Regeneration Framework
and ensure the city centre benefited from strategically planned green
infrastructure enhancements in both the planning of new development and the
refurbishment of existing buildings and public spaces. The strategy set out the benefits and cost-effectiveness of
green infrastructure which would enable the Council and stakeholders to take an
informed and joined up approach to maximising these benefits and would create
investor confidence in green infrastructure in the city centre. The report
provided details of the strategy development, including the strategy’s vision
and how the Council would use the strategy corporately. The
comments and actions from the public surveys, email, school
and Library sessions were all summarised at Appendix B. The sustainable development principle
and the ways of working which had been central to the development of this
strategy from its conception, were outlined at Appendix C. The Committee discussed the following:
- · The very positive partnership working with NRW to
produce the excellent strategy; · The importance of also improving air quality within
the County; · Concentrating the current strategy upon the city
centre, the ‘buy in’ from developers and developing the strategy throughout the
County as part of a three stage process; · Delays caused by the Covid 19 Pandemic; · Future funding of the project; · The vision of the strategy. Councillor R Francis-Davies, Cabinet
Member for Investment, Regeneration & Tourism stated that the Cabinet were
working together to progress regeneration schemes and added that a lot of
interest had been generated by the strategy, which was widely supported. Resolved that
the Strategy be agreed and forwarded to Cabinet for adoption in February 2021. |
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Work Plan 2020/2021. PDF 379 KB Minutes: The Chair presented the updated Work Plan 2020/2021 report. The
Director of Place highlighted the transport aspect of the Covid 19 recovery to
be discussed in January 2021. He made
reference to the aim of how the Council’s policies
could be amended and improved to support the delivery of the Council’s aim to be
net zero carbon by 2030, within
the services and operations of the Council.
He added that this was wide ranging and
would allow the Committee to input into the report which would be a framework
for discussion. Resolved that the contents of the report be noted. |