Bath and North East Somerset Council

"Therefore, alongside the work already underway, this Council formally declares an ecological emergency and will:14.Promote its existing core policy of ‘tackling the climate and nature emergency’ as stated in the B&NES Corporate Strategy and ensure that this policy drives what the Council does.15.Work with partners locally and regionally in the West of England to drive coordinated leadership and collaborative action on ‘tackling the climate and nature emergency’.16.Ensure the delivery of biodiversity and environmental enrichment and resist destruction of habitats through planning policy and development management.17.Review the Bath and North East Somerset Green Infrastructure Strategy during 2020-21 and use it as the nature emergency delivery framework and to increase local targets, whilst ensuring these are promoted through local and regional partnerships and embedded in local natural environment delivery projects such as Bathscape and Waterspace and management and connectivity of parks and green spaces and water spaces.18.Through the Bath and North East Somerset Local Plan Partial Review (2020), consider the potential to increase the percentage of biodiversity net gain beyond that required by the new Environment Bill and promote the same conversation within the West of England.19.Identify appropriate areas for habitat restoration within Bath and North East Somerset for wildlife.20.Continue to collaborate with our communities, businesses and other organisations, existing networks and partnerships, schools, colleges and universities, to improve ecological literacy and encourage greater biodiversity, tree-planting and management.21.Continue to work with our West of England partners to update the existing ecological audit.22.Continue to support the West of England Nature Partnership, as the region’s local nature partnership (LNP), to deliver a Nature Recovery Network at landscape scale."

— Full Council (Source)