Agenda item

Pursuant to Cabinet Minute No. 98 (2021/22) The Service Director – Leisure, Culture and Community Wellbeing submitted a report seeking approval of a new Parks and Open Spaces Strategy for 2022 – 2030.

A public consultation on the draft Parks and Open Spaces Strategy took place between August and October 2021.

The previous Parks and Open Spaces Strategy was adopted in 2014. The updated strategy would become the key document guiding the Council’s protection of and investment in the borough’s parks and open spaces for the next ten years. A copy of the draft Parks and Open Spaces Strategy was attached at Appendix A, parts 1 and 2, of the officer’s report.

RESOLVED –

1.   That the new Parks and Open Spaces Strategy, for the period 2022 through 2030, be approved and adopted.

2.   That the Service Director for Leisure, Culture and Community Wellbeing be invited to develop a five-year costed delivery plan, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, to give effect to the Strategy’s aims and objectives and for this delivery plan to be presented for approval at future meetings of the Cabinet and Full Council.