Decision details
ENVIRONMENT PRINCIPLES
PDF 112 KBDecision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
To adopt a set of environmental principles for Huntingdonshire District Council (HDC) and its activities that align with those developed as part of the Oxfordshire-Cambridgeshire Arc (Ox-Cam Arc).
Decision:
The Cabinet has:
(a) agreed that the environmental principles form the basis upon which to inform the renewal of Huntingdonshire’s Strategy for the Environment, centred on achieving an environmentally positive recovery; and
(b) recommended to Council to:
(i) adopt the aspiration of a net carbon zero Huntingdonshire by 2040; and
(ii) adopt the OxCam Arc environmental principles.
Reasons for the decision:
As outlined in the report.
Alternative options considered:
As outlined in the report.
Resource Implications:
As outlined in the report.
Report author: Joanne Lancaster
Publication date: 15/10/2021
Date of decision: 14/10/2021
Decided at meeting: 14/10/2021 - Cabinet
Effective from: 23/10/2021
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