Issue - meetings

          The Board received a report which provided Members with a progress report on the work of the Working Party that was established to review the Council’s coppicing works programme. The first meeting of the Working Party took place on 12 July and Members received a presentation on what structure planting is and how the Council managed its plantations, including some of the issues the Council faced.

          Following a discussion on the Council’s programme for the management of structure planting and a number of matters raised by Members, it was agreed that the next step would be for a field study visit to be arranged for Members to observe previous structure planting works that had been carried out at a number of locations across the Borough. The field study would take place by the end of September 2022.

          RESOLVED: That the report be received.