Decision details

Tree Nursery Business Case

Decision Maker: Cabinet

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: No

Purpose:

A paper setting out the business case for the establishment of a tree nursery to enable and ensure the supply of trees to meet Warwickshire’s 2030 Climate Change tree planting pledges and replacement stock

Decision:

That Cabinet

 

1.     approves the business case as set out in this report to establish a Council run tree nursery on identified small holding land to produce trees in support of Warwickshire’s 2030 Climate Change tree planting pledges

2.     approves the use of £140,000 of funding from the Climate Change Action Fund to support the establishment of the tree nursery, and authorises the Strategic Director for Communities to take such other steps as he considers necessary to establish the nursery.

Report author: Scott Tompkins

Publication date: 09/09/2022

Date of decision: 08/09/2022

Decided at meeting: 08/09/2022 - Cabinet

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