Agenda

The Chairman has directed under Standing Order 36.9 (1) that the following Notice of Motion submitted by Councillor Taylor shall stand referred to the County Council.

East Sussex has a significant number of nature protected areas including National Landscapes, and National and Local Nature Reserves, that are essential for the local ecosystem survival and for carbon sequestration (of national relevance) and the survival of seriously endangered insects, wildlife and plant life. This Council does not accept the current Part 3 of the new Bill and will do everything we can to ensure our essential protected areas do not get destroyed by development.

This Council calls on the Leader to write to the Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Angela Rayner MP and the Right Honourable Steve Reed, to request:

?        That Part 3 of the Bill is withdrawn (or, if not, accept substantial amendments to improve protection and regeneration of nature in this part)

?        That positive proposals for nature are added to other parts of the Bill

?        Assurance that East Sussex nature protected sites remain fully protected

This Council also request that the Leader of the Council write to our local MPs asking them to support amendments to the bill that address the concerns outlined in the motion, and in the event that the bill remains substantially the same, to call on our MPs to vote against its adoption on the grounds that it will set back nature recovery whilst failing to help deliver either truly the affordable housing or the social housing local people need. 

a) Oral questions to Cabinet Members

b) Written questions of which notice has been given pursuant to Standing Order 44