Decision details

Hampshire County Council has published its final draft Local Nature Recovery Strategy for public consultation. The consultation commenced on 12 May 2025 and closes on 23 June 2025.

New Forest District Council has the opportunity to respond to the draft strategy before it is revised, and a final version is distributed for approval by Supporting Authorities (Hampshire local authorities) in the autumn of 2025. The final version will then be submitted to Government at the end of 2025.

On 11 June 2025, Cllr Derek Tipp the Portfolio Holder for Planning and Economy made the following decision:

To agree the proposed response to the Local Nature Recovery Strategy provided as Appendix A.

Any member of the Council, who is not a Portfolio Holder, who considers that this decision should be reviewed should give notice using the call-in facility at the top of this page on the Council’s intranet / extranet site. Alternatively, notice can be given to the Monitoring Officer (Matt Wisdom) (in writing or by e-mail) to be received ON OR BY 5.15 pm on Wednesday, 18 June 2025.

Details of the document the Portfolio Holder considered are attached below.

To enable Hampshire County Council to move forward with the adoption of the new strategy

See report