Issue - meetings

(i)              to approve the draft Tree & Woodland Strategic Implementation Plan (Appendix A) and associated Strategic Environmental Assessment (Appendix B);

(ii)             to instruct the Chief Officer – Operations and Protective Services to carry out an 8-week public consultation on the Tree & Woodland Strategic Implementation Plan and associated documentation,

(iii)            to instruct the Chief Officer - Operations and Protective Services, to report back to Operational Delivery Committee in January 2022 detailing;

(a)       The findings of the public consultation; and

(b)       A final draft of Aberdeen City Tree & Woodland Strategic Implementation Plan for approval and publication;

(iv)           to request that officers look at the policy of not removing healthy trees even though they are older and may deliver a cost saving and to investigate if this can be incorporated into the final version; and

(v)             to request that officers consider replanting where diseased trees had to be removed.

The Committee had before it a report by the Chief Officer – Operations and Protective Services, which sought approval for the draft Tree & Woodland Strategic Implementation Plan and associated Strategic Environmental Assessment to go out to public consultation.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)            approve the draft Tree & Woodland Strategic Implementation Plan (Appendix A) and associated Strategic Environmental Assessment (Appendix B);

(b)            instruct the Chief Officer – Operations and Protective Services to carry out an 8-week public consultation on the Tree & Woodland Strategic Implementation Plan and associated documentation; and

(c)             instruct the Chief Officer - Operations and Protective Services, to report back to Operational Delivery Committee in January 2022 detailing;

(a)       The findings of the public consultation; and

(b)       A final draft of Aberdeen City Tree & Woodland Strategic Implementation Plan for approval and publication.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)              to request that officers look at the policy of not removing healthy trees even though they are older and may deliver a cost saving and to investigate if this can be incorporated into the final version of the plan;

(ii)             to request that officers consider replanting where diseased trees had to be removed; and

(iii)            to otherwise approve the recommendations contained in the report. 

The Committee resolved:-

(i)              to note that the learning centre association were satisfied with the proposed new operational agreement as appended to the report;

(ii)             to authorise the Chief Officer – Early Intervention and Community Empowerment to approve the operational agreement for each individual learning centre association; and

(iii)            to authorise the Chief Officer – Early Intervention and Community Empowerment to approve any alterations to the operational agreements as may be required from time to time.

The Committee had before it a report by the Chief Officer – Early Intervention and Community Empowerment, which provided Committee with the outcome of the review, instructed by Committee on 9 January 2020, of the Council’s operational agreements with learning centre associations and sought authorisation for the approval of new operational agreements.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)            note that the learning centre associations are satisfied with the proposed new operational agreement as appended to this report;

(b)            authorise the Chief Officer – Early Intervention and Community Empowerment to approve the operational agreement for each individual learning centre association; and

(c)             authorise the Chief Officer – Early Intervention and Community Empowerment to approve any alterations to the operational agreements as may be required from time to time.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)              to request that a Service Update be issued to members with details on Leased Community Centres; and

(ii)             to otherwise approve the recommendations.