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… Maidstone Borough Council Biodiversity Strategy Contents Page Foreword Introduction Climate Change Biodiversity Themes and Aims Transport Buildings Generating Renewable Energy Reducing Waste and Energy Used in Processing Adapting to Climate Change Enhancing…
… and Maidstone Borough Council will have due regard to it. The Kent Biodiversity Strategy can be used to inform local planning policy and decisions. It provides a framework for delivering biodiversity net gain, ofering a focus for habitats and species of local importance and helping to identify areas for habitat management, restoration and creation. It will infuence the development of a Local Nature…
… residents and local groups willingness to act to support biodiversity. Maidstone Borough Council will ensure we have the expertise and staf to coordinate work on biodiversity in the borough. We will: Require biodiversity net gain on new developments with an emphasis on semi open natural spaces Agree and implement a Biodiversity Strategy Implement a plan to increase tree cover by at least 46…
… the challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. In April 2019 this Council approved a motion recognising global climate and biodiversity emergencies. It created the cross party Biodiversity and Climate Change Working Group cross to: • Consider a target date of 2030 for the whole of the Borough of Maidstone to be carbon neutral • Consider how the Council can strengthen local protection…
… managers. This will encourage land managers to use nature based solution to challenges including fooding 8 and water quality. The Act introduces biodiversity net gain into the planning system which requires all new developments to enhance biodiversity. This is expected to lead to the creation, or improvement, of habitat for wildlife providing improvements in air quality…