The Tees Valley Rural Community Council is hosting their annual Tees Valley Rural Summit. This is taking place at Preston Hall Museum Stockton-on-Tees on the 15th March 2013. This year the focus is on the natural environment with the programme including; a launch of the new Tees Valley Nature Partnership, an opportunity sharing the...
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TVNP takes forward Local Wildlife and Geological Sites in the Tees Valley. A delivery group of the dealing with Local Sites has been set up to ensure that that the TVNP takes forward its role as Local Sites Partnership for the Tees Valley from the Tees Valley Biodiversity Partnership. The Local Sites Group which...
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The TVNP are working with its partner organisations to create a “ Tees Valley Natural Networks and Opportunities Map” is planned order to inform the strategic economic development of the Tees Valley and enhance the quality of place for existing and future communities and potential investment. This work, which is funded by Defra and...
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The government has given Local Nature Partnerships (LNPs) a formal role in the planning process. Public bodies bound by the Duty to Co-operate should co-operate with and have regard to the views of LNPs in the planning of sustainable development. This means that LNPs now have a similar role to that of LEPs on...
Continue readingGovernment ministers gave the Tees Valley Nature Partnership their seal of approval during an announcement by Richard Benyon, Parliamentary Undersecretary for the Natural Environment on 17th July at a presentation at the Policy Exchange in London. Tees Valley was among the first 41 Local Nature Partnerships to be announced. Richard Benyon said “The vision,...
Continue readingOur application to be formally recognised as a Local Nature Partnership has been submitted to Defra. We would like to thank everyone involved for their support in developing our ideas and plans for the Tees Valley Nature Partnership; it has been a real team effort. Defra have advised that they plan to let all...
Continue readingThe deadline for applications to Defra to become a recognised LNP is rapidly approaching (6 June). The Tees Valley Nature Partnership Development Group have been very active in bringing together all of the input that we have received from our consultation discussions and workshops with stakeholder. We are developing this into a framework to...
Continue readingThe natural environment is important for our economy so it is vital that the value of nature is embedded into decisions made to create economic growth. The developing Tees Valley Nature Partnership is discussing how we can work collaboratively with the Tees Valley Local Enterprise Partnership. We have produced a discussion paper to raise...
Continue readingOn the 27 March a stakeholder engagement event was held specifically for existing partners of the Tees Valley Biodiversity to involve them as stakeholders in the process of the development of the Tees Valley Nature Partnership. Specific aims were: To gather partners’ views on the broad direction the TVNP should follow, To develop a...
Continue readingMalcolm Steele Tees Valley Unlimited As many of you will have realised the Government issued the final version of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) on Tuesday 27th March – and it came into effect immediately. It replaces all previous planning policy guidance and statements, including Planning Policy Statement 9 ‘Biodiversity and Geological Conservation’....
Continue readingDavid Tarttelin Environment Agency What a busy two days – first the workshop for TVBP partners at Cowpen Bewley Woodland Park on Tuesday and then our meeting with the Local Authority Directors of Place on Wednesday! I really enjoyed the Workshop – the weather was perfect and the cakes even more so. Seriously, there...
Continue readingGreg Clark, the Minister of State (Decentralisation), Communities and Local Government made the following Written Ministerial Statement on the 15th March in Parliament an update on Local Planning Regulations and a reference to Local Nature Partnerships. Here is a copy of his written statement and I have bolded the text for Local Nature Partnerships....
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