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Government 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,...

Our 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...

The 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...

The 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...

On 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...

Malcolm 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’....

David 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...

Greg 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....

Posted by: Jeremy Garside On Wednesday 14th March, I was very pleased to attend the launch of the Food Farming and Rural Affairs Tees Valley Network organised by Tees Valley Rural Community Council (TVRCC). This is one of fourteen Rural Farming and Food Networks supported by Defra in England, with neighbouring Networks established to cover the whole...

Here is the first communication update from Sue Antrobus. A Tees Valley Nature Partnership development group has been set up to guide us through the process of becoming a Local Nature Partnership. At the moment this is composed of Jeremy Garside (Tees Wildlife Trust), Malcolm Steele (Tees Valley Unlimited), Bob Pailor (INCA), David Tarttelin (Environment...