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Yahoo
12-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Consultation begins on nature recovery project
People are being asked for their views on a draft document outlining measures to support nature recovery. The Cumbria Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) aims to restore and connect habitats so that important species across the county can thrive. A six-week public consultation will close on 22 June, with a goal to agree the best places to plant trees, restore peatland, improve grassland condition and mitigate flood risk. Councillor Giles Archibald, LNRS Project Board Chair, said: "We must shift our collective focus towards ensuring the finalised strategy is not just a document on a shelf, but a call for action that delivers real, tangible and lasting benefits for nature across Cumbria." A draft version provides seven priorities, including safeguarding existing important areas, improving data and reducing the spread of invasive non-native species. "The Cumbria Local Nature Recovery Strategy will be an important tool, guiding our efforts and ensuring that we work collaboratively to create an action plan for the council, our communities, and everyone who lives in, works in, or visits Cumbria," Archibald said. Cumbria is one of 48 designated strategy areas in England developing their own LNRS. Once finalised and submitted to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the strategy will be a guiding document to be reviewed every 3 to 10 years to ensure it is still effective. Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram. Map shows 80% of peatlands dry and degraded Water quality monitors moved after activist tests Westmorland and Furness Council Cumbria Local Nature Recovery Strategy
BBC News
12-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Cumbria nature recovery strategy consultation begins
People are being asked for their views on a draft document outlining measures to support nature Cumbria Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) aims to restore and connect habitats so that important species across the county can thrive.A six-week public consultation will close on 22 June, with a goal to agree the best places to plant trees, restore peatland, improve grassland condition and mitigate flood Giles Archibald, LNRS Project Board Chair, said: "We must shift our collective focus towards ensuring the finalised strategy is not just a document on a shelf, but a call for action that delivers real, tangible and lasting benefits for nature across Cumbria." A draft version provides seven priorities, including safeguarding existing important areas, improving data and reducing the spread of invasive non-native species."The Cumbria Local Nature Recovery Strategy will be an important tool, guiding our efforts and ensuring that we work collaboratively to create an action plan for the council, our communities, and everyone who lives in, works in, or visits Cumbria," Archibald is one of 48 designated strategy areas in England developing their own LNRS. Once finalised and submitted to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the strategy will be a guiding document to be reviewed every 3 to 10 years to ensure it is still effective. Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
BBC News
23-03-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Barrow's 'disgraceful' litter problem on road into town
Calls have been made for an "absolutely disgraceful" litter problem on the road into a town to be Anne Burns urged Westmorland and Furness Council to take tackle the issue on the A590 into Barrow, Labour councillor, who represents the Old Barrow and Hindpool ward, told a meeting that the road had never been in such a state. Cabinet member for environmental services at the Lib Dem-led authority, Giles Archibald, said the council was "very aware" of the problem and enforcement action would be taken. Burns said: "We want our streets clean, we want our area coming into Barrow not to look like a tatty add-on to this authority."She had previously warned there was an "epidemic of litter" in Barrow, at a council meeting in January, the Local Democracy Reporting Service pledged to have a walk around the affected area with said: "We have a suspicion of which businesses this might be, but I wouldn't mention this in a public meeting. "We are aware of this, we want to seek remediation, and officers are working on that now." Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
BBC News
08-02-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
More than 40% of Barrow-in-Furness recycling not recycled
A significant proportion of a town's recycling was sent to landfill or incinerated, a Freedom of Information (FOI) request has figures for April 2023 to March 2024 show 41.5% of the kerbside collections for residents in the former Barrow Borough Council area were rejected for being unsuitable or compares with 2.7% the former South Lakeland area and 3.1% for the former Eden and Furness Council Liberal Democrat cabinet member Giles Archibald said recycling rates in the Barrow locality were "not where they should be" and work was being carried out to make services more effective and efficient. The FOI by the Local Democracy Reporting Service showed 721,716 stone (4,583,110 kg) of waste put out for recycling by Barrow residents was collected but 299,227 stone (1,900,180 kg) was rejected and sent to landfill or Borough Council moved its waste services in-house in October 2022 after it was previously provided by an external contractor. 'Avoiding contamination' Local government reorganisation in April 2023 then saw Westmorland and Furness Council take over responsibility for services provided by the authority, along with those of Eden District Council, South Lakeland District Council and Cumbria County a council meeting in January, Conservative group deputy leader Matt Brereton asked when the administration was going to get "its act together" with waste said work was being done to "harmonise waste and recycling services" and make them more efficient."We recognise that recycling rates in the Barrow locality are not where they should be," he council needed to educate residents about the importance of minimising waste and help them "better understand which items could be recycled so that only these items are placed in the recycling box and bin, avoiding contamination which reduces recycling", he said. Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram. Send your story ideas here
