Issue - meetings

(To receive a report from the Executive Director – Place which seeks approval of the Draft Green Masterplan)

That the Green Masterplan be approved.

The Head of Environment introduced a report which presented Lincolnshire County Council's Green Masterplan for approval.  The Executive was advised that this had been designed to be a web based resource which would be accessible by the public and would be updated regularly.  It was highlighted that the Green Masterplan set out three main principles which were:

·         Not wasting anything

·         Taking advantage of the wider opportunities

·         Taking responsibility and pride for our contribution

The aim was to build in new approaches across the services that the Council delivered.

Councillor C R Oxby, Vice Chairman of the Environment and Economy Scrutiny Committee summarised the comments made when this was considered at its meeting on 12 January 2021 and was supported unanimously.  It was highlighted that there was increased pressure for the companies that supplied plastic products to take more responsibility for how they were disposed of.  The Executive Councillor for Commercial and Environmental Management commented that the scrutiny Committee did consider this report in great detail, but that there was no single answer to the issue of plastics.  It was felt there would need to be a range of measures in place.

The Executive welcomed and supported the report and it was highlighted that this was not a new initiative, but something the Council had been working hard to put into practice for ten years.

RESOLVED

That the Green Masterplan be approved.