Environmental Forum - 25 March 2015

ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM

 NOTICE AND AGENDA

 

For a meeting to be held in the Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House, Rickmansworth, on Wednesday 25 March 2015 at 7.30pm.

Councillors Alison Scarth, Kemal Butt, Paula Hiscocks, Wendy Jordan, Heather Kenison, David Major, Sue Stibbs and Len Tippen and one representative from each of the following organisations: -

 

Abbots Langley Parish Council - Parish Councillor Gloria Keaveny

Chorleywood Parish CouncilParish Councillor Barbara Green

Watford Rural Parish Council - Parish Councillor Brendan O’Brien

Sarratt Parish Council - Parish Councillor Mike Musk

Croxley Green Parish Council - Parish Councillor David Wynne-Jones

Rickmansworth and District Residents’ Association/Rickmansworth Waterways Trust - Peter Waters

Countryside Management Service - Tony Bradford/Isabel Crozier

Farming Community - Sally Findlay

Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust - Odette Carter

Watford Friends of the Earth and Friends of Croxley Common Moor - Graham Everett

Groundwork Herts - Alan Sweetman

Spokes (South West Herts Cycling Group) - Peter Loader

Herts Biological Records Centre - Martin Hicks

Friends of Chorleywood House Estate - Janet Anders

Affinity Water - Ellie Powers

Oxhey Woods Conservation Volunteers - Larsen Rivers

Curtis Conservation Group - Yvonne Stirling

Maple Lodge Conservation Society - Keith Pursall

Campaign for the Protection of Rural England - Dudley Edmunds

Friends of Carpenters Wood - Barbara Green

Chorleywood Residents’ Association - Georgiana Sol

Eastbury Residents’ Association - Elizabeth Willetts

Abbots Langley Transition Town Association - Ian Bond

 

Steven Halls, Chief Executive

11 March 2015

 

In accordance with The Openness of Local Government Bodies Regulations 2014 any matters considered under Part I business only of the meeting may be filmed, recorded, photographed, broadcast or reported via social media by any person.

Recording and reporting the Council’s meetings is subject to the law and it is the responsibility of those doing the recording and reporting to ensure compliance.  This will include the Human Rights Act, the Data Protection Act and the laws of libel and defamation.

 

1.         APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

 2.        NOTES 

            (a) To receive the Notes of the Meeting of the Environmental Forum held on Wednesday 22 October 2014 (attached).

             Environmental Forum Minutes 22 Oct 2014.doc

            (b) Matters arising (if not covered elsewhere on the agenda).

 

3.         PRESENTATION FROM AFFINITY WATER ON “OUR WATER SAVING PROGRAMME”

 

4.         BIODIVERSITY PROJECTS OFFICER REPORT

           (Kay FitzGerald) attached

           25-march-2015-report.doc (doc)

 

5.         MEMBERS’ INFORMATION EXCHANGE

            News, issues and Environmental Progress Reports.

 

6.         ANY OTHER BUSINESS (to alert the Chairman in advance of the meeting, please)

If any member wishes to speak, please advise Kay FitzGerald on 01923 776611, or e-mail kay.fitzgerald@threerivers.gov.uk or the Chairman, before the meeting.  Thank you.

 

7.         SPEAKERS FOR FUTURE MEETINGS AND NEXT MEETING

            To suggest Speakers for the next meeting and to note the next meeting is to be held on Wednesday 1 July 2015.