Consultation Draft Bolsover Tree and Woodland Strategy
The Vision is the aspiration which drives positive change by encompassing the hopes, emotions, desires, and imaginations of all those who live and work in Bolsover District, and inspires them to turn it into a reality for all.
"To create a greener, healthier, and more connected Bolsover by nurturing and expanding our trees and woodlands, fostering community pride in them, enhancing biodiversity, and taking care of our trees and woodlands for the benefit of current and future generations."
The aim of this strategy is to create a clear and actionable roadmap for the long-term growth, enhancement, and management of Bolsover District's tree and woodland assets. By building on tangible, measurable goals, the strategy seeks to ensure that future efforts are directed toward making the vision a reality, and supporting an environment that benefits trees and woodlands and the local community, whilst making the whole of Bolsover District more climate resilient.
In order to achieve this, this document presents a structured delivery plan under three core themes:
- Taking care of our existing Trees and Woodlands
- Expanding our Tree and Woodland Coverage
- Fostering Community Pride in our Trees and Woodlands
The development of this Strategy has to date involved a number of workshops and consultations with internal groups and external stakeholders. This vision is the result of early workshops to understand how Bolsover District's urban forest is perceived, how those involved want to see it improve, and what the future for the District's urban forest could look like. The vision aims to reflect the language and emotion of the early conversations to help shape this document into something unique for Bolsover.
Targets under each core theme are structured around a comprehensive set of key performance indicators (KPI's), informed by the current state of evidence and best practice. For each of these performance indicators, an assessment of the current situation is made, ambitions are laid out, and specific actions are defined. Targets are prioritised against one another to provide a structured pathway for future development and allow for the management and allocation of resources over the lifetime of this document.
The strategy covers a 10 year period between 2025 - 2035, and will be reviewed and updated periodically to facilitate the delivery of the targets and actions, and to track progress in line with the KPI's.
Tree and Woodland Strategy Questionnaire
