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Contact Details

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  London Borough of Bexley
  Highways and Amenities Department
  Crayford Town Hall
  112 Crayford Road
  Crayford
  Kent DA1 4ER
• 020 8303 7777

Parks Strategy

The Council's aims and objectives

Environment

Aim

• To conserve and enhance the natural environment and ecological balance in parks

Objectives

• Conserve and enhance the natural environment
• Implement the Environment Strategy, including Local Agenda 21
• Seek to increase and protect the diversity and quantity of flora and fauna
• Implement the Tree and Woodlands Strategy
• Contribute to the development of a Biodiversity Action Plan which includes the declaration and management of local nature reserves
• Extend Countryside Management Schemes
• Encourage and support voluntary conservation schemes
• respond rapidly to environmental threats

Actions

• Contribute to, support and implement Bexley's Biodiversity Action Plan
• Ensure individual Park Management Plans incorporate proposals in line with Bexley's Local Biodiversity Action Plan
• Endeavour to undertake an annual programme of tree-planting in parks and open spaces
• Identify two potential local nature reserve sites in 1999
• Submit new applications for Countryside Stewardship funds
• Foster volunteer conservation programmes and projects
• Review and, if required, strengthen environmental monitoring procedures