Environmental Forum - 9 March 2022

NOTICE AND AGENDA

For a virtual meeting to be held on Wednesday 9 March 2022 at 7.30pm.

Councillors Jon Tankard (Chairman), Donna Duncan, Paula Hiscocks, Raj Khiroya, Stephen King, Chris Lloyd, Alex Michaels, Alex Turner, Alison Wall, Phil Williams and one representative from each of the following organisations:

Abbots Langley Parish Council      -      Parish Councillors Jon Tankard/Jane Lay

Batchworth Community Council      -      Cllrs Andrea Fraser/Stephen Mander/Craige Coren

Chorleywood Parish Council      -      Parish Councillor Tony Edwards

Croxley Green Parish Council      -      Parish Councillor Naz Panju

Sarratt Parish Council      -      Parish Councillor Flora Garvey

Watford Rural Parish Council      -      Parish Councillor Angela Arnold

Affinity Water      -      Sophie Mortimer

Bedmond Residents’ Association      -      Jan Smith

Chorleywood Residents’ Association      -      Jon Bishop/Angela Killick

Colne Valley Fisheries Consultative      -      Tony Booker

Colne Valley Regional Park       - Stewart Pomeroy

Countryside & Rights of Way      -      Tony Bradford

Eastbury Residents’ Association      -      Neelima Payne

Education for a Sustainable Future      -      Bob Sherren

Farming Community      -      Sally Findlay

Friends of Chorleywood House Estate      -      Andrew York/Tim Venner

Friends of Chorleywood Common      -      Michael Hyde

Friends of Croxley Common Moor      -      Graham Everett

Friends of Stocker’s Lake      -      Russell Ball

Hertfordshire Moth Group      -      Andy King

Herts Ecology      -      Martin Hicks

Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust      -      Matt Dodds/Tim Hill

Maple Cross & West Hyde Residents Assoc.      -      Carolyn Weston

Maple Lodge Conservation Society      -      Keith Pursall

Ornithologist      -      Graham Clark

Rickmansworth Waterways Trust      -      David Montague

Rickmansworth & District Residents’ Assoc.      -      Michael Stimpson/Ash Pattni

Soil Association      -      Rose Lewis

Spokes (South West Herts Cycling Group)      -      Roger Bangs

Sustainable Three Rivers      -      Rosi Jordon/Annabel Foley

Watford & Three Rivers Friends of the Earth      -

Graham Everett/Anna Addison

Joanne Wagstaffe, Chief Executive

1 March 2022

The virtual meeting protocol for the Environmental Forum can be seen here

1. APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

2.

NOTES

(a) To receive the Notes of the Meeting of the Environmental Forum held on Wednesday 3rd November 2021.

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

3. HS2 by Duncan Fallon and Lauren Dell from Align JV

Progress update and overview of environmental mitigation at HS2’s Chiltern Tunnel South Portal and Colne Valley Viaduct construction sites.

4. An update on Three Rivers Climate Change and Sustainability Strategy by Joanna Hewitson and Elen Roberts.

An update and overview of what the Council has achieved since declaring a Climate Emergency.

5.  MISUSE OF NATURE RESERVES

6. MEMBERS’ INFORMATION EXCHANGE

News, Issues and Environmental Progress Reports.

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

Questions, including those to the guest speaker, to be submitted in advance where possible to  committeeteam@threerivers.gov.uk

If any member wishes to speak at the meeting, please advise Elen Roberts on 01923 776611 or e-mail  elen.roberts@threerivers.gov.uk  or the Chairman in advance of the meeting.

8. SPEAKERS FOR FUTURE MEETINGS

9. NEXT MEETING

Wednesday 8 June 2022

To participate in the meeting, please register at

https://my.threerivers.gov.uk/MyServices  and select

‘All other Services’ and ‘Environmental Forum Registration’ or contact committeeteam@threerivers.gov.uk  for a link.

General Enquiries:  Please contact the Committee Team

committeeteam@threerivers.gov.uk