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Gloucester City Council Gloucester City Council COMMITTEE : GLT CABINET BRIEFING CABINET DATE : 7th DECEMBER 2010 19TH JANUARY 2011 2ND FEBRUARY 2011 SUBJECT : FUTURE OF THE COUNTRYSIDE UNIT DECISION TYPE : FOR INFORMATION WARD : ALL REPORT BY : CABINET MEMBER FOR HERITAGE AND LEISURE NO. OF APPENDICES : NONE REFERENCE NO. : SNR2010_22 1.0 PURPOSE OF REPORT 1.1 To inform members of progress to date regarding the review of the Countryside Unit, and to seek support for a series of measures to realise savings whilst ensuring that the Council’s statutory obligations are met. 2.0 RECOMMENDATIONS 2.1 That Cabinet recognises that: a) the Council no longer directly provides public access to, and interaction with, farm animals b) management of the Countryside unit will pass to the green team within the Regeneration Directorate, building on the existing expertise within that service with regard to ecology and nature conservation, and in particular access to sources of external funding for such work. c) the site of the existing farm buildings at Robinswood will be disposed of in accordance with the Council’s asset management strategy and constitutional provisions. d) it is intended that a small proportion of the receipt will be used to refurbish the existing ranger centre at Robinswood Hill (adjacent premises currently leased to the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust - GWT). e) subject to agreement of a suitable lease, the GWT will move into the ranger centre in addition to their existing premises and share these facilities with the Countryside Unit. f) large equipment and emergency cattle cover will be relocated to Netheridge Farm (the Barn Owl Centre), funded by a small proportion of the capital receipt for the farm. SNR2010_22 1 g) detailed discussions will be entered into with Quedgeley Parish Council (QPC) on the future management of Quedgeley Arboretum and the 2 small areas of woodland currently managed by the Countryside Unit. h) further review of the service will be carried out with a view to generating savings, including consideration of partnership working with other organisations, reducing the provision of onsite staff cover, and the potential for delivery of grounds maintenance type work by the streetcare partner. i) the potential for income generation from car parking charges, as identified in the Three Year Money Plan, will be pursued by officers within the green team and parking services. 3.0 BACKGROUND 3.1 The Three Year Money Plan approved by Council in November 2010 proposes four separate savings items relevant to the Countryside Unit. 3.1.1 City Farm - £30k 3.1.2 Robinswood Hill Car Parking - £60k 3.1.3 Countryside Unit Review – £40k 3.1.4 Further Review of Countryside Unit - £60k 3.2 There are significant challenges in realising this level of savings and that a phased approach is appropriate. 3.3 Following the planned transfer of the City Farm to a charitable organisation (agreed at Cabinet in November 2010), and associated downsizing of the livestock herd, the main work stream of the unit is the management of large areas of countryside as nature reserves or country park for the benefit of public access, recreation, biodiversity and landscape. 3.4 There are four main holdings managed by the unit. Robinswood hill, at 225 acres, is a huge asset and is managed as a mixed habitat consisting of Woodland, grassland and scrub, it is designated a Local Nature Reserve. The quarry on the hill is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). 3.5 Hucclecote hay meadow is a small reserve (10 acres) adjacent to the M5 in Abbeymead. It is an SSSI and is managed by grazing cattle with occasional hay cuts. It is designated for its floristic diversity and as a remnant of a once common feature of the Severn Vale. 3.6 Alney Island is the large wetland to the immediate west of the city centre (150 acres). These are active flood meadows whose openness is fundamental to flood management in the city (flood flow over the island has to be unrestricted to prevent displacement into the city in times of spate). It is currently grazed by cattle and when conditions are appropriate a hay cut is taken. Significant improvements to the habitat and flood flow have been made over the past few years paid for primarily by developer contributions. It is a Local Nature Reserve. SNR2010_22 2 3.7 Quedgeley Arboretum and associated woodlands, are small pockets of woodland within Quedgeley Parish, which Quedgeley has developed around. The arboretum is a Local Nature Reserve which requires small-scale woodland management. 3.8 The Countryside Unit also carries out miscellaneous other work, including the removal of abandoned cars on Council owned land, participation in community clean up days, and guided educational walks. 3.9 Under the Natural Environmental and Rural Communities Act 2006 (NERC) the City Council must ‘have regard to the purpose of conservation of biological diversity in the exercise of its functions’. Any future proposals for the management of these areas should be mindful of this requirement and not result in a significant reduction in their nature conservation value. 3.10 It is a criminal offence not to manage any Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in an appropriate manner. For the quarry at Robinswood this means that the face and its geological information needs to be kept exposed, for Hucclecote Hay Meadows a regular hay cut coupled with grazing is required. 4.0 PROGRESS 4.1 Proposals to transfer the City Farm to a charitable organisation were agreed at Cabinet in November and work is ongoing to progress this. 4.2 The potential for outsourcing the remainder of the service has been investigated, and proposals from Enterprise assessed. Whilst there is scope for a variation to the streetcare partnering to include elements of the work of the Countryside unit, the conservation work, and particularly the requirement to manage grazing animals, is not a good fit for the streetcare contract. 4.3 Officers have also been in discussion with Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, The National Trust, and Gloucestershire County Council with a view to exploring outsourcing, asset transfer or shared services. 4.4 Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust expressed a strong interest in maintaining and developing an enhanced presence on Robinswood Hill, and on working more closely with the City Council. However, GWT are not equipped to take on the Countryside Unit operation. 4.5 The National Trust have expressed a strong interest in acquiring a presence in the City, and showed particular interest in Robinswood Hill. However, the NT indicated that they would not be looking to move forward with any proposal within the next two years. Officers have agreed to maintain a dialogue with the NT, and indicated that the Council would be amenable to exploring opportunities when they arise. 4.6 Gloucestershire County Council have also showed an interest in partnership working or shared service with Gloucester and other districts. The County operate a small countryside unit with two full time members of staff. Further work is required to explore the potential for efficiencies that a shared service could generate. 4.7 To achieve a level of conservation activity in line with NERC requirements and SSSI standards (and to qualify for funding from agri-environment schemes) a basic herd of cattle plus a small number of goats for the quarry is required. SNR2010_22 3 4.8 Maintaining the service in house could be achieved with a senior ranger and two junior rangers, with strategic management provided by the Green Team Manager. This is currently considered to be the minimum to enable stock management, safety for staff and visitors and to still allow the Council to qualify for agri-environment grant schemes. A further review will be carried out with a view to challenging the levels of staffing in particular. 4.9 This proposal generates a saving from deletion of a single post within the Countryside Unit, with additional income from other sources. Measures to implement the proposal are currently being carried out under the relevant delegated powers. Further detail, including an outline of costs, is summarized below. 4.10 Management responsibility Line management and strategic direction will be provided by the team leader of the City Councils Green Team. The team already supports a countryside manager managing the Severnside Project (this works on privately owned land in the area between the Sharpness Canal and the Severn and is predominantly externally funded). There is therefore a degree of synergy with the work of the 2 teams – indeed there is already a significant overlap with the Green team being responsible for many of the successful grant aid bids that the Countryside unit has received over the years. It has also been responsible for a significant amount of developer contributions negotiated to deliver the units outcomes especially on Alney Island. 4.11 Accommodation The farmhouse, agricultural buildings and land at Robinswood Hill Farm will be surplus to requirements, and appropriately disposed of. This will leave the rangers with the requirement for an outstation facility. For some time GWT have expressed an interest in renting the old ranger centre next to their headquarters on Robinswood Hill (currently used for informal storage) from the City Council. However, difficulties have arisen due to the poor condition of the building. It is proposed therefore, that with a small percentage of the capital receipt from the sale of the farm buildings the ranger centre is brought back into productive use, and used jointly by the rangers and GWT. Although no detailed figures have been calculated it is estimated that this will be somewhere in the region of £30k. This sum will over time be recouped through rent charged to the wildlife trust.
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