Regional Environment Strategy

Our Environment Our Future– The Regional Strategy for the South West Environment

Our Environment Our Future Executive Summary

Our Environment Our Future – The Regional Strategy for the South West Environment sets out what is important about our region ’s environment.

It aims to:

• provide a Vision and Aims for the environment in the future;
• identify pressures threatening the environment;
• identify key issues to be tackled.

A separate Implementation Plan outlines priority actions required to deliver the Strategy by 2014.

The development of this Strategy is obviously only the beginning. The Regional Assembly and delivery organisations will then need to work with partners to implement the actions agreed, and monitor delivery of the Strategy.

The Regional Assembly will produce a short report annually which will assess delivery of outcomes in relation to the targets and indicators set out in the Strategy; and monitoring delivery of the actions identified in the implementation plan. This will be set within the context of the State of the Environment report produced by the environment module of the South West Observatory www.swenvo.org.uk. A formal review of the Strategy will be undertaken on a three-yearly basis.

The first Progress Report on delivery of the Strategy was published in 2005.

The second Progress Reportwas published in 2006.

If it is to be successful, the Strategy requires close partnership working between a wide range of organisations in the South West. Already, detailed work has been carried out by a number of Partnerships to help take forward the Strategy. These include:
• A Strategy for the Historic Environment of the SW – produced by the SW Historic Environment Forum
• SW Biodiversity Action Plan – produced by the SW Regional Biodiversity Partnership
• A Prospectus for Protected Landscapes in the SW – produced by the SW Protected Landscapes Forum