(a)        To receive announcements from the Lord Mayor, Chief Executive, Director for Corporate Services or Assistant Director for Law, Democracy and Governance;

(b)        To receive announcements from the Leader, Cabinet Members or Committee Chairs.

Councillor Vincent (Cabinet Member for Environment) reported that the Core Strategy had provided the Council with a target to designate 100 hectares of land as new local nature reserves by 2016. To date the Council had designated 123.4 hectares and following agreement with Natural England, a report would be submitted to Cabinet on 25 March 2014 to designate a further 75 hectares bringing the total in the city to 255 hectares.  Cabinet would be asked to designate two new local nature reserves at Ham Woods and Radford Woods and to extend the Efford Local Nature Reserve.