URL: https://doncaster.moderngov.co.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?ID=3772

Decision Maker: Executive Director Policy, Partnership and Investment

Outcome: Recommendations Approved

Is Key Decision?: No

Is Callable In?: No

Purpose: The Environment & Sustainability Strategy seeks to deliver a series of outcomes from carbon reduction to nature protection and recovery. Following extensive wildfires on Hatfield Moors in May 2020 that caused significant damage to habitat and a loss of peat carbon, partnership discussions reflected on the greater need to protect our peatland assets in the light of climate change, not only to protect the nationally important store of peat carbon and prevent it becoming a carbon source, but also to conserve biodiversity in a warming climate. Intervention was needed at a landscape scale that integrated the present and future needs of a wider range of interests. As a result, the Council is now leading a multi-agency partnership to prepare a nomination to UNESCO for Biosphere Reserve status for Doncaster & Humberhead Levels.

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Date of Decision: June 24, 2026