Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved (subject to call-in)
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Decision:
1) That the
Food Strategy for Torbay for 2025 – 2030 be endorsed;
2)
That the Director of Public Health and the Partnerships and
Inclusion Manager be instructed to develop a food action plan for
Torbay Council to deliver against the aims of the Strategy and
present it to the Cabinet for approval within three months.
Reasons for the decision:
Adoption of a five-year Food Strategy for Torbay, would help to
ensure a strategic and focused approach to promoting positive
change within our food system locally and would support the future
resilience of communities.
Alternative options considered:
To not progress with a
food strategy. This was not deemed to
be a sustainable or suitable option. The scale and complexity of challenges within our
local and national food system were significant, and therefore they
would require a more strategic, joined-up approach to address them
in any meaningful way. Many
interventions needed were not within our gift locally, but those
which were, would require longer to implement.
Implementation:
This decision will
come into force and may be implemented on 5 February 2025 unless
the call-in procedure is triggered (as set out in the Standing
Orders in relation to Overview and Scrutiny).
Information:
Since
2023, the Torbay Food Partnership had been hosted by Local Motion,
Torbay, which was facilitated by Torbay Communities. This had been a positive, neutral space for
collaboration, connecting different departments and sectors to
amplify work already underway and think creatively about the
future.
In 2024, the Torbay
Food Partnership took its next development step and became a member
of the Sustainable Food Places (SFP) network – a
national partnership programme led by the Soil
Association, Food Matters, and Sustain: the alliance for
better food and farming.
The Torbay Food
Partnership had developed a Food Strategy for Torbay which aimed to
set out the blueprint for the approach to sustainable food systems
change in Torbay. The Strategy set out
a vision for the Torbay food system which could be used for the
purposes of engagement, awareness, and influence across all aspects
of the community.
At the meeting
Councillor Tranter proposed and Councillor Tyerman seconded a
motion that was agreed unanimously by the Cabinet, as set out
above.
Interests and Nature of Interests Declared:
Publication date: 28/01/2025
Date of decision: 23/01/2025
Date comes into force if not called in: 05/02/2025
Call-in deadline date: 04/02/2025
Current call-in Count: 0
