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Further In<strong>for</strong>mation<br />

If you have questions about the Regional Environment Strategy, or would like to find out<br />

more about how the region is moving towards a more <strong>sustainable</strong> <strong>future</strong>, please contact:<br />

Clare Hardy<br />

Policy & Communications Officer<br />

East of England Regional Assembly<br />

Flempton House<br />

Flempton<br />

Bury St. Edmonds<br />

Suffolk<br />

IP28 6EG<br />

e-mail: clare.hardy@eelgc.gov.uk<br />

This document was edited and designed <strong>for</strong> the Joint Working Group by<br />

Land Use Consultants, 43 Chalton Street, London, NW1 1JD<br />

Printed in the East of England on Recycled Paper by Gildenburgh Ltd<br />

July 2003<br />

FOREWORD<br />

This first Environment Strategy <strong>for</strong> the East of England region catalogues and celebrates<br />

the many diverse environmental assets which will have a crucial bearing on the continued<br />

economic and social development of the Region.<br />

This Strategy will complement the other regional strategies within the Regional Assembly’s<br />

family of ‘Integrated Regional Strategies’. It deliberately makes key linkages between the<br />

environmental assets of the region, and economic development and social inclusion.<br />

The delivery of the Strategy will be the responsibility of Government, local authorities and<br />

other public and private sector bodies, and the voluntary sector. Crucially, everyone who<br />

lives and works in the East of England and values the region as a diverse natural and built<br />

landscape, is an important stakeholder.<br />

The very act of producing the Strategy has raised many issues, challenges and missing<br />

linkages. We hope above all that the Strategy will assist <strong>our</strong> regional partners in focussing<br />

environmental consciousness at the <strong>for</strong>efront of other strands of public policy making.<br />

It is intended that <strong>future</strong> annual monitoring of the Strategy will measure progress in<br />

delivery against the many <strong>action</strong> points it sets out, and will provide an all important<br />

contextual background against which individual local and regional decisions will be made.<br />

Above all, the many organisations which have contributed to the production of this<br />

Strategy, (whose assistance we gratefully acknowledge), hope that its publication will<br />

enc<strong>our</strong>age widespread public debate. ‘Our Environment’ and the quality of life we value<br />

so much in <strong>our</strong> region is truly ‘Our Future.’<br />

John Kent<br />

Chair<br />

East of England Regional Assembly<br />

Simon Garnier<br />

Chair<br />

East of England Environment Forum<br />

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