(i)         that the risk and cost of Ash Dieback is managed via a phased and triaged approach and the Director of Corporate Services be requested to allocate £200,000 from the Insurance Reserve, so as to mitigate the risk to the public and third party property and ensure that Torbay Council is not subject to legal claims and likely prosecution; and

(ii)        that the Interim Director of Place be requested to ensure that when reviewing the Council’s Tree Risk Management Strategy, a specific section is included on Ash Dieback and other emerging biological threats due to climate change, and that it includes a plan of how the Council can work towards further mitigating the loss of trees and what processes are available to replenish lost tree stocks going forward, also that when reviewing the Council’s Climate Change Strategy links with the revised Tree Risk Management Strategy and carbon capture be included within the document.