Issue - meetings

To seek approval for the adoption of a Joint Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan for Bromsgrove District and Redditch Borough Councils.

(Report and Appendices to Committee members attached.  Appendices also available on the website and in Group Rooms.)

RESOLVED that

1)                 the report be noted;

2)                 an annual report be made to the Executive Committee on energy savings, linking into the budget building process; and

RECOMMENDED that

3)                 the Climate Change Strategy, as attached at Appendix 1 of the report, be adopted;

4)                 100% of the savings from the Salix project be reinvested into further climate change work; and

5)                 a policy be approved for insertion in both the Planning Core Strategy and Climate Change Strategy whereby:  “for any new developments that the Council undertakes, for example when building a new public leisure centre, consideration of whole life costs of the building are considered and, as part of this, all new public buildings should aim to exceed the nationally set BREEAM standard.”

(An amendment to the recommendations was proposed, seconded and defeated.)

Prior to consideration of the report the Committee congratulated the Climate Change Manager on gaining a Master of Science degree in Climate Change.

Members considered a Joint Climate Change Strategy for Bromsgrove District and Redditch Borough Councils that set out the policy framework in which both Councils would meet their corporate objective of tackling climate change. 

Members were informed that the strategy also set out the strategic direction that would be required to meet targets on reducing carbon emissions internally, across the wider community, and how the Councils could adapt to severe weather events and future climatic change.

An amendment to the recommendations was proposed, seconded and defeated.

RESOLVED that

1)                 the report be noted;

2)                 an annual report be made to the Executive Committee on energy savings, linking into the budget building process; and

RECOMMENDED that

3)                 the Climate Change Strategy, as attached at Appendix 1 of the report, be adopted;

4)                 100% of the savings from the Salix project be reinvested into further climate change work; and

5)                 a policy be approved for insertion in both the Planning Core Strategy and Climate Change Strategy whereby:  “for any new developments that the Council undertakes, for example when building a new public leisure centre, consideration of whole life costs of the building are considered and, as part of this, all new public buildings should aim to exceed the nationally set Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) standard.”