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.)