Council chiefs have outlined their intentions of turning Gedling into a greener borough.
Gedling Borough Council say they have ambitious plans to achieve net-zero emissions by 2030 after declaring a climate emergency back in 2019.
To make this possible they have now launched The Carbon Management Strategy which contains actionsto reduce the carbon footprint of the borough and help tackle climate change.
The new plan has six key areas where the council, residents and businesses can do something to reduce emissions levels. Those key areas are in home building, transport, energy generation, behavioural change, waste reduction and recycling and improving infrastructure to offset carbon.
Gedling Borough Council will now hold a consultation on the ambitious plans.
The consultation will run until next month and residents and businesses are invited to have their say by visiting: www.gedling.gov.uk/climate-change where the full strategy and action plan can be viewed.
Leader of Gedling Borough Council, Councillor John Clarke said: “We are very proud to announce our plans on how we will become net zero by 2030.
“During a week where leaders from across the world are taking part in COP26, here at Gedling we are asking our residents to give us their views on our proposals to reduce carbon emissions in our borough over the next 10 years.
“This is a significant moment where actions will speak for themselves and we have over 100 actions that we believe will make a real impact but we need our residents and businesses to have their say on the strategy.
“If we are going to meet the targets we need everyone to play their part, this is our moment to do something that will leave a legacy for our future generations.
“Let’s work together and make Gedling a greener Gedling.”
What do the council plan to do?
Within the strategy, there are over 100 actions that the council will aim to achieve over the next few years. These include the following:
- Work with housing developers to achieve sustainable constructions
- Increase the number of electric vehicles used by the council and encourage more people to reduce journeys in cars and use bio-gas public transport
- Promote environmentally sustainable behaviour borough wide
- Increase recycling and reduce waste going to incinerators
- Plant more trees and create a Green Lung extension to Gedling Country Park
- Appoint a Climate Change Officer
What has been achieved so far?
The council has already carried out a number of things to help reduce its carbon footprint, this includes:
- Installed LED lighting and energy efficient windows in the civic centre
- Installed 15 EV charging points across the borough with more planned
- Installed solar panels at several council owned buildings
- Created a solar park at Gedling Country Park that provides renewable energy to over 1,500 properties
- Planted over 1,000 new trees across the borough last year and plans are in place for over 1,000 more including a new memorial woodland
- Created pollination zones to encourage bio-diversity and banned the use of glyphosate in our parks
- Run the eco-stars fleet scheme, which aims to reduce vehicle pollution.
- We became a Plastic Clever Council and removed single use plastics from several council owned sites.
Fancy planting a tree in a mud bath for goodness sake. Clearly Gedling’s expertise is in cutting down trees, not planting them.
Planting a tree in the mud in expensive leather shoes. Well one of them, the other has more sense. Btw, anyone who used this area to walk their dog before the so called country park was built will know it was better back then without a hundred busibodies interfering with the site