Council declares Climate Emergency
Broadclyst Parish Council resolved on 1st July 2019 to acknowledge that we must play our part in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
We intend to publicise measures to reduce GHG emissions; to use the Neighbourhood Plan to encourage new developments to include GHG emissions reductions measures; to reduce GHG emissions from our own activities, and to support initiatives within the parish to reduce GHG emissions and to sequestrate carbon.”
The Council further resolved to support low and net zero carbon emissions as a condition of planning consent within the Broadclyst Neighbourhood Plan, and resolved to appoint a “task and finish” group with two aims: firstly, to identify how the parish council can reduce GHG emissions from its own activities; secondly, to identify ways in which the parish council can support initiatives by residents and businesses in the parish to reduce GHG emissions. This support could be through publicity, through sourcing of grants, or even through direct funding.