Issue - meetings

Report of Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Regeneration and Planning

Lead Cabinet member: Councillor Jonathan Dow

(Key decision):

(1) To approve the ‘Eastbourne Carbon Neutral 2030: The Climate Emergency Strategy and Action Plan’ for publication

(2) To approve the ‘Eastbourne Carbon Neutral 2030: A Plan for Action’ summary document for publication

(3) To require the Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Planning and Regeneration to produce an annual progress report detailing the council and borough carbon footprints, and progress against the action plan in September each year.

The Cabinet considered the report of the Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Regeneration and Planning, seeking their agreement to the strategy and action plan to deliver Eastbourne Carbon Neutral 2030.

Council activities would include decarbonising all Eastbourne Homes housing stock by 2030; decarbonising council vehicles by this date; buying renewable electricity and reducing its energy consumption; tree planting and nature projects, and undertaking a public consultation to engage residents in recycling more and producing less waste.

The Cabinet would receive an annual progress report detailing the council and borough carbon footprints.

Thanks were conveyed to Jo Harper, Head of Business Planning and Performance and Kate Richardson,Strategy and Partnership Lead (Sustainability) for their work throughout. The Cabinet also expressed their thanks to the Eco Action Network, cross-party Climate Change Strategic Panel and everyone else involved in the work set out in the report.

Scrutiny Committee considered the report at its meeting on 2 November 2020 and were supportive of the officer recommendations, subject to amendments. These were published as a supplement and considered by Cabinet during their discussions.

Following discussions, Cabinet unanimously agreed to the officer recommendations as originally set out in the report.

Resolved (Key decision):

(1) To approve the ‘Eastbourne Carbon Neutral 2030: The Climate Emergency Strategy and Action Plan’ for publication

(2) To approve the ‘Eastbourne Carbon Neutral 2030: A Plan for Action’ summary document for publication

(3) To require the Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Planning and Regeneration to produce an annual progress report detailing the council and borough carbon footprints, and progress against the action plan in September each year.

Reason for decisions:

To progress towards the aims of achieving Eastbourne Carbon Neutral 2030 as resolved in July 2019.