Download 14-02-18-Sustainable-Development-Progress-Appendix-B

Appendix B
Community
Strategy
2011/21
Corporate Plan
2014//17
Improvement
Objectives
Local
Development
Plan (draft)
Carbon
Management
Plan
Local Flood
Risk
Management
Strategy (draft)
Sustainable
Development
Charter
Green Dragon
SD Working
Group
Risk
Management
Group
One of the ten
priority outcomes
is ‘Vale
residents and
organisations
respect the
local
environment
and work
together to
meet the
challenge of
climate
change’.
Activities
included in the
strategy are
around
awareness
raising, waste
management,
flood
management,
reducing energy
use, the natural
environment and
transport.
The environment is
one of the eight
priorities in the
Corporate Plan.
There are a
number of activities
identified to
achieve the
outcome - ’Current
and future
generations of
Vale residents
and visitors enjoy
the built and
natural
environments of
the Vale of
Glamorgan and
actively protect
and maintain
them.’
Activities include
waste
management, flood
management, tree
management,
carbon
management.
One of the
Improvement
Objectives for
2013/14 is ‘To
tackle the effects
of climate
change with a
particular focus
on local flood
and coastal risk
management.’
The Local
Development
Plan will provide
a framework to
shape
development and
promote
sustainable
growth.
The plan sets out
how the Council
will reduce its
carbon
emissions by
20% from 2008
to 2016. A
carbon
management
group oversees
the delivery of
the plan and
salix funding is
utilised to fund
projects and
achieve financial
and energy
savings.
The strategy
considers how
various activities
can assist in
managing flood
risk, including
better planning
policy to ensure
new
development
does not
increase flood
risk, efficient
management of
surrounding
landscape to
reduce flooding
at source and to
ensure
emergency
responses are
targeted where
flood risk is
greatest.
The Council signed
the Charter in 2010
and has
participated in
sharing best
practice and
network events.
The current
challenge is to
build on the work
already undertaken
to improve carbon
management and
consolidate our
achievements. To
develop a more
strategic approach
to reducing carbon
emissions, focusing
on areas where the
most savings can
be made.
All services have
an Environmental
Management
System in place
and are audited
annually to
maintain a level of
the Green Dragon.
Levels held by
services in the
Council range from
level two to level
five.
The role of the
Sustainable
Development
Working
Group
(SDWG) is to to
embed
sustainable
development
as
the
Council’s
central organising
principle.
The group reports
to the Corporate
Management
Team as well as
producing an
annual progress
report to scrutiny.
SDWG oversees
work on Green
Dragon, climate
change, carbon
management and
the Travel Plan.
Climate Change
has been
identified as one
of the Council’s
ten most
significant risks.
Huw Isaac is the
lead officer for
the risk and also
chairs the
SDWG. The risk
is ‘Failure to
adapt to the
impact of
climate change
and failure to
mitigate climate
change in the
Vale of
Glamorgan’