Contact your Parish Council
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Action |
Responsible Officer |
Timescale |
Status |
RAG |
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1.0 |
Transport |
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1.1 |
Draft Local Plan to: · Establish policies that enable the infrastructure required for low carbon vehicles · Ensure policies encourage and enable development proposals which give priority first to pedestrian and cycle movements, both within the scheme and with its surrounding areas; and second to facilitating high quality public transport connectivity. |
Mark Egerton |
2020-22 |
Started |
Green |
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1.2 |
Work with KCC to develop Maidstone Integrated Transport Strategy, and Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan, as part of the Local Plan review to promote and support a modal shift to walking, cycling, public transport, and electric vehicles |
Mark Egerton |
2020-22 |
Started |
Green |
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1.3 |
Produce a business case for the introduction of a workplace parking levy to fund active travel or public transport |
Biodiversity and Climate Change Officer |
2024 |
Not due to start |
Green |
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1.4 |
Develop a travel plan for council staff that sets out objectives and an action plan to encourage the shift to electric and ultra-low emission vehicles, more working from home, more sustainable travel patterns and an increase in the use of public transport and active transport modes through: · parking management on council premises · discounted public transport fares · pool cars · audio and video conferencing · car-sharing · electric bikes · remote and home working · promoting fuel efficient driving techniques to all staff Update travel expenses policies generally and avoid any perverse incentives. Update before any moves to new premises. Include any learning from working practices that changed due to COVID-19. |
Georgia Hawkes, |
2021 |
Started |
Green |
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1.5 |
Develop policies and increase remote working to reduce travelling to work and office energy needs, without a reduction in outputs or access to services. Uses any learning from new working practices adopted due to COVID 19 responses. |
Georgia Hawkes, Bal Sandher, |
2021 |
Started |
Green |
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1.6 |
Influence design and specification
of any new office building to ensure infrastructure enables EVs and |
Georgia Hawkes, |
2020 to when any new building completed |
Not started |
Amber |
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1.7 |
Have regard to the Kent and Medway Energy and Low Emissions Strategy and its emerging policies relating to electric vehicles. Liaise with KCC, district network operators and other relevant partners. Seek grant and other forms of funding to support this. Seek and take opportunities to provide one or more charging hub. |
John Littlemore, |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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1.8 |
Use advice from the Energy Saving Trust (EST) Local Authority Transport Service to facilitate a move to electric taxis. Liaise with relevant partners to monitor use and ensure infrastructure is provided appropriately. |
John Littlemore |
2021-2030 |
Not Started |
Amber |
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1.9 |
Draft new licensing policy to reduce number of taxis using fossil fuel by more than 90% by 2030 and by 100% by 2036 |
John Littlemore |
2021 |
Started but stalled |
Red |
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1.10 |
Promote workplace vehicle chargers (and current government Workplace Charging Scheme) |
Chris Inwood |
2020 until scheme ends |
Started |
Green |
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1.11 |
Promote ECO stars recognition scheme to fleet operators |
Chris Inwood |
2020 until scheme ends |
Not Started |
Amber |
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1.12 |
Work with KCC to gather baseline data on the buses operating in the borough and their Euro classification. Support operators to develop their commercial networks in the borough, ensuring that the borough’s infrastructure is bus friendly. Work with the Quality Bus Partnership to identify actions to support bus companies to switch to clean technology. |
Duncan Haynes |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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2.0 |
Transport |
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2.1 |
Support Kent County Council to explore the potential for Combined Heat and Power systems and District Heating scheme developments across the community |
Rob Jarman |
2020-2021 |
Started |
Green |
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2.2 |
Promote access to schemes to residents, landlords and housing associations, for retrofitting insulation to existing homes including ECO3, LA Flex and the Green Homes Grant Scheme |
Nigel Bucklow |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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2.3 |
Investigate how to support low carbon heat networks |
Mark Egerton |
2020-22 |
Started |
Green |
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2.4 |
Promote low carbon heating including government domestic and non-domestic renewable heat incentive scheme and any other suitable schemes |
Biodiversity and Climate Change Officer |
2020 to scheme end |
Started |
Green |
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2.5 |
Enforce Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) Regulations 2015
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Nigel Bucklow |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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2.6 |
Promote water efficiency to residents in partnership with South East Water |
Biodiversity and Climate Change Officer |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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3.0 |
Generate Renewable energy |
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3.1 |
Use Local Plan review to investigate how to encourage on-site renewables on all types of new developments |
Mark Egerton |
2020-22 |
Started |
Green |
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3.2 |
Support residents, businesses and third sector to install renewable energy generation by providing information and promoting grants and savings schemes |
Biodiversity and Climate Change Officer |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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3.3 |
Encourage and support community energy projects. Assess viability of these for carbon offsetting |
Biodiversity and Climate Change Officer |
2020-30 |
Not started |
Amber |
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4.0 |
Reducing waste and energy spent processing waste.
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4.1 |
Increase percentage of waste re-used recycled/composted by; · Encouraging residents to separate food and recyclables (particularly metals and textiles), use appropriate bins and avoid contamination. · Reviewing, and where possible, improving recycling facilities for flats and those with communal collections · Waste and recycling guidance with as much planning weight as possible to be adopted for all new developments. · Assess feasibility of weekly recycling collections |
Graham Gosden |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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4.2 |
Create and implement a plan to ensure all types of waste are processed in or as close to the borough as possible |
Graham Gosden |
2021-23 |
Started |
Green |
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4.3 |
Introduce recycling into the street cleansing service including offering community litter picks the opportunity to recycle the waste they collect |
John Edwards |
2022-22 |
Started |
Green |
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4.4 |
Reduce fly-tipping |
John Edwards |
2020-25 |
Started |
Green |
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4.5 |
Investigate options to encourage home composting and using an anaerobic digester to process the domestic food waste collected. |
Graham Gosden
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2021-22 |
Started |
Green |
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5.0 |
Adapting to climate change
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5.1 |
Provide policy on climate change adaptation in Local Plan review, including consideration of flooding, heat and drought. |
Mark Egerton |
2020-22 |
Started |
Green |
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5.2 |
Ensure Local Plan review considers level of current and future flood risk and developments are planned accordingly. |
Mark Egerton |
2020-22 |
Started |
Green |
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5.3 |
Use Severe Weather Impacts Monitoring System (SWIMS) to understand impacts of severe weather in borough. Work with Kent County Council to implement actions from the Climate Change Risk and Impact Assessment in the borough.
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Uche Olufemi |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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5.4 |
Mark Green, |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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5.5 |
Work with Medway Flood Partnership to · develop a funding strategy to identify and secure additional resources for natural flood management. · build local communities’ resilience to flooding |
Mark Green, Uche Olufemi |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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5.6 |
Review our arrangements around our estate, parks and recreation facilities in severe weather situations as part of business continuity management |
Uche Olufemi |
2021 |
Started |
Green |
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5.7 |
Uche Olufemi |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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5.8 |
Support local businesses to be resilient to climate change including referring to Kent Prepared website
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Chris Inwood |
2021 |
Not Started |
Amber |
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6.0 |
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6.1 |
Draft Local Plan to; · Require biodiversity net gain within the borough. · Ensure Garden Communities are an exemplar for biodiversity and deliver semi natural open space. · Increase tree coverage and other wildlife habitats to allow biodiversity in new developments. · Ensure that sustainable urban drainage schemes maximise biodiversity potential |
Mark Egerton |
2020-2022 |
Started |
Green |
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6.2 |
Adopt Parks and Open Space Biodiversity Action Plan ensuring it is reviewed to keep up to date with latest practices. |
Andrew Williams |
2021 |
Started |
Green |
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6.3 |
Support and signpost community groups on tree planting and after care |
Biodiversity and Climate Change Officer |
2020-30 |
Not Started |
Amber |
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6.4 |
Work with Kent County Council to draft common position statement on biodiversity (including ensuring maintenance regimes which protect and enhance biodiversity) |
Mark Egerton |
2020-22 |
Started |
Green |
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6.5 |
Liaise with Kent Wildlife Trust to · promote relevant schemes to residents, schools and community groups to encourage them to enhance biodiversity in their gardens and grounds. · Provide information on habitat development and the benefits of it to nature and ecosystem services |
Biodiversity and Climate Change Officer, Andrew Williams |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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6.6 |
Work with Environment Agency, South East Rivers Trust, Kent Wildlife Trust and Medway Valley Countryside Partnership to enhance and expand wetland coverage in Borough (including removal of dams and culverts, achieving improvements to water quality and restoration of ponds, lakes, marshes, wet woodland and bogs) |
Rob Jarman, |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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6.7 |
Work with partners to develop and implement a Nature Recovery Strategy, linking habitat restoration and creation to improve flood protection and water quality |
Rob Jarman, |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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6.8 |
Rob Jarman, |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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6.9 |
Where feasible increase tree cover to 2/3 on our estate. Contribute to Kent aim to plant 1.5 million trees and aim towards national average tree cover of 16%. An emphasis on expansion and reconnection of existing woodland (including urban woods) will define this action |
Rob Jarman, Andrew Williams, |
2021 -2030 |
Started |
Green |
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6.10 |
Evaluate Council’s Go Green Go Wild work. Amend as needed and commit ongoing funds to ensure of work continues. |
Andrew Williams |
2021 |
Started |
Green |
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6.11 |
Ensure that all MBC land and property holdings and land subject to MBC maintenance interventions maximise value for biodiversity |
Andrew Williams |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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6.12 |
Audit trees on council land and create maintenance plan. |
Andrew Williams |
2021 |
Started |
Green |
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6.13 |
Review our non-operational land to assess potential for enhancing biodiversity including allowing community groups to take responsibility for management |
Lucy Stroud |
2022 |
Started |
Green |
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7.0 |
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7.1 |
Review commissioned Carbon Trust report on · energy and water efficiency measures · travel and investment in infrastructure · onsite renewable energy generation Investigate how to fund recommendations from carbon reduction report including Public Sector Energy Efficiency Loan Scheme and options for revolving loan fund to pay for renewable energy developments that payback over time. Offset the 564 tCO2e carbon our estate will emit with the Carbon Trusts report recommendations implemented |
Lucy Stroud, Darren Guess, Biodiversity and Climate Change Officer |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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7.2 |
Measure our carbon footprint each year and report findings to relevant committee |
Biodiversity and Climate Change Officer |
Annually |
Started |
Green |
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7.3 |
Buy 100% renewable energy for our buildings and operations where we control the supply |
Lucy Stroud |
As each contract expires |
Started |
Green |
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7.4 |
Work in partnership to review our portfolio to identify those homes let as temporary accommodation eligible for insulation under ECO3 funding and arrange installation. Provide top up funding for any measures not fully funded under the ECO3 to ensure all homes let as temporary accommodation are energy efficient. Investigate whether measures could be installed under the Green Homes Grant Scheme |
Nigel Bucklow |
2020-22
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Started |
Green |
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7.5 |
Incorporate energy saving principles into our office accommodation strategy. Uses any learning from new working practices adopted due to COVID19 responses. |
Georgia Hawkes |
2021-23 |
Started |
Green |
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7.6 |
Increase information held on leased buildings. Identify those with highest emissions to prioritise action. Use role as a landowner (e.g. at Lockmeadow) to ensure that Council-owned sites set a high standard for carbon reduction and demonstrate how to achieve biodiversity and combat climate change. |
Lucy Stroud |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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7.7 |
Provide LED lighting in the Maidstone Borough Council car parks that have not yet been improved |
Jeff Kitson
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2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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8.0 |
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8.1 |
Support residents to understand the changes they can make to reduce, and prepare for, climate change and enhance biodiversity including; · taking advantage of financial opportunities through energy efficiency and low-carbon energy generation measures · creating less waste and increase proportion of recycling/composting. · using less water · Buying from local businesses · Reducing red meat consumption in line with Eatwell guidance · Signing up to Environment Agency’s flood warning service · Work with KCC on joint campaigns where appropriate |
Julie Maddocks |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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8.2 |
Provide staff awareness information of biodiversity and climate change at induction, and job specific training. Each service area to have biodiversity and climate change induction, and job specific training. |
Biodiversity and Climate Change Officer |
2020-21 |
Started |
Green |
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8.3 |
Inform partner organisations and residents about the threats from climate change and the ways they and we can adapt to its impacts |
Julie Maddocks, |
2020-30 |
Not Started |
Amber |
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8.4 |
Engage with and build support from key stakeholders and the wider public on enhancing biodiversity and addressing climate change. Engage with relevant national days of action |
Julie Maddocks |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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8.5 |
Support local businesses to · use support available to reduce their emissions and generate their own power including liaising with KCC when LoCASE funding available. · Implement travel plans that promote walking, cycling and public transport. · Use the Kent Prepared website to raise awareness of how to prepare for flooding |
Julie Maddocks, Chris Inwood |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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8.6 |
Liaise with Parish Councils to support their work on biodiversity and climate change |
Biodiversity and Climate Change Officer |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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8.7 |
Work with partners to address climate change and biodiversity effectively and sustainably |
Biodiversity and Climate Change Officer |
2020-30 |
Started |
Green |
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8.8 |
Following successful legal action by Housing and Health Team regarding Category 1 Hazards of Excess cold and Building Control Team regarding buildings not built to required standard details to be sent to communications team who will draft press releases on Court cases |
Nigel Bucklow, Robert Wiseman, Julie Maddocks |
2020-30 |
No opportunity arisen yet |
Green |
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9.0 |
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9.1 |
Provide briefings and training for Councillors and Officers on climate change and biodiversity to create a culture change and ensure climate change and biodiversity are integrated into decision making |
Biodiversity and Climate Change Officer |
2020-21 |
Started |
Green |
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9.2 |
Establish biodiversity and climate change overview and scrutiny committee |
Angela Woodhouse |
2020-21 |
Completed |
Green |
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9.3 |
Ensure service plans consider biodiversity and addressing climate change and performance indicators are set as needed |
Anna Collier |
2020-21 |
Started |
Green |
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9.4 |
Review guidance used to help managers plan their services to ensure opportunities for enhancing biodiversity and mitigating and adapting to climate change are taken |
Kathryn Moore |
2020-21 |
Started |
Green |
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9.5 |
Establish criteria for investment in climate change and biodiversity and invest to save schemes. These will consider (a) relative impact in terms of carbon reduction and (b) ease of delivery, such that expenditure is focused on deliverable, affordable initiatives that maximise impact on the carbon reduction target. |
Paul Holland, Biodiversity and Climate Change Officer |
2020-21 |
Started |
Green |
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9.6 |
Develop a corporate policy and approach to social value that incorporates enhancing biodiversity and reducing the council’s carbon footprint through the way we design, carry out and procure our services.
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Ellie Dunnet |
2021 |
Started |
Green |
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