Issue - meetings

To adopt the District Carbon Action Plan and endorse its implementation through the One Teignbridge Council Strategy.

RESOLVED

That the Executive adopt the District Carbon Action Plan contained within Appendix A and endorse its implementation through the One Teignbridge Council Strategy.

The Executive considered the report to adopt the District Carbon Action Plan.

Councillor Hook introduced the item and the report, highlighting the importance of the issue of Climate Change, and the rationale behind the Carbon Action Plan. Councillor Hook highlighted that Teignbridge as a district has reduced its carbon emissions by 41% from 2005 to 2023 and the ambition to further this percentage, the majority of this (74%) coming from a reduction in emissions from energy generation.

The Council has worked in partnership to help reduce emissions and has reduced its own emissions, decarbonising its buildings, installing renewable energy sources and reducing costs, saving £120,000 a year on energy. Councillor Hook also highlighted the work to make homes more efficient and moving to electric vehicles within the Council’s fleet.

Councillor Hook thanked those partners who had been involved in this and the work of the Council’s Climate Change Officer.

Councillor Hook made reference to the upcoming Local Plan, which embeds many of the actions of the Carbon Action Plan.

The Climate Change Officer appraised the Executive of some of the detail within the plan and the relationship of the plan to the Devon wide plan.

Councillor Buscombe spoke to this item regarding ensuring that the plan continues in the process of Local Government Organisation and the role of DALC to support engagement. Officers pointed to the underpinning of the plan in the upcoming Local Plan and the role of community engagement to ensure adoption with residents and businesses in Teignbridge.

Councillors Parrott, G Taylor and Palethorpe spoke in support of the Plan and the individual actions set out for Town and Parish Councils and Elected Members; thanked the Climate Change Officer and those involved in the creation of the Plan; and made reference to the Plan as part of the Council’s Assets Strategy and Procurement policies.

The matter having been debated and the options and alternatives and other relevant factors highlighted (e.g. financial, legal and risk implications), it was PROPOSED by Councillor Hook and SECONDED by Councillor Nuttall and

RESOLVED

That the Executive adopt the District Carbon Action Plan contained within Appendix A and endorse its implementation through the One Teignbridge Council Strategy.