The Strategic Plan 2020-23

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Tackling the climate challenge and leading sustainability

Priorities Goals
Respond to the Climate Emergency
  • Reduce carbon emissions to help achieve a net zero Carbon footprint for Council Services by 2030.
  • Environment and sustainability embedded within all Council decision making and the adaptation and recovery from Covid-19.
  • Air quality across Colchester is improved.
  • Continue to support residents to reduce, reuse and recycle their waste.
Conserve and enhance biodiversity
  • Minimise the environmental impact of our activities.
  • Enhance environments to create more space for nature to grow and thrive through natural seeding and greening.
  • Discover, nurture and enable the work led by communities​ that promotes biodiversity.
  • Plant native species and manage our woodlands, meadows and greenspace whilst sustaining existing habitats.
  • Work alongside communities to maintain clean, green neighbourhoods and urban spaces that we all look after and enjoy.
Enable more opportunity for walking and cycling around Colchester
  • Work with partners to implement strategies and develop measures to reduce traffic in the town centre.
  • Improve facilities and routes for cyclists and walkers​ to enable active travel behaviours, healthier lifestyles and reduce car use​.
  • Ensure major regeneration projects put physical activity, cycling and walking at the forefront of development​.

Page last reviewed: 28 October 2020