Response A1345570

Response to request for information

Reference

A1345570

Response date

27 August 2021

Request

Climate emergency and setting a target for your area to be carbon neutral by 2030 please advise:

1. If you have published a plan setting out how you will achieve this target. If so please provide a link to the document.
2. What reduction (if any) in your local authority's own carbon emissions so far.
3. What reduction (if any) in your local authority's own energy consumption.
4. What incentives you have provided (if any) for electric cars. For example, reduction in parking permits and fees.
5. How much of your local authority's own vehicle fleet has been switched to electric vehicles?
6. How many new street trees (if any) you have planted in the financial year 2020/21.
7. What changes (if any) you have undertaken to ease planning restrictions to convert commercial to residential properties. Also to extend existing residential properties - for example in easing the restrictions on mansard roofs.

Response

1. If you have published a plan setting out how you will achieve this target. If so please provide a link to the document. The documents are available on our energy webpages.
2. What reduction (if any) in your local authority's own carbon emissions so far.
3. What reduction (if any) in your local authority's own energy consumption.
4. What incentives you have provided (if any) for electric cars. For example, reduction in parking permits and fees.
5. How much of your local authority's own vehicle fleet has been switched to electric vehicles?
6. How many new street trees (if any) you have planted in the financial year 2020/21. Street trees are the responsibility of Nottinghamshire County Council.
7. What changes (if any) you have undertaken to ease planning restrictions to convert commercial to residential properties. Also to extend existing residential properties - for example in easing the restrictions on mansard roofs. None, national planning regulations and policy applied where applicable.