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Wiltshire Council are currently consulting on proposed changes to their waste collection service which will see alternate weekly rubbish collections introduced across the county. Evidence from other councils has shown that, where alternate weekly collections are introduced – recycleable material one week, residual waste the next – recycling rates have improved. For this reason, South Wiltshire Agenda 21 are supporting the proposed changes. To find out more and take part in this consultation visit http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/council/consultations.htm South Wiltshire Agenda 21 regularly submit responses to local consultations and to major planning applications, with a view to ensuring that environmental considerations are taken into account by Wiltshire Council and others in their decision making process. We also encourage member groups and individuals to submit their own responses and make sure their voice is heard. We welcome contributions towards our group responses to ensure that we represent the views of the membership. Wiltshire Council consultations are accessible from their website at http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/council/consultations.htm Below are some examples of our recent responses. By Green Business Awards judging panel: Ken Taylor, Araine Crampton and Guy Beards. March 2010. Council calls for businesses to commit on Carbon FootprintSponsor Wiltshire Council’s Alistair Cunningham presenting the Salisbury & District Chamber of Commerce’ Green Business Award in February 2010 said that the council was committed to sustainability and reducing its carbon footprint by 50% by 2020. It was looking for business to do likewise, adding that being sustainable not only benefited the environment but the bottom line as well.
Information and Inspiration from Winchester’s Climate Change conference
There was great concern across Wiltshire when 9 councillors signed up to a motion put to the Wiltshire Council meeting on 15.9.09 requesting that the Council withdraw from the Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change (a commitment to tackle the causes and effects of Climate Change). However there was cause for celebration when the motion was resoundingly defeated – the final recorded vote showed 6 in favour of the motion and 84 voting against (i.e. in support of the Declaration). Not all of those who had signed up to the motion in fact supported it after the debate! Read more on Wiltshire Council affirm support for Nottingham Declaration & 10:10 Campaign Consultation on the South Wiltshire Core Strategy, part of the local Development Plan, started on 10 August and runs through until 30 September. Consult information on the process and the documentation. Information is also available at the Public Library, Salisbury or the Planning Office at Wyndham Road. South Wiltshire Agenda 21 will be submitting a response, any comments for inclusion in the group’s response would be most welcome, bearing in mind that at this stage (leading up to the Examination in Public) comments will only be accepted on the prescribed form and can only be made on the ‘soundness’ of the Core Strategy (i.e. whether it meets legal requirements in terms of process and compliance with policy etc – notes accompanying the representation form give full details). THIS CONSULTATION IS NOW CLOSED Salisbury District Council are in the middle of a 6 week consultation over its Local Development Framework (LDF). All comments must be received by 25 April 2008. Salisbury and its district are predicted to grow considerably over the next 20 years and decisions have to be made about where or whether to build 12,400 new houses and provide premises and facilities for 14,000 new jobs. Is this a sustainable way forward for Salisbury and south Wiltshire? To find out more you can attend the public meetings and visit exhibitions at the following places across the area (Amesbury meeting has passed). All exhibitions will take place during these times: 1-6pm, 7-8.30pm. Read the Draft Core Strategy (Preferred Options)To submit your comments to SW Agenda 21 please leave a comment after this post or send your comments directly to Salisbury District Council. Comments to the council should arrive by 11 April. The draft final Salisbury Vision document will go before the City Area Community Committee on 22 January and Salisbury District Council Cabinet on 30 January 2008. |
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