What we are doing

We have been busy since passing the climate emergency developing a climate change strategy and action plan.

• Launching the #SaveOurSeas campaign to reduce litter dumping into the sea, particularly plastics
• Installing solar panels on the roof of our main council offices at Muriel Matters House so we can produce some of our own electricity
• Encouraging recycling in the borough through My Hastings
• Improving street-cleaning services to reduce environmental waste
• Supporting community beach cleaning events
• Updating Electric Vehicle charging sites at Pelham Place and Marina car park
• Commissioned expert research to understand the interventions we need to plan for to meet carbon neutrality 
• Updating our local plan policies to ensure it reflects the climate emergency ambitions 
• Commissioned a study to understand what a zero-carbon new housing development would need to consider 
  

In September 2020 AECOM consultancy and the Council presented the climate emergency research findings to the Hastings and St Leonards Local Strategic Partnership. The recordings from the workshop can be found below.

View Cllr forwards welcome in the video recording with transcript.

Watch the recording and listen to the presentation to find out about where the towns greenhouse gas emissions from our use of energy arise form and the ideas about how we can plan to reduce them.

• View the AECOM video presentation
• The low carbon study which the work has also informed

There is a lot more that we are planning on doing as a council to tackle climate change. Details of this can be found in our strategy and interim action plan.