Agenda item

Report of the City Surveyor.

The Sub-Committee received a Report of the City Surveyor concerning the Carbon Descent Plan 2018.

Officers clarified that the hard trajectory target had been 2018 with the headline final target being 2025. The 2018 – 2025 period would be split into phase 1 (2018 – 2021) where officers would focus on the easier items; the expectation was that phase 2 (2021 – 2025), would prove more challenging, requiring departments to fundamentally change their approach. As a first step officers would be liaising with departments to ensure business plans for the post 2021 period were aligned with the aims of the CDP. In addition, external support staff would be needed in phase 2.

Officers would return in April 2019 with an update Report.

RESOLVED – that the Sub-Committee approved the following:

·         Re-affirm the Corporations existing commitment to a 40% reduction by 2025,

representing an updated 29% reduction target from present absolute performance.

·         Members review the list of potential energy reduction schemes set out in Appendix

A and agree that these should be progressed

·         Agree the City Surveyor should progress those energy savings schemes set out in

Appendix A that don’t require any capital expenditure.

·         Note that any additional staffing cost (such as a fixed term energy project manager)

will initially be met from the City Surveyor’s local risk budget but recovered from the

savings achieved.

·         Agree that those schemes requiring investment be progresses by the City Surveyor

as ‘spend to save’ schemes through the gateway process at the earliest

opportunity.

·         The City Surveyor to report back on progress in six months’ time