Agenda item

Report of the Executive Director, Environment.

The Committee received a report of the Executive Director, Environment providing information about planning stage whole life cycle carbon emissions calculated for development proposals by applicant teams.

A Member queried the breakdown in the report in operational carbon emissions. An Officer stated that the data that had been monitored was planning application stage data so was likely to change. The carbon emission savings achieved were much higher than the GLA target.

A Member asked when the Committee could expect to receive the Embodied Carbon Action Plan. An Officer stated that this was a commitment in the current financial year. This would take into account a whole host of issues around work that was taking place in the planning system. Much consideration had been given to a retrofit first policy in the new City Plan which would be a significant step towards dealing with embodied carbon and also how the Corporation could influence government to try and ensue that embodied carbon was being given importance. Members were informed that the climate action strategy dashboards were published online. The climate action strategy points targets were being met. Some of the embodied emissions were operational emissions. There was complexity in working out the best way of publicising and collating the embodied data in applications. This data was published on the website but the mechanism for including this in the climate action strategy and the dashboard was still a work in progress.

A Member asked if consideration was being given to the scope for schemes the City had permitted and whether this could be incorporated into the tracker.

RESOLVED –  That Members:-

1.         note the report; and

2.         agree that this item be added to the Outstanding Items list.