Barking and Dagenham - CR1: Climate Change and Environmental Management

Policy information sourced from Barking and Dagenham Adopted Core Strategy

POLICY CR1: CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

To contribute towards global, national, regional and local sustainability, and in particular to address the causes and potential impacts of climate change, the Council will:

Implement the Barking Town Centre Energy Action Area and ‘lead by example’ by seeking to achieve exemplar sustainability standards on its own developments in this area.
Take measures to reduce the Council’s own carbon footprint through energy and resource efficiency improvements to Council buildings and awareness raising initiatives such as the Green Champions scheme.
Promote and enable sustainable transport (for the movement of both people and freight) including the use of the river wherever practicable.
Produce a Climate Change Strategy which will set out how the Council and its key partners will manage its own impact on climate change and undertake climate change adaptation measures.
Require all new development to meet high environmental building standards and encourage low and zero carbon developments.
Manage flood risk so that people and property will not be placed at risk from flooding.
Promote sustainable water demand and waste management.
Protect water and air quality.
Promote the remediation of contaminated land.
Plan in harmony with landscape and biodiversity.

For more information please see the Barking and Dagenham Adopted Core Strategy