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Brentwood Borough Council

Declarations & pledges

Climate emergency declaration

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Council only pledge for 2040

“Brentwood Borough Council wants to do its bit and aims to be carbon neutral within its own activity and borough-wide by 2040.”

Climate documents

Last update: Nov. 14, 2022
Environment Strategy 2022-2025

Climate Strategy · PDF · Approved · Council Only

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Climate Plan Scorecard

This council’s climate plans as of 20th September 2021 were assessed and scored by trained Climate Emergency UK volunteers, as part of the Council Climate Plan Scorecards project.

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Brentwood Borough Council scored zero points in this assessment. This is because the council either didn’t have any published plans at the time of the assessment, or the plans didn’t qualify.

SectionBrentwood Borough CouncilAverage district council
Total score0%43%
Section 1 Governance, development and funding
0/21
9.4/21
Section 2 Mitigation and adaptation
0/18
8.1/18
Section 3 Commitment and integration
0/7
3.8/7
Section 4 Community, engagement and communications
0/9
4.7/9
Section 5 Measuring and setting emissions targets
0/5
2.6/5
Section 6 Co-benefits
0/4
1.9/4
Section 7 Diversity and inclusion
0/5
0.5/5
Section 8 Education, skills and training
0/5
1.5/5
Section 9 Ecological emergency
0/4
1.8/4

Emissions data

360.0 ktCO2

Total 2020 emissions

4.7 tCO2

per person

2.4 ktCO2

per km2

47%

Transport

35%

Domestic

8%

Industry

5%

Commercial

3%

Public Sector

2%

Agriculture

Data from the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy “subset dataset”, representing carbon dioxide emissions within the scope of influence of local authorities.

These councils are the most similar to Brentwood Borough Council in terms of emissions profile, deprivation, rural/urban population density, and geographical nearness. Read more about how we calculate this.

Council nameSimilarityHas planCarbon Neutral byDeclared emergency
East Hampshire District Council86%No2050July 18, 2019
Chelmsford City Council83%Yes2030July 16, 2019
Lichfield District Council82%NoNo targetDec. 10, 2019
Wealden District Council81%Yes2050July 24, 2019
Mole Valley District Council80%No2030June 18, 2019
New Forest District Council80%NoNo targetNov. 6, 2021
Waverley Borough Council79%Yes2030Sept. 18, 2019
Tandridge District Council78%Yes2030Feb. 13, 2020
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council78%Yes2025July 18, 2019
West Berkshire Council78%No2030July 2, 2019

These councils are the most similar to Brentwood Borough Council in terms of their emissions profile, based on the latest data from the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. Read more about how we calculate this.

Council nameSimilarityHas planCarbon Neutral byDeclared emergency
East Hampshire District Council87%No2050July 18, 2019
Lichfield District Council83%NoNo targetDec. 10, 2019
Cotswold District Council81%NoNo targetJuly 3, 2019
Uttlesford District Council79%Yes2030July 30, 2019
Wealden District Council78%Yes2050July 24, 2019
New Forest District Council78%NoNo targetNov. 6, 2021
Vale of White Horse District Council77%Yes2045Feb. 13, 2019
East Cambridgeshire District Council77%Yes2050Oct. 17, 2019
Waverley Borough Council76%Yes2030Sept. 18, 2019
Malvern Hills District Council76%Yes2030July 23, 2019

Read more about how we calculate this.

Council nameSimilarityHas planCarbon Neutral byDeclared emergency
Essex County Council99%Yes2030No
London Borough of Havering98%YesNo targetNo
Thurrock Council98%No2022Oct. 23, 2019
Basildon Borough Council98%Yes2030No
Epping Forest District Council98%Yes2030Sept. 19, 2019
Chelmsford City Council98%Yes2030July 16, 2019
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham97%No2030Jan. 30, 2020
Dartford Borough Council97%NoNo targetOct. 7, 2019
London Borough of Redbridge97%Yes2050June 20, 2019
Harlow Council97%Yes2030July 11, 2019

These councils are the most similar to Brentwood Borough Council in terms of the proportion of their population living in high deprivation, medium deprivation, and low deprivation neighbourhoods. Read more about how we calculate this.

Council nameSimilarityHas planCarbon Neutral byDeclared emergency
Tandridge District Council99%Yes2030Feb. 13, 2020
Warwick District Council98%No2030June 26, 2019
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council98%Yes2030July 17, 2019
Bromsgrove District Council98%YesNo targetJuly 24, 2019
Buckinghamshire Council98%No2050No
Horsham District Council97%Yes2050June 26, 2019
Blaby District Council97%Yes2030No
Stratford-on-Avon District Council97%Yes2030July 15, 2019
North Kesteven District Council97%Yes2030July 11, 2019
Ribble Valley Borough Council97%No2030No

These councils are the most similar to Brentwood Borough Council in terms of the proportion of their population living in urban, rural, and highly rural neighbourhoods. Read more about how we calculate this.

Council nameSimilarityHas planCarbon Neutral byDeclared emergency
Nottinghamshire County Council99%No2030May 27, 2021
Colchester Borough Council97%Yes2030July 17, 2019
Wrexham County Borough Council96%No2030Sept. 25, 2019
North Ayrshire Council95%No2030June 25, 2019
Wyre Council95%Yes2030July 11, 2019
Maidstone Borough Council95%Yes2030April 10, 2019
Chorley Council95%Yes2030Nov. 19, 2019
New Forest District Council95%NoNo targetNov. 6, 2021
Essex County Council95%Yes2030No
Epping Forest District Council95%Yes2030Sept. 19, 2019

Powers & Responsibilities

Brentwood Borough Council is a Non-Metropolitan District, with powers over:

Council buildings and staff

Climate actions might include:

  • making council offices more energy efficient
  • incentivising ‘Active Travel’ or public transport use among employees
  • providing carbon literacy training for employees
    Environmental health

    Climate actions might include:

    • reducing industrial emissions through air quality enforcement
    • bringing up insulation and energy efficiency standards through enforcement of the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) and Decent Homes Standard 2000, for cold and damp conditions in private rental and social housing

    See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.

    Planning and building control

    Climate actions might include:

    • imposing reasonable requirements that new developments comply with energy efficiency standards and get a proportion of their energy from local, renewable sources (Planning and Energy Act, 2008)
    • incorporating additional energy performance standards into their Local Plan, for new works that require planning permission
    • using Area Action Plans to guide development proposals towards lower carbon emissions or more cycling and walking routes, for example
    • enforcing legislation that requires private rental properties to be of Energy Efficiency Rating E or above (Energy Efficiency Regulations, 2015)
    • funding energy efficiency improvements on existing homes, through initiatives such as Green Homes Grants

    See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.

    Housing

    Climate actions might include:

    • setting energy standards above building regulations (Planning and Energy Act, 2008)
    • enabling housing associations to improve the energy efficiency of their housing stock through loans
    • where councils operate their own social housing, prioritising energy efficiency – for example, by requiring Passivhaus standard for newly built schemes

    See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.

    Spending, procuring, and investing

    Climate actions might include:

    • embedding carbon impact assessment as part of the council’s budgeting and financial accountability process
    • utilising Public Works Loan Board loans or the Business Rates Retention Scheme to invest in emissions-reducing capital projects that otherwise wouldn’t get funded
    • specifying low carbon equipment and practices when procuring for relevant services from suppliers
    • prioritising positive environmental impacts during procurement, through the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012
    Waste collection

    Climate actions might include:

    • establishing ‘Joint Waste Solutions’ with neighbouring councils, to get more value out of waste, recycling, and street cleaning contracts
    • running marketing campaigns to encourage residential recycling, reuse, and waste minimisation

    See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.

    Read more about English local authority powers in the UK100 Power Shift report.

    More about this council

    brentwood.gov.uk
    Brentwood Borough Council’s official homepage.
    Tyndall Centre Carbon Budget report
    Check Brentwood Borough Council’s ‘carbon budget’ – their share towards meeting the UK’s Paris agreement targets.
    Friends of the Earth ‘Near You’ tool
    Discover climate groups in this area, data about Brentwood Borough Council’s climate performance, and actions you can take.

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    mySociety, Climate Emergency UK (2023). CAPE: Brentwood Borough Council. Available at: http://cape.mysociety.org/councils/brentwood-borough-council/ [Accessed 22 Mar 2023].

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