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New Forest District Council

Declarations & pledges

Climate emergency declaration

This council declared a climate emergency on Nov. 6, 2021.

Climate pledges

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Climate documents

Last update: Dec. 5, 2022
Report On Proposed Climate And Nature Emergency Action Plan And The Role The Council Will Play Going Forward

Meeting Minutes · PDF

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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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New Forest District 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.

SectionNew Forest District 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

829.4 ktCO2

Total 2020 emissions

4.6 tCO2

per person

1.1 ktCO2

per km2

44%

Transport

33%

Domestic

16%

Industry

3%

Commercial

2%

Agriculture

1%

Public Sector

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 New Forest District 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
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council85%Yes2025July 18, 2019
Tewkesbury Borough Council83%Yes2030Oct. 1, 2019
East Hampshire District Council82%No2050July 18, 2019
Warwickshire County Council82%Yes2030July 25, 2019
Lichfield District Council81%NoNo targetDec. 10, 2019
Hampshire County Council81%No2050June 17, 2019
West Sussex County Council81%Yes2030April 5, 2019
Braintree District Council81%Yes2030July 22, 2019
North Hertfordshire District Council80%Yes2030May 21, 2019
Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council79%No2030July 16, 2019

These councils are the most similar to New Forest District 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
Braintree District Council88%Yes2030July 22, 2019
Breckland District Council85%Yes2035Sept. 19, 2019
Babergh District Council84%Yes2030July 23, 2019
Horsham District Council83%Yes2050June 26, 2019
East Hampshire District Council83%No2050July 18, 2019
Malvern Hills District Council80%Yes2030July 23, 2019
Wealden District Council80%Yes2050July 24, 2019
South Derbyshire District Council79%Yes2030June 27, 2019
Mid Suffolk District Council79%Yes2030July 25, 2019
Teignbridge District Council79%Yes2025April 18, 2019

Read more about how we calculate this.

Council nameSimilarityHas planCarbon Neutral byDeclared emergency
Southampton City Council97%Yes2030Sept. 18, 2019
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Borough Council96%Yes2030July 16, 2019
Test Valley Borough Council96%Yes2050Sept. 4, 2019
Eastleigh Borough Council95%Yes2025July 18, 2019
Isle of Wight Council94%No2030July 24, 2019
Fareham Borough Council94%Yes2030Oct. 24, 2019
Winchester City Council93%Yes2024June 5, 2019
Gosport Borough Council93%Yes2050No
Wiltshire Council92%No2030Feb. 26, 2019
Portsmouth City Council92%No2030March 19, 2019

These councils are the most similar to New Forest District 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
Staffordshire Moorlands District Council98%Yes2030July 10, 2019
Huntingdonshire District Council98%No2040No
Wiltshire Council98%No2030Feb. 26, 2019
Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council98%No2030July 16, 2019
Cambridgeshire County Council98%Yes2050May 14, 2019
Selby District Council97%Yes2030No
Mid Suffolk District Council97%Yes2030July 25, 2019
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council97%Yes2025July 18, 2019
South Norfolk District Council96%NoNo targetNo
Orkney Islands Council96%YesNo targetMay 14, 2019

These councils are the most similar to New Forest District 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
Epping Forest District Council99%Yes2030Sept. 19, 2019
Derbyshire County Council98%Yes2032No
Maidstone Borough Council98%Yes2030April 10, 2019
Kent County Council97%Yes2030May 23, 2019
Essex County Council97%Yes2030No
Cheshire West and Chester Council97%Yes2030May 21, 2019
Chorley Council97%Yes2030Nov. 19, 2019
Lancaster City Council97%Yes2030Jan. 30, 2019
Wyre Council96%Yes2030July 11, 2019
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council96%Yes2025July 18, 2019

Powers & Responsibilities

New Forest District 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

    newforest.gov.uk
    New Forest District Council’s official homepage.
    Tyndall Centre Carbon Budget report
    Check New Forest District 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 New Forest District Council’s climate performance, and actions you can take.

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    mySociety, Climate Emergency UK (2023). CAPE: New Forest District Council. Available at: http://cape.mysociety.org/councils/new-forest-district-council/ [Accessed 24 Mar 2023].

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