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Stoke-on-Trent City Council

Declarations & pledges

Climate emergency declaration

This council declared a climate emergency on July 4, 2019.

Climate pledges

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Climate documents

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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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Stoke-on-Trent City 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.

SectionStoke-on-Trent City CouncilAverage single tier council
Total score0%50%
Section 1 Governance, development and funding
0/21
10.3/21
Section 2 Mitigation and adaptation
0/18
9.0/18
Section 3 Commitment and integration
0/7
4.1/7
Section 4 Community, engagement and communications
0/9
5.1/9
Section 5 Measuring and setting emissions targets
0/5
2.9/5
Section 6 Co-benefits
0/4
2.2/4
Section 7 Diversity and inclusion
0/5
0.9/5
Section 8 Education, skills and training
0/5
2.3/5
Section 9 Ecological emergency
0/4
2.1/4

Emissions data

1175.7 ktCO2

Total 2020 emissions

4.6 tCO2

per person

12.6 ktCO2

per km2

35%

Industry

28%

Domestic

25%

Transport

7%

Commercial

5%

Public Sector

0%

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 Stoke-on-Trent City 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
Kingston-upon-Hull City Council83%No2030March 21, 2019
Wolverhampton City Council82%No2028July 17, 2019
Bradford Metropolitan District Council82%Yes2030Jan. 15, 2019
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council81%No2030March 10, 2020
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority81%Yes2040April 28, 2019
Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council81%No2038Feb. 24, 2020
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council80%Yes2038July 17, 2019
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council80%Yes2030July 18, 2019
Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council79%Yes2040Jan. 29, 2020
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council79%No2030Oct. 30, 2019

These councils are the most similar to Stoke-on-Trent City 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
Tees Valley Combined Authority83%NoNo targetNo
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council82%No2030Oct. 30, 2019
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council81%YesNo targetNo
Hartlepool Borough Council80%NoNo targetNo
Kingston-upon-Hull City Council79%No2030March 21, 2019
Telford & Wrekin Council78%Yes2030July 25, 2019
Newport City Council78%Yes2030Nov. 23, 2021
Charnwood Borough Council78%Yes2030No
Torfaen County Borough Council76%NoNo targetJune 25, 2019
Swale Borough Council76%Yes2025June 26, 2019
Council nameSimilarityHas planCarbon Neutral byDeclared emergency
Newcastle-Under-Lyme District Council97%No2030April 3, 2019
Stafford Borough Council97%No2040July 23, 2019
Staffordshire Moorlands District Council96%Yes2030July 10, 2019
Cheshire East Council (Unitary)95%Yes2025May 22, 2019
Staffordshire County Council94%No2050July 25, 2019
Cannock Chase District Council93%No2030July 17, 2019
East Staffordshire Borough Council93%Yes2040Aug. 17, 2020
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council93%No2030March 28, 2019
South Staffordshire Council92%NoNo targetSept. 10, 2019
Telford & Wrekin Council92%Yes2030July 25, 2019

These councils are the most similar to Stoke-on-Trent City 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
Kingston-upon-Hull City Council94%No2030March 21, 2019
Salford City Council91%No2038July 17, 2019
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council91%No2030March 10, 2020
Blackpool Borough Council90%Yes2030June 26, 2019
West Midlands Combined Authority90%No2041June 28, 2019
South Tyneside Council90%No2030July 18, 2019
Wolverhampton City Council89%No2028July 17, 2019
Bradford Metropolitan District Council89%Yes2030Jan. 15, 2019
Nottingham City Council89%Yes2028Jan. 21, 2019
Birmingham City Council89%No2030June 11, 2019

These councils are the most similar to Stoke-on-Trent City 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
City of Lincoln Council100%Yes2030July 23, 2019
Salford City Council100%No2038July 17, 2019
Harlow Council100%Yes2030July 11, 2019
Exeter City Council99%Yes2030July 23, 2019
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council99%Yes2050Sept. 16, 2019
Middlesbrough Borough Council99%No2029Sept. 4, 2019
Crawley Borough Council98%Yes2040July 17, 2019
Worcester City Council98%Yes2030July 16, 2019
Tamworth Borough Council98%No2050Oct. 19, 2019
Cheltenham Borough Council98%Yes2030Feb. 18, 2019

Powers & Responsibilities

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is a Unitary Authority, 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.

    Passenger transport

    Climate actions might include:

    • encouraging bus and private hire operators to use low-emission vehicles, through licensing requirements or Clean Air Zones
    • incentivising bus use by improving routes, timetables, and ticket prices through ‘Enhanced Partnerships’ with operators
    • proposing to central government the development of light rail / tram networks that integrate, rather than compete, with other modes of transport in the area

    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.

    Schools and libraries

    Climate actions might include:

    • reducing the carbon footprint of civic buildings through better insulation and renewable energy use
    • incentivising ‘Active Travel’ or public transport use among employees
    • providing carbon literacy training for employees
    • encouraging eco-clubs at schools
    • using school land to plant trees and hedgerows, or to grow food

    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
    Transport planning

    Climate actions might include:

    • incentivising ‘Active Travel’ like walking and cycling by creating or widening footways and cycleways
    • incentivising Electric Vehicle use by assigning street space to EV charging
    • disincentivising the use of fossil fuel cars through congestion charging,low-traffic neighbourhoods, or the reduction of parking space

    See more in the Climate Emergency UK checklist.

    Waste collection and disposal

    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

    stoke.gov.uk
    Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s official homepage.
    Tyndall Centre Carbon Budget report
    Check Stoke-on-Trent City 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 Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s climate performance, and actions you can take.

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    Cite this page

    mySociety, Climate Emergency UK (2023). CAPE: Stoke-on-Trent City Council. Available at: http://cape.mysociety.org/councils/stoke-on-trent-city-council/ [Accessed 6 Jun 2023].

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