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Maidstone Borough Council

… the electric vehicle charging needed and active travel. Outcome: Reduced carbon emissions. Cost and responsibility: BCC Manager time. Timescale: 2020 to when any new building completed in keeping with 2030 Net Zero commitment. Action 1.7 Building on our Low Emission Strategy, Kent and Medway Energy and Low Emissions Strategy , and the emerging policies relating to electric vehicles, work with KCC, district…

… time. Timescale: 2020-2023 Action 2.2 Promote access to schemes to residents, landlords and housing associations, for retrofitting insulation to existing homes including ECO3, LA Flex and the Green Homes Grant Scheme. Output: Homeowners and landlords access schemes to install insulation so reduce heating bills and reduce carbon emissions, with particular emphasis on upgrading homes with an EPC rating…

… the action plan on an annual basis. Our Net-Zero commitment We have committed to becoming as close to carbon neutral as possible by 2030. Carbon Neutrality also referred to as Net-Zero can be achieved through reducing existing emissions and actively removing greenhouse gases. We have committed to achieving Net-Zero for our own operations by 2030 and our long-term aspiration is to become carbon…

… negative or a footprint less than neutral, so that we have a net effect of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. At a borough wide-scale, in accordance with national government targets, and based on Tyndall Centre data, we have set out carbon reduction milestones to reduce CO2 emissions by -13.4% each year across the borough to reach near to Net-Zero by 2041. However, it must be noted…

… for electric vehicles across the borough. Action 1.1 Influence the Development Plan to: establish policies that enable the infrastructure required for low carbon vehicles; ensure policies encourage and enable development proposals that give first priority to pedestrian and bicycles, both within the scheme and its surrounding areas; and ensure policies facilitate high…