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Southend-on-Sea Borough Council

… of climate change (e.g. flood damage). We will prioritise action on enhancing and improving our green and open spaces in Southend, so that we can benefit from associated impacts around health and well-being, air and water quality for our communities. Focus Area Four: Future Generations To ensure that future generations in Southend are actively engaged throughout the process to see the borough…

… to fulfilling our Climate Change commitments and moving forward as a ‘Green City’. This will include working with local charities, interest groups and other citizen-led organisations to co- create and deliver solutions that will see Southend prioritise work on climate action and sustainability. 4 Key considerations that help to shape this Green City Action Plan 1. Local…

…, transport, waste and renewable power generation). We must lead by example and reduce emissions across our own estate, complete our street lighting programme and identify how we can target emission reductions via transport and procurement. 2. Prioritising action on climate change delivers many local benefits. As well as contributing to national net zero targets, carbon reduction programmes can bring…

… a large range of benefits. These include lowering energy bills, driving economic regeneration, creating new jobs, improved health and opportunities to tackle social inequalities. Increasing the borough’s resilience to climate change can result in avoided costs from flood damage (buildings, infrastructure and services), enhancement of green and open spaces and have positive impacts on health and well…

…-being. 3. Planning and Construction: Our planning functions are one of the key enablers for an urban landscape to reduce its carbon emissions and build a local areas resilience to the future impacts of climate change. We must ensure that our strategic plan-making and development management/building control functions are used to: enforce energy efficiency targets in new builds (and extensions…