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Folkestone and Hythe District Council

… where economically and operationally viable. 15. Examine installation of low emission heating for non-residential council buildings and sheltered housing, e.g. heat pumps; heat network. 16. Identify if there are any suitable locations for solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on council owned buildings and sheltered housing that have a robust business case for the investment. Transport 17…

… of peat, redesign mowing regimes and support adaptation measures such as tree planting for carbon sequestration and ‘cooling-off’ benefits. 30. Use council-owned land to increase biodiversity and carry out tree planting where appropriate. 31. Continue to work with Environment Agency, Kent County Council, business organisations and community groups to develop appropriate flood mitigation…

… with staff to review the Civic Centre’s recycling (this includes tenants in the Civic Centre building as well as the Council) and staff transport – e.g. there is a cycling to work scheme. Staff have also taken part in Kent County Council’s activmob survey which encourages non-car travel to work.  Securing improvements to cycling and walking infrastructure in Folkestone and Hythe through the Local…

… to get the best way forward, and price it. 2. Commit to reduce Folkestone and Hythe District Council’s estate and operations to zero net carbon by 2030. 3. Ensure that all strategic decisions, policy, budgets, investments, contracts, approaches to planning decisions and the council’s own developments are in line with a shift to zero carbon by 2030. 4. Ensure that all future…

… – that issues are addressed in a factual and coherent manner, with assumptions, methodologies and data sources clearly documented; and  Accuracy – that emissions are neither under- nor over-estimated, as far as can be judged, so that decision-makers have confidence in the integrity of the data. Organisational boundaries 4.7 The first step in calculating the district council’s operational carbon…