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East Ayrshire Council

… of these sites into local economic and social life. Across Scotland, through tree planting initiatives, this plan has identified the potential to create in excess of 1,000 hectares of new woodland. The focus will be on creating productive woodland that combines a matrix of native and conifer species. This will create a wealth of benefits from greening these sites, increasing the productive contribution…

… as a new style UNESCO Biosphere  The East Ayrshire Coalfield Environment Initiative (CEI)  The Ayrshire Rivers Trust  East Ayrshire Leisure / Ayrshire College horticulture and arboriculture Partnership  The Coalfield Communities Landscape Partnership  22 Community Led Action Plans. Forestry and Tree Planting 66. Within East Ayrshire there is significant opportunity…

… at the former opencast mining sites, for brownfield restoration through tree planting and forestation. Working in partnership with Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) and the new landowners, the Council has developed a plan to facilitate the restoration of opencast sites. The aim is to identify and prioritise these sites for new tree planting to enable the useful rehabilitation and reintegration…

… operational energy costs involved with the electrification of heat. 32. Within our property estate portfolio we already have a number of sites that have renewable technologies currently installed. These include solar PV and solar thermal PV panels, Ground Source Heat Pumps and biomass boiler plant. Working with and incorporating learning from NERD and emerging technologies, we will continue…

… to be incinerated in Thermal Treatment - Energy from Waste Plants that require significant capital investment and planning time to bring into operation. Following a state of the market survey, which established that just over a third of local authorities had no long-term solution to meet the requirements of the ban, the Scottish Government pushed back the implementation date of the ban to 1 January 2025…