Reading list

6 August 2008

Case studies of Local Authority action

• Woking Borough Council - Climate Change Strategy
• Merton Rule website
• List of local authorities who have adopted or are pursuing Merton-style policies
• Milton Keynes- Local Plan (10% rule is on page 153, Policy PE13)
• British Gas and Local Authorities council tax rebate programme - press release
• The Nottingham Declaration on Climate Change
• Local Government Authority, EST and Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes - Leading the way: how local authorities can meet the challenge of climate change.
• Improvement and Development Agency - works with local authorities to share best practice on a range of issues including climate change initiatives.
• International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives is an international association of local authorities that have made a commitment to sustainable development. ICLEI run a Climate Change Programme, which shares best practice on climate change policy.

Low carbon homes

• Building a Greener Future. A Government Consultation document on the relationship between the planning system, Code for Sustainable Homes and Building Regulations in delivering zero carbon buildings. Consultation period closes on 8 March 2007.
• Code for Sustainable Homes. A new national standard for sustainable design and construction of new homes launched in December 2006.
• WWF - One Million Sustainable Homes
• BREEAM (includes information on EcoHomes). BREEAM standards have been developed by the Building Research Establisment and look at the environmental impact on new commerical buildings. EcoHomes is the standard for residential buildings.

National Planning Documents

• Planning and Climate Change - Supplement to Planning Policy Statement 1
  This document marks a major breakthrough in embedding climate change in the heart of planning. It is the key document that Local Authorities must refer to when designing their own plans. In Consultation form until 8 March 2007.
• Planning Policy Statement 1: Delivering Sustainable Development
• Planning Policy Statement 22: Renewable Energy
• Securing the Future - delivering the UK's sustainable development strategy
• The Planning Response to Climate Change. Advice on Better Practice
• The Planning System - General Principles

Climate Change Research

• The international body of scientists responsible for summarising research into climate change and reporting to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Fourth Assesment Report will be published during 2007 and will be available from here: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
• The UK Climate Impacts Programme has many publications, including a breakdown of how climate change will impact on each region. You have to log into the site to search their publications database and download all their reports.
• If you just need a quick and easy document to demonstrate international opinion then the Joint Science Academies' Statement: Global Response to Climate Change written for the G8 in 2005 is very useful.

Useful Organisations

• The Carbon Trust
• Energy Savings Trust

Friends of the Earth Documents and Links

• Want to know more about planning? Use this link to find our planning pages.
• Community Rights Resource Pack
• Planning Policy Statement 1: Creating Sustainable Communities - A Summary
• Action Pack Five: Getting climate change targets into your Local Development Frameworks (2005)
• 'Tackling climate change at the local level: the role of development frameworks in reducing the emissions of new developments'. (same as above but without the introduction for campaigners)
• What the Government should do to tackle climate change
• A Local Campaigners Guide to the New English Planning System
• Tackling climate change through the planning system - looking at the new planning policy statement on climate change
• 50 Climate Top Tips for individuals