Climate change survey for local (parish and town) councils

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* 5. Please enter your contact details for any follow-up research:

Name

Address

Address 2

City/Town

ZIP/Postal Code

Email Address

Phone Number

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* 6. What is your local council’s annual budget for the 2020-21 financial year?

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* 7. Has your council declared a Climate and/or Biodiversity Emergency?

Climate emergency

Biodiversity emergency

Declaration pending

No declaration planned or made

Don't know

None of these

If you have declared an emergency, please provide brief details such as date of declaration and target carbon neutrality date

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* 8. Has your council carried out a carbon footprint calculation? Please select all that apply:

Yes, for council operation

Yes. for the area that you cover

Please add details of your carbon footprint totals if available:

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* 9. What carbon-reducing measures are you working on in the community? Please select all that are applicable.

Electric Vehicle charging points

Car sharing scheme

Encouraging active travel

Expanding network of bicycle lanes and footpaths

Supporting public transport (e.g. subsidising rural bus service)

Incentives for switching to a sustainable energy supplier

Generating sustainable energy

Energy efficiency incentives (e.g. insulation)

Tree and shrub planting

Rewilding/wildlife friendly planning (from verges to larger areas)

Working with local landowners to manage land for wildlife

Cutting the use of pesticides

'Buy local' incentives

Local produce markets

Working with local businesses

Community fridge

Skills and traning (e.g. training people in the community to do retrofits/energy efficient measures)

Don't know

Other (please specify)

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* 10. What carbon-reducing measures are your council working on within their own operations? Please select all that are applicable.

Switching the council fleet to electric

Home working options for staff where possible

Encouraging active travel (walking and bicycles)

Encouraging use of public transport

Car sharing scheme

Divesting to sustainable banking

Favouring locally sourced products and services

Improving the energy efficiency of council buildings

Switching council buildings to a sustainable energy supplier

Generating your own renewable energy

Using land to draw down carbon (e.g. tree planting and rewilding)

Sustainable procurement

Don't know

Other (please specify)

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* 11. In order to work towards carbon neutrality/sustainability, do you need support with any of the following? Please select all that are applicable

Locating and applying for relevant grants and subsidies

Raising money

Relevant knowledge, skills and training

Understanding behaviour change

Outreach and publicity

Don't know

Other (please specify)

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* 12. Has your council or community met any barriers to progressing your climate emergency work?

Policy

Lack of power to act or to influence decisions made at higher levels

Low staffing levels

Skills and knowledge

Motivation

Financial

Don't know

Other (please specify)

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* 13. Please provide details of any ways you may have overcome these barriers to your climate change activities

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* 14. Has your council or community come up with any innovative carbon-cutting actions that you would like to share with us?

If yes, please provide details

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* 15. Do you have a neighbourhood plan, and does it address issues such as renewable energy or other sustainable activities?

We have a plan but it does not address sustainable issues

No plan

Pending

We aim to add sustainable measures to our exisiting plan

Yes, we have a plan which addresses sustainable actions -please state what sustainable actions it covers

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* 16. Has your council passed a resolution to exercise the General Power of Competence under the Localism Act 2011?

The General Power of Competence gives Councils the power to do anything an individual person can do, provided that is not explicitly prohibited in law.

Local Councils can declare the General Power of Competence when they meet two tests: (1) having a CiLCA qualified Clerk, and (2) 2/3 of Councillors publicly elected.

Yes

Pending

Don't know

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* 17. Has your council set up a community Climate Emergency Working Group (or similar)?

Pending

Don't know

Yes -please provide details including the group's name and aims

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* 18. Is your council working with any of the following climate action groups?

Friends of the Earth

Climate Emergency UK

Extinction Rebellion

Greenpeace

Don't know

Other (please specify)

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* 19. If your council is not interested in acting on the climate emergency, please describe why you think that might be:

The councillors believe the council is too small to make a difference

Perceived lack of support in the community

Lack of resources or powers

The majority of the council do not feel that there is a climate emergency

The majority of the council feel that it is too late to act on the climate emergency

Don't know

Other (please specify)

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* 20. What is the most significant change that you would like to retain after the COVID-19 pandemic?

Increased home working

Supporting residents to cycle and walk more

Community spirit

Appreciation of local green spaces

Increase in use of technology

Reduction in the use of paper

All of the above

Other (please specify)

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* 21. If your council has no plans to act on the climate emergency, what might help to change the councillors' minds? Please tick as many boxes as are applicable.

Climate change awareness resources

A package of advice on how to declare a climate emergency

Financial support

Teaming up with your neighbouring councils

Teaming up with community groups

You believe the council is not interested in acting on the climate emergency even with support

Don't know

Other (please specify)

Climate change survey for local (parish and town) councils

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* 1. Please enter your council name:

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* 2. Please enter your county association

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* 3. Are you a councillor or a clerk?

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* 4. Would you be happy for us to contact you?

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* 5. Please enter your contact details for any follow-up research:

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* 6. What is your local council’s annual budget for the 2020-21 financial year?

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* 7. Has your council declared a Climate and/or Biodiversity Emergency?

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* 8. Has your council carried out a carbon footprint calculation? Please select all that apply:

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* 9. What carbon-reducing measures are you working on in the community? Please select all that are applicable.

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* 10. What carbon-reducing measures are your council working on within their own operations? Please select all that are applicable.

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* 11. In order to work towards carbon neutrality/sustainability, do you need support with any of the following? Please select all that are applicable

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* 12. Has your council or community met any barriers to progressing your climate emergency work?

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* 13. Please provide details of any ways you may have overcome these barriers to your climate change activities

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* 14. Has your council or community come up with any innovative carbon-cutting actions that you would like to share with us?

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* 15. Do you have a neighbourhood plan, and does it address issues such as renewable energy or other sustainable activities?

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* 17. Has your council set up a community Climate Emergency Working Group (or similar)?

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* 18. Is your council working with any of the following climate action groups?

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* 19. If your council is not interested in acting on the climate emergency, please describe why you think that might be:

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* 20. What is the most significant change that you would like to retain after the COVID-19 pandemic?

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* 21. If your council has no plans to act on the climate emergency, what might help to change the councillors' minds? Please tick as many boxes as are applicable.