What is Harborough District Council (HDC) doing in response to the Climate Emergency?
- Delivery and monitoring of the plan is now the responsibility of the Cabinet, led by Councillor Phil King. We will be keeping a close eye on things to see what progress they make!
- HDC declared a Climate Emergency in July 2019
- They set up a Working Group, and issued a draft Action Plan in December 2019
- Unfortunately, work had to be put on hold for several months as resources (human and financial) had to be diverted to dealing with the COVID pandemic
- Work on developing a Climate Action Plan started again in July 2021, when HDC started a consultation exercise
- Members of the public were invited to complete an on-line survey, and a consultation workshop was held on July 28th, in which Sustainable Harborough Community and other local community groups participated.
- The Harborough Climate Action sent a response to the council as part of the consultation. You can read a copy of it here
- They followed this up with the production of a leaflet giving suggestions for items we thought should be included in the Climate Action Plan. You can read a copy of it here
- And finally ….the Climate Action Plan was approved and adopted by the full council meeting on Dec 13th. You can find a copy of it here.
- The next stage is for HDC to publish a detailed delivery plan and a communications plan. As of May 2022, these have still not been published
- Whilst it is great that we now have a Climate Action Plan, Harborough Climate Action has many concerns. Find out more here.
- Delivery and monitoring of the plan is now the responsibility of the Cabinet, led by Councillor Phil King. We will be keeping a close eye on things to see what progress they make!
