| Theme | Cross Cutting Theme | Action Number | Action | Section of the plan | Prioritisation score | Who does this action involve? | Where should this action take place? | Financial status | Potential funding stream where identified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cross Cutting Themes | Finance, economy & resource access | C1 | Foster innovation in technologies, institutions, business models, policy design and behaviour to achieve net-zero. | 6.4.2 | All | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Cross Cutting Themes | Behaviour transformation and community engagement; Spatial Planning | C2 | Support community groups and cultural creatives to develop local net-zero visions, to imagine a decarbonised Devon collectively and in detail. | 6.5.2 | County Council, Community Organisations, Education Establishements, Individuals | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required – identified but not secured | Develop a funding bid with David Sergeant at the University of Plymouth | |
| Cross Cutting Themes | Behaviour transformation and community engagement | C3 | Seek funding to research the effectiveness of the Devon Citizen’s Assembly on Climate Change to inform whether this approach could be applied to citizen participation in other decisions locally. | 6.6.2 | All Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Cross Cutting Themes | C4 | Local Plans and Neighbourhood Plans to demonstrate how they will shape places in ways that contribute to radical reductions in greenhouse gas emissions so facilitating achievement of net-zero Devon, as a primary planning objective. This must include the requirement for new development to provide tangible plans for its contribution to Devon’s net-zero future. | 6.7.2 | Individuals and Town and Parish Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |||
| Cross Cutting Themes | Spatial Planning | C5 | Work with government on greater guidance on how to shape places in ways that contribute to radical reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. | 6.7.2 | All Councils and National Park Authorities | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Cross Cutting Themes | Spatial Planning | C6 | Involve communities in an update to the landscape strategies and guidelines within Devon’s Landscape Character Assessment to plan positively for change arising from the Net-Zero challenge. | 6.8.2 | All Councils and National Park Authorities, Individuals | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Economy and resources | Behaviour transformation and community engagement | R1 | Deliver ongoing, targeted communication and engagement to: empower all social groups in Devon to act on the impacts of how things are made and distributed, promote more sustainable consumption habits, the prevention of waste (particularly food) and shift to a culture of reduction, reuse and recycling. | 7.4.2 | National Park Authorities, County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Community Organisations and Education Establishments | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | Collaborate with Recyle Devon | |
| Economy and resources | Knowledge sharing, skills and learning | R2 | Support communities to establish and promote repair cafes, share sheds and composting schemes, for example by providing funding or premises. | 7.4.2 | County Council, Town and Parish Councils, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Community Organisations, | City and Town, Suburbs | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Economy and resources | Finance, economy & resource access | R3 | Review the provision of resale and reuse facilities at all household waste recycling centres and implement improvements where needed. | 7.4.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Economy and resources | Finance, economy and resource access | R4 | Encourage the consumption of low carbon experiences, such as the arts, nature, education and social care, rather than material consumption. | 7.4.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, Local Nature Partnership, County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Community Organisations, NHS and Public Health | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Economy and resources | Finance, economy and resource access | R5 | Support immature industries with the potential to contribute to delivering a net-zero Devon. | 7.4.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, Local Nature Partnership, County Council, Unitary Councils, Businesses | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Economy and resources | Behaviour transformation and community engagement | R6 | Reduce fossil-based materials, for example plastics and textiles, going to Energy Recovery Facilities. | 7.5.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District & Borough Councils, Businesses, Individuals | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Economy and resources | Procurement and commissioning | R7 | Consider the net carbon impact in decisions regarding the reprocessing of local authority collected waste, which may lead to collaborating with neighbouring counties to achieve viable scale. | 7.5.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District & Borough Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Economy and resources | Behaviour transformation and community engagement | R8 | Achieve a 65% municipal waste recycling rate by 2035. To do so, local authorities and commercial waste carriers to separately collect a wider variety of materials for recycling (including food waste) and household waste collection systems to be harmonised across Devon as far as viable. | 7.5.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District & Borough Councils, Businesses, Individuals | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Economy and resources | Procurement and commissioning | R9 | Business Improvement Districts or Chambers of Commerce to consider jointly procuring commercial waste management contracts to achieve economies of scale in each locality and increase recycling. | 7.5.2 | Town and Parish Councils, Community Organisations and Businesses | City and Town | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Economy and resources | R10 | Waste collection authorities that do not currently offer a commercial waste service to consider implementing services, including collaborating with neighbouring authorities. | 7.5.2 | District & Borough Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |||
| Economy and resources | R11 | Work with government to incentivise the recycling of materials based on their carbon intensity as well as weight. | 7.5.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils and Businesses | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |||
| Economy and resources | R12 | Work with government to support and incentivise businesses to comply with the new Environment Bill requirements on commercial and industrial waste separation to divert it from landfill. | 7.5.2 | District and Borough Councils, Local Enterprise Partnership, Businesses | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Economy and resources | R13 | Continue to work with government on the specific nature of upcoming reforms of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) system for packaging and a possible Deposit Return Scheme for drinks containers to ensure cohesive measures that support Devon’s net zero ambitions. Work with government on the extension of the scope of EPR to other waste streams. | 7.5.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |||
| Economy and resources | R14 | Work with government to achieve circular economy enhancements e.g. material and building passports and further market support for reclaimed/recycled materials. | 7.5.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Economy and resources | R15 | Local authorities to remain engaged with government funding opportunities to pilot carbon capture and storage technology on industrial facilities in Devon, such as the ERF plants. | 7.5.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Businesses | City and Town | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Economy and resources | R16 | Work with government to develop a much better understanding of commercial waste generation and treatment in the county to enable monitoring and regulation with the aim of reducing waste volumes and increasing recycling. | 7.6.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Businesses | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Economy and resources | Behaviour transformation and community engagement | R17 | Encourage Devon’s food supply chain businesses to implement the Courtauld Agreement using the toolkit provided by WRAP | 7.7.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | Devon Authorities Recycling Partnership | |
| Economy and resources | R18 | Seize opportunities for wastes within the food supply chain to be used as a resource by other sectors of the supply chain | 7.7.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, County Council, Unitary Councils, Community Organisations and Businesses | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required – identified but not secured | Potenital to develop projects thorugh exisiting research partnerships with Universities | ||
| Economy and resources | R19 | South West Water to enhance the capture of process emissions from waste water treatment facilities. | 7.7.2 | Businesses - South West Water | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Economy and resources | R20 | Establish a partnership to look at the feasibility in Devon of using biomethane for electricity generation, gas grid injection and vehicle fuel. | 7.7.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, National Park Authorities, Education Establishments, Businesses, Farmers | Rural | New local resource required - yet to be identified | Potential continuation of the existing AgroRes project | ||
| Economy and resources | R21 | Assess performance of methane capture at commercially operational landfill sites and enhance where feasible, targeting efforts at worst performing sites. | 7.7.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils and Businesses | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Economy and resources | R22 | Work with government to provide a financial incentive to ensure the continued and improved capture of methane from landfill sites. | 7.7.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, Businesses | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |||
| Economy and resources | Procurement and commissioning | R23 | “Anchor institutions” to embed social and environmental value further into tendering processes to effect meaningful change and sustainable procurement | 7.8.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, National Park Authorities, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, NHS and Public Health, Businesses, Education Establishments | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Economy and resources | Procurement and commissioning | R24 | Raise awareness with "anchor institutions" of the opportunity and benefits from specifying reclaimed and recycled materials so that markets for these products are developed further. | 7.8.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, National Park Authorities, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, NHS and Public Health, Education Establishments, Businesses, Community Organisations | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Economy and resources | Procurement and commissioning | R25 | "Anchor institutions" to coordinate packages of start-up funding to community owned companies that can provide goods and services back to those institutions to stimulate local economies. | 7.8.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, National Park Authorities, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, NHS and Public Health, Businesses, Education Establishments | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Economy and resources | Finance, economy and resource access | R26 | Support immature industries with the potential to contribute to delivering a net-zero Devon by offering packages of finance, training and expertise on legal matters, marketing and procurement, as well as assisting with premises and land as appropriate. | 7.9.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Local Enterprise Partnership, Local Nature Partnership, Businesses | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Economy and resources | Finance, economy and resource; behaviour transformation and community engagement | R27 | Provide a support service to businesses and organisations to help them decarbonise their operations and culture. | 7.9.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Economy and resources | Behaviour transformation and community engagement | R28 | Provide a support service to communities to collectively support each other through a low-carbon transformation. e.g. Transition Streets | 7.9.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Community Organisations | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Economy and resources | Knowledge sharing, skills and learning; Finance, economy and resource | R29 | Develop training and reskilling opportunities with higher education providers and the Local Enterprise Partnership to enable workers in carbon-intensive sectors to redeploy into emerging sectors to ensure the low carbon skills base is available. | 7.10.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, Education Establishments, County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Economy and resources | Behaviour transformation and community engagement | R30 | Provide support for individuals and communities experiencing lifestyle changes due to a transition to net-zero | 7.10.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Community Organisations | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Economy and resources | Finance, economy and resource | R31 | Provide the South West Mutual with start-up funding. | 7.11.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | South Hams, West Devon and East Devon Councils have already done so. However more will be required. | |
| Economy and resources | Finance, economy and resource | R32 | Consider the use of mechanisms to allow the community to invest in municipal infrastructure and share good practice about successful use of crowd-sourcing funds for civil society groups. | 7.11.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, National Park Authorities, Businesses and Community Organisations | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Energy Supply | E1 | Develop an energy strategy for Devon to deploy renewable energy generation. | 8.4.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, National Park Authorities, Businesses, Environmental Organisations, Community Organisations | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required – identified but not secured | Potenital funding by Devon County Council for the Devon Climate Emergency | ||
| Energy Supply | E1.1 | Update assessments of the accessible renewable energy resource available in Devon | 8.4.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, National Park Authorities, Businesses, Environmental Organisations, Community Organisations | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required – identified but not secured | Potenital funding by Devon County Council for the Devon Climate Emergency | ||
| Energy Supply | E1.2 | Identify opportunities for large-scale renewable energy and storage deployment on land owned or managed by Devon Climate Emergency partners, and wider business community. | 8.4.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, National Park Authorities, Businesses and Community Organisations, NHS and Public Health, Education Establishments | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Energy Supply | E1.3 | Consider the role of nationally significant energy infrastructure, potentially developed outside of Devon, flexibility markets and storage technologies, and how this could change the total capacity required to be generated within Devon. | 8.4.2 | County Council | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required – identified but not secured | Potenital funding by Devon County Council for the Devon Climate Emergency | ||
| Energy Supply | E1.4 | Consider the potential role and feasibility of a hydrogen industrial cluster based around port and fuel storage facilities. | 8.4.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils and Businesses | City and Town | New local resource required – identified but not secured | Potenital funding by Devon County Council for the Devon Climate Emergency | ||
| Energy Supply | Finance, economy & resoruce access | E1.5 | Support community-owned renewable energy schemes, for example, by offering Power Purchase Agreements and/or leases for land. | 8.4.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Community Organisations, Education Establishments, Businesses | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Energy Supply | Spatial Planning; Knowledge sharing, skills and learning | E1.6 | Appraise the potential for low carbon heat networks in new development to make best use of existing heat producers e.g. the Energy from Waste facility in Exeter, and as a retrofit opportunity in off-gas areas. | 8.4.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils | City and Town | Within existing resources | ||
| Energy Supply | Behaviour transformation and community engagement | E2 | As part of Devon-wide behaviour and culture change initiatives, provide advice on choosing genuine renewable energy tariffs. | 8.4.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Community Organisations | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Energy Supply | E3 | Proactively seize opportunities to test approaches to making the energy system smarter and more flexible. | 8.6.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Community Organisations, Businesses, Individuals | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Energy Supply | Finance, economy & resource access | E4 | Through the Team Devon COVID-19 Economy and Business Recovery Prospectus, Devon Climate Emergency Partners to request funding for grid upgrades as part of Covid-19 recovery funding from government. | 8.6.2 | Team Devon and Devon Climate Emergency Partners | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Energy Supply | Finance, economy & resource access | E5 | Devon Climate Emergency partners to work with national government to provide greater incentives for the use of renewable heat and waste heat from industrial and commercial facilities, including Energy Recovery Facilities. | 8.7.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Businesses | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Energy Supply | Finance, economy & resource access | E6 | Devon Climate Emergency partners to work with national government to request the reintroduction of support mechanisms for small-scale renewable electricity generation. | 8.7.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, National Park Authorities, Businesses | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Energy Supply | Finance, economy & resource access; Knowledge sharing, skills and learning | E7 | Remain engaged with government funding opportunities to pilot carbon capture and storage technology on industrial facilities in Devon, such as the Energy from Waste plants. | 8.8.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| The Built Environment | Knowledge sharing, skills and learning | B1 | Expand whole house retrofit trials in Devon, such as Energiesprong, by working with social landlords to aggregate their housing stock and collectively procure retrofit, targeting houses most in need first. | 9.4.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Businesses | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | Initial grant funding will speed up development of the market, Finance from long term savings on existing social landlord maintenance budgets and resident energy bill savings | |
| The Built Environment | Finance, economy & resource access; Behaviour transformation and community engagement | B2 | Offer bulk-purchasing opportunities for domestic solar PV and battery storage across Devon. | 9.4.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Community Organisations | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | The South West Energy Programme and County Council in partnershp with iChoosr | |
| The Built Environment | Finance, economy & resource access | B3 | Explore opportunities to use the carbon offset market to fund the retrofit of domestic and commercial buildings | 9.4.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, County Council, Unitary Councils, Community Organisations | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| The Built Environment | Finance, economy & resource access | B4 | Work with government to achieve VAT breaks on retrofit activity and products. | 9.4.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| The Built Environment | Spatial Planning | B5 | Sell the co-benefits of living in warm, net-zero ready homes through awareness-raising campaigns and open-home events. | 9.4.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Community Organisations and NHS and Public Health, Businesses, Individuals | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| The Built Environment | Behaviour transformation and community engagement | B6 | Establish a Devon-wide energy advice service that links home-owners, landlords and tenants with independent energy assessors, skilled installers and market offers. | 9.5.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Community Organisations, Businesses | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | Advice service set up funded by grant .As service evolves, paid for through levy on cost of delivering works. | |
| The Built Environment | Knowledge sharing, skills and learning | B7 | Keep abreast of innovative solutions emerging from the "Boosting Access for SMEs to Energy Efficiency" competition by UK government and pilot promising approaches in Devon. | 9.5.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, County Council, Unitary Council, Community Organisations, Businesses, | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| The Built Environment | Knowledge sharing, skills and learning | B8 | Work in partnership with large energy users in the non-domestic sectors, including health and education, to share best practice in energy reduction. | 9.5.2 | Education Establishments, NHS and Public Health, Businesses, County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, National Park Authorities | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| The Built Environment | Finance, economy & resource access | B9 | Work with government to review The Domestic Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard Regulations to make it more effective and practical for local authorities to enforce non-compliance. | 9.6.2 | Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| The Built Environment | Spatial Planning | B10 | Produce a regularly-updated Devon-wide evidence base on the costs of developing net-zero carbon homes, incorporating examples already existing in the county, for use in Local Plan viability appraisals. | 9.8.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils and National Park Authorities | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| The Built Environment | Finance, economy & resource access; Knowledge sharing, skills and learning | B11 | South West to promote its status to government as the leading region on low-carbon buildings, including embodied carbon, founded on the low-carbon buildings already here and "anchor institutions" commitments to zero-carbon, nature-friendly new build and retrofit. | 9.8.2 | , | Local Enterprise Partnership, County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Education Establishments, NHS and Public Health, Businesses | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |
| The Built Environment | Knowledge sharing, skills and learning | B12 | Demonstrate the viability of building net-zero carbon homes by reviewing the opportunity for local authorities to partner with a developer to test the building of net-zero houses off-site, at scale in Devon to reduce costs. | 9.8.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Community Organisatins | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| The Built Environment | Spatial Planning | B13 | Planning authorities to ensure green space and tree planting, and the necessary funds to maintain them, is included within new development to aid building energy efficiency. | 9.8.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, National Park Authorities | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| The Built Environment | B14 | Should the future homes standard consultation decide that net-zero homes will not be mandated until 2025, the Devon Climate Emergency Partners will express opposition to this and request it to be brought forward. | 9.8.2 | All Partners | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |||
| The Built Environment | B15 | Encourage all organisations to rationalise external lighting provision in consultation with parish and town councils where appropriate, and switch to LED technology. | 9.9.2 | Education Establishments, NHS and Public Health, Businesses, County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, National Park Authorities, Community Organisations | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |||
| The Built Environment | B16 | DCERG to write to Highways England, encouraging the rationalisation of streetlight provision where safe and not inhibiting of active travel. | 9.9.2 | All partners | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |||
| Transport | Knowledge sharing, skills and learning; Behaviour transformation and community engagement | T1 | Provide up-to-date digital information and advice on reducing the need to travel and the most sustainable travel choice | 10.4.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Community Organisations and Businesses | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Transport | Spatial Planning | T2 | Promote development which will assist in relocalisation in all settings (rural through to urban), including mixed use development, development meeting local needs and creating opportunities to live, work and use services locally. | 10.4.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Community Organisations | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Transport | Finance, economy & resource access | T3 | Continue to make use of funding opportunities to provide employment and community assets across Devon, particularly where the market is unlikely to provide this, in order to minimise the need to travel for access to services. | 10.4.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Community Organisations | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Transport | T4 | Ensure that the carbon implications are considered when making efficiency savings to community services | 10.4.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, NHS and Public Health | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |||
| Transport | T5 | Review opportunities to reduce vehicle capacity, particularly where it can support other objectives (i.e. urban centre regeneration, street cafes, active travel routes.) | 10.4.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils and District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils | City and Town | Within existing resources | |||
| Transport | T6 | Develop local cycling and walking infrastructure plans (LCWIPs) with communities for each city, town and their surrounding areas. | 10.6.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required – identified but not secured | Government active travel funding, related to Covid | ||
| Transport | T7 | Improve strategic cycle routes within and between settlements. | 10.6.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Transport | T8 | Greater provision of cycle training, including bike maintenance and repair | 10.6.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, Community Organisations, Education Establishments, Businesses | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Transport | T9 | Where possible, design pavements and junctions to prioritise pedestrians and cyclists over vehicular traffic. | 10.6.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |||
| Transport | Behaviour transformation and community engagement | T10 | Enable schemes that would allow residents to trial different types of cycles. | 10.6.2 | Businesses, Community Organisations | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Transport | T11 | Introduce reduced speed limits for safer shared public space. | 10.6.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |||
| Transport | T12 | Provide support for bike rental schemes | 10.6.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Community Organisations | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Transport | Spatial Planning | T13 | Local Plans to ensure new developments are designed with filtered permeability to promote sustainable travel | 10.6.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils | City and Town, Suburbs | Within existing resources | ||
| Transport | T14 | Implement car free days in Devon’s urban areas | 10.6.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils | City and Town | Within existing resources | |||
| Transport | T15 | Help develop innovative transport solutions in rural areas | 10.6.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils | Rural | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Transport | T16 | Promote car sharing technology and platforms to make it easier to link drivers and passengers | 10.6.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Community Organisations and Businesses | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |||
| Transport | T17 | Introduce Ultra-Low-Emission-Vehicle taxis by placing requirements on the licensing process. | 10.6.2 | Unitary Councils and District and Borough Councils | City and Town | Within existing resources | |||
| Transport | Finance, economy & resource access; Procurement and commissioning | T18 | Explore long term sustainable options for community and voluntary sector transport. | 10.6.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, Town and Parish Councils and Community Organisations | Rural | Within existing resources | ||
| Transport | T19 | Extend the prevalence of true bus priority on the highway | 10.6.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils | City and Town | Within existing resources | |||
| Transport | T20 | Enhancement of bus priority measures, including bus lanes and bus-only streets, to make bus travel relatively more attractive than driving | 10.6.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils | City and Town | Within existing resources | |||
| Transport | Finance, economy & resource access; Procurement and commissioning | T21 | Protect and seek to enhance funding for financially-supported local bus routes, to ensure people can continue to access services, employment and events without requiring access to a car. | 10.6.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Transport | T22 | Promote Total Transport, integrating various transport services (school transport, public bus services, patient transport etc.) to enable more efficient use of vehicles and reduce dead mileage. | 10.6.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils and District and Borough Councils, NHS and Public Health | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |||
| Transport | Finance, economy & resource access; Procurement and commissioning | T23 | Request that national government removes VAT from bicycles and e-bikes. | 10.6.2 | All partners | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Transport | T24 | Through the Peninsula Sub-National Body work with government to pilot and implement a low carbon fuel solution for rail travel in the South West. | 10.6.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, County Council, Unitary Councils, Businesses | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Transport | T25 | Through the Peninsula Sub-National Transport Body, work with government to improve strategic and branch line rail infrastructure and services, including reviewing the reopening of lines and increasing access to rail and integration with other modes of transport. Work with government for required funding. | 10.6.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, County Council, Unitary Councils, Businesses | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Transport | T26 | DCE to write to government, giving their support to increase the fixed penalties for idling under The Road Traffic (Vehicle Emissions) (Fixed Penalty) (England) Regulations 2002, from £20 to £50. Implement an awareness raising campaign for the public. | 10.6.2 | Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils and NHS and Public Health | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |||
| Transport | Finance, economy & resource access; Procurement and commissioning | T27 | Work with government to greater reflect and prioritise the cost of carbon in highway funding decisions. | 10.6.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Transport | T28 | Take advantage of opportunities arising from the upcoming National Bus Strategy to deliver long-term, sustained improvements in bus services | 10.6.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required – identified but not secured | Related to the upcoming National Bus Strategy | ||
| Transport | T29 | Greater provision of cycle parking across Devon and at key interchange locations | 10.7.2 | District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Education Establishments, NHS and Public Health, Businesses, Community Organisations | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Transport | Spatial Planning | T30 | Ensure provision of mobility hubs in new developments of appropriate size, where modal change can occur easily. | 10.7.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils and District and Borough Councils | City and Town, Suburbs | Within existing resources | ||
| Transport | T31 | Ensure public transport enables easy transition to active travel for the first and last mile. | 10.7.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Businesses | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Transport | T32 | Introduce integrated ticketing | 10.7.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils and Businesses | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Transport | T33 | Create nodal car parks at strategic points to encourage onward car sharing | 10.7.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils | City and Town, Suburbs | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Transport | T34 | Develop an electric vehicle strategy to increase electric vehicle charging provision across Devon, including in key public spaces and workplaces, on street charging and plans to address the tourism sector. | 10.8.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Community Organisations, Local Enterprise Partnership, Businesses | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | Use aggregated purchasing power to reduce costs of vehicles and charging infrastructure •Existing fleet management budgets. •Fuel bill and maintenance savings •Government grant and incentives as available. | ||
| Transport | Spatial Planning | T35 | Local Plans to ensure provision of Electric Vehicle charging points where parking spaces are provided in new developments | 10.8.2 | Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Transport | T36 | Electric charging and shared mobility on DCE member owned assets | 10.8.2 | All partners | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | •Use aggregated purchasing power to reduce costs of vehicles and charging infrastructure •Existing fleet management budgets. •Fuel bill and maintenance savings •Government grant and incentives as available. | ||
| Transport | T37 | DCE partner organisations and larger businesses in the county to transition their fleets to Ultra Low Emission Vehicles, including shared cycles and ecargo bikes. | 10.8.2 | All partners, Businesses | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | •Use aggregated purchasing power to reduce costs of vehicles and charging infrastructure •Existing fleet management budgets. •Fuel bill and maintenance savings •Government grant and incentives as available. | ||
| Transport | T38 | Support operators to decarbonise bus fleet, e.g. through supporting applications for central government funding | 10.8.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required – identified but not secured | •Existing fleet management budgets. •Government grant and incentives as available. | ||
| Transport | Finance, economy & resource access | T39 | Seek opportunities for funding for moving public transport fleets across to zero or low carbon | 10.8.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, Businesses | City and Town | New local resource required - yet to be identified | •Existing fleet management budgets. •Fuel bill and maintenance savings •Government grant and incentives as available. •Aggregated demand and procurement to deliver savings and economies of scale. | |
| Transport | T40 | Work with government to ensure financial incentives are set at the required level to encourage the purchase of ultra-low emissions vehicles | 10.8.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, County Council, | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |||
| Transport | T41 | Work with government to ensure electricity supplies in new buildings provide capacity for electric vehicle charging, including shared charging facilities in high-density development. | 10.8.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |||
| Transport | Knowledge sharing, skills and learning | T42 | Seize opportunities to trial low carbon propulsion for aviation. | 10.9.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership and County Council | City and Town, Suburbs | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Transport | Spatial Planning | C4 | Local Plans and Neighbourhood Plans to demonstrate how they will shape places in ways that contribute to radical reductions in greenhouse gas emissions to facilitate the achievement of Net-Zero in Devon, as a primary planning objective. This must include the requirement for new development to provide credible plans for it to contribute to Devon’s net-zero carbon future. | 10.9.2 | Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Community Organisations, Individuals | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Transport | T43 | Support the provision of electric cargo bikes to enable low-carbon deliveries in urban areas | 10.10.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils and District and Borough Councils, Community Organisations and Businesses | City and Town | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Transport | T44 | Work with hauliers to identify opportunities to reduce emissions from freight movement, for example by planning consolidation centres | 10.10.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, County Council, NHS and Public Health, Businesses | City and Town | Within existing resources | |||
| Transport | Knowledge sharing, skills and learning | T45 | Trial, demonstrate and share learnings of synthetic fuels, biogas and hydrogen powered HGVs and other large vehicles. | 10.10.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Businesses | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Transport | Spatial Planning | T46 | Local Plans to safeguard existing rail freight infrastructure. | 10.10.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils and District and Borough Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Transport | Knowledge sharing, skills and learning | F5 | Support the development of on-farm bio-methane collection from agricultural wastes to supply bio-methane for farm machinery. Seize opportunities to trial on County farms together with electrification. (Discussed in more detail in Food, Land and Sea). | 10.10.2 | County Council, Businesses, Farmers | Rural | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Transport | T47 | Work with government to restore and promote rail freight grants to incentivise modal shift and provide funding for new terminals and infrastructure | 10.10.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, County Council, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Action | Section of the plan | ||||||||
| Food, Land and Sea | Spatial Planning | F1 | Develop a Land Use Framework (LUF) for Devon to establish land use principles that embed carbon sequestration and storage and identifies opportunity areas for specific outcomes to guide land use decisions | 11.4.2 | Businesses, Community Organisations, County Council, District and Borough Councils, Environmental Organisations, Farmers, National Park Authorities, Town and Parish Councils, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Spatial Planning | F1.1 | Develop a Nature Recovery Network of joined-up places, on land and at sea, created from maps that identify opportunities for the protection, restoration, and creation of habitats that increase carbon sequestration and storage alongside bringing benefits for nature and people | 11.4.2 | Businesses, Community Organisations, County Council, District and Borough Councils, Environmental Organisations, Farmers, National Park Authorities, Town and Parish Councils, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | F1.2 | As part of the Land Use Framework, and underpinned by the Nature Recovery Network, identify opportunities to implement a Trees for Devon initiative. | 11.4.2 | Businesses, Community Organisations, County Council, District and Borough Councils, Environmental Organisations, Farmers, National Park Authorities, Town and Parish Councils, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Food, Land and Sea | Spatial Planning | F1.3 | Local Plan and Neighbourhood Plan reviews to consider the principles of the LUF alongside other planning considerations. | 11.4.2 | District and Borough Councils, National Park Authorities, Town and Parish Councils, Unitary Councils. | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Spatial Planning | F2 | Develop a Biodiversity Net-Gain Supplementary Planning Document that can be adopted by local planning authorities | 11.5.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Environmental Organisations | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Spatial Planning | F2.1 | Enable landowners to express an interest in hosting biodiversity net-gain initiatives related to development | 11.5.2 | Environmental Organisations, County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Finance, economy & resource access | F3 | Support the development of carbon sequestration accreditation systems locally for a range of carbon rich habitats and the creation of a Devon Carbon Investment platform. | 11.5.2 | Businesses, Community Organisations, County Council, District and Borough Councils, Environmental Organisations, Farmers, Local Enterprise Partnership, National Park Authorities, Unitary Councils | Rural, Coast | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Finance, economy & resource access | F4 | Work with government to ensure the effective delivery of carbon sequestration, alongside other public goods, through the design of ELMS, by engaging in public consultations and Devon Test and Trials. | 11.5.2 | Businesses, Community Organisations, County Council, District and Borough Councils, Environmental Organisation, Farmers, National Park Authorities, Unitary Councils | Rural | Within existing resources | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Knowledge sharing, skills and learning | F5 | Support development of on-farm bio-methane collection from agricultural wastes to supply bio-methane for farm machinery and the use of digestate. | 11.6.2 | Businesses, County Council, Education Establishments, Environmental Organisations, Farmers | Rural | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Finance, economy & resource access | F6 | Support immature industries with the potential to contribute to delivering a net-zero Devon. | 11.6.2 | Businesses, County Council, Environmental Organisations, Local Enterprise Partnership | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Spatial Planning | F7 | Local plans to allocate land for horticulture near to settlements where suitable. | 11.6.2 | District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Spatial Planning | F8 | Local Plans to incorporate policies based on the Welsh One Planet Development updated to reflect the imperatives of Net Zero. | 11.6.2 | District and Borough Councils, National Park Authorities, Unitary Councils | Rural | Within existing resources | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Knowledge sharing, skills and learning | F9 | Work with the NFU and other representatives of the farming community to encourage approaches to conserve and rejuvenate soil carbon (organic matter) e.g. through ELMS. | 11.6.2 | Businesses, County Council, Environmental Organisations, Farmers, National Park Authorities, Individuals | Rural | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Finance, economy & resource access | F10 | Identify funding (through the Agriculture Bill) that can support the purchase / shared use of machinery for direct drilling. | 11.6.2 | Businesses, County Council, Environmental Organisations, Farmers | Rural | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Behaviour transformation and community engagement | F11 | Raise awareness of the options for low carbon funerals and burials. | 11.6.2 | Businesses, Community Organisations, District and Borough Councils, Unitary Councils, Individuals | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Knowledge sharing, skills and learning | F12 | Review existing farm advisory services within Devon, as well as best practice elsewhere. | 11.7.2 | Businesses, Community Organisations, County Council, Environmental Organisations, Farmers, Local Enterprise Partnership, National Park Authorities | Rural | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Knowledge sharing, skills and learning | F12.1 | Establish a Devon Farm Advisory Service | 11.7.2 | Businesses, Community Organisations, County Council, Environmental Organisations, Farmers, Local Enterprise Partnership, National Park Authorities | Rural | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Knowledge sharing, skills and learning | F13 | Explore how the County farms estate could encourage and enable tenants to practice innovative regenerative low carbon agriculture by learning from the Dartington estate and others. Share experience in tenancy agreement innovations to encourage wider adoption. | 11.7.2 | Council Council, Environmental Organisations, Farmers | Rural | Within existing resources | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Finance, economy & resource access | F14 | Implement a Sustainable Food Devon initiative to develop demand and supply chains for local, healthy food. | 11.8.2 | Businesses, County Council, Community Organisations, District and Borough Councils, Farmers, NHS and Public Health, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required – identified but not secured | Sustainable Food Places grant funding and Devon County Council | |
| Food, Land and Sea | Finance, economy & resource access | F14.1 | Support the development of attractive central local food retail areas. | 11.8.2 | Businesses, Community Organisations, District and Borough Councils, Unitary Councils, County Council | City and Town | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Finance, economy & resource access | F14.2 | Provide support for intermediaries to amalgamate local produce in food hubs, support processing and perform marketing. | 11.8.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, Community Organisations, County Council, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - identified and secured | South West Food Hub project | |
| Food, Land and Sea | Procurement and commissioning | F14.3 | Encourage the region’s anchor institutions to buy local through the South West Food Hub, which will establish sustainable, shorter supply chains across Devon's food sector. | 11.8.2 | Local Enterprise Partnership, County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, National Park Authorities, Businesses, Community Organisations, Education Establishments, NHS and Public Health | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - identified and secured | South West Food Hub project | |
| Food, Land and Sea | Knowledge sharing, skills and learning; Behaviour transformation and community engagement | F14.4 | Promote a balanced diet, in line with the government’s Eatwell Guide and reconnect people with the origin and seasonality of food through "grow, cook, eat" programmes. | 11.8.2 | Community Organisations, County Council, District and Borough Councils, Education Establishments, Environmental Organisations, National Park Authorities, NHS and Public Health, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Procurement and commissioning | F14.5 | Encourage catering in anchor institutions to provide sustainably produced, locally sourced and nutritious meals in line with the government’s Eatwell Guide. | 11.8.2 | Businesses, Community Organisations, County Council, District and Borough Councils, Education Establishments, Local Enterprise Partnership, National Park Authorities, NHS and Public Health, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Behaviour transformation and community engagement | F15 | Work with government to introduce a mandatory carbon footprint labelling system for food products | 11.8.2 | Businesses, County Council, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Environmental Organisations, Farmers | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | F16 | Work with government to ensure the carbon and ecological costs of domestic and imported food, including animal feed, are reflected in their market price. | 11.8.2 | Businesses, County Council, District and Borough Councils, Environmental Organisations, Local Enterprise Partnership, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |||
| Food, Land and Sea | F17 | Work with government to revise slaughter regulations to allow on farm slaughter for commercial meat production, where high animal welfare and food hygiene are ensured, to enable localised food production infrastructure. | 11.8.2 | Businesses, Community Organisations, County Council, District and Borough Councils, Farmers, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | |||
| Food, Land and Sea | Spatial Planning | F18 | Devon Maritime Forum and Devon’s estuary partnerships to continue supporting and engaging with the development of Marine Plans by the Marine Management Organisation along the Devon coast | 11.10.2 | Businesses, County Council, District and Borough Councils, Environmental Organisation, Town and Parish Councils, Unitary Councils | Coast | Within existing resources | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | F19 | Develop a South Devon Marine Natural Capital Plan, learning from the experience of the North Devon Natural Capital Plan. | 11.10.2 | County Council, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Community Organisations, Environmental Organisations, Local Enterprise Partnership | Coast | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Food, Land and Sea | F19.1 | Establish and maintain an inventory of marine natural capital. | 11.10.2 | County Council, District and Borough Councils, Unitary Councils, Education Establishments, Environmental Organisations | Coast | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Food, Land and Sea | Behaviour transformation and community engagement | F19.2 | Use local regulatory levers and enhance public awareness to discourage activities contributing to marine and coastal habitat fragmentation and degradation | 11.10.2 | County Council, District and Borough Councils, Town and Parish Councils, Community Organisations, Environmental Organisations | Coast | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | F19.3 | Future reviews of the Shoreline Management Plans covering the Devon coast to identify opportunities for carbon rich marine and coastal habitats to survive and expand by migrating inland with sea level rise. | 11.10.2 | County Council, District and Borough Councils, Environmental Organisations, Unitary Councils | Coast | Within existing resources | |||
| Food, Land and Sea | Knowledge sharing, skills and learning | F19.4 | Pilot specific initiatives which lead to marine carbon sequestration | 11.10.2 | County Council, District and Borough Councils, Community Organisations, Education Establishments, Environmental Organisations, Businesses | Coast | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Behaviour transformation and community engagement | F19.5 | Provide advice on how care of gardens and what goes down the sink affects the sea. | 11.10.2 | County Council, Community Organisations, Education Establishments, Environmental Organisations, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | Behaviour transformation and community engagement | F19.6 | Engage and support the fishing sectors to improve access to and incentivise shoreside disposal of old fishing equipment. | 11.10.2 | Community Organisations, Unitary Councils, District and Borough Councils, Environmental Organisations, Businesses | Coast | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | F19.7 | Work with government to introduce more Marine Conservation Zones and provide the resources necessary to be effective. | 11.10.2 | County Council, Unitary Councils, Environmental Organisations, Businesses | Coast | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Food, Land and Sea | F19.8 | Work with government for greater monitoring and enforcement of the dumping of fisheries waste at sea. | 11.10.2 | Community Organisations, County Council, Unitary Councils, Environmental Organisations | Coast | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Food, Land and Sea | Knowledge sharing, skills and learning | F19.9 | National Marine Park and Devon and Severn IFCA to trial new ecosystem approaches to fisheries management. | 11.10.2 | Businesses, Community Organisations, County Council, Environmental Organisations, Unitary Councils | Coast | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | F19.10 | Work with government to provide further support for smaller fishers, including redistribution of UK quotas, based on social value. | 11.10.2 | County Council, Environmental Organisations, Unitary Councils, Businesses | Coast | Within existing resources | |||
| Food, Land and Sea | Finance, economy & resource access | F19.11 | Identify investment opportunities for, and work with government to trial, a system that rewards environmentally sensitive fishing activities. | 11.10.2 | County Council, Environmental Organisations, Unitary Councils, Businesses | Coast | New local resource required - yet to be identified | ||
| Food, Land and Sea | F20 | Work with government to introduce legislation to require net gain in the marine environment. | 11.10.2 | County Council, Environmental Organisations, Unitary Councils | Coast | Within existing resources | |||
| Food, Land and Sea | F21 | Work with government to improve the effectiveness of pollution legislation and enforcement of existing. | 11.10.2 | County Council, Environmental Organisations, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | New local resource required - yet to be identified | |||
| Food, Land and Sea | F22 | Work with the government to increase funding to enhance the effectiveness of the Catchment Based Approach, which provides coordination of conservation measures between landowners and potential funders at a catchment scale for improved water quality and nature. | 11.10.2 | County Council, Environmental Organisations, Unitary Councils | Will occur everywhere | Within existing resources |
