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Today's warning
Brent Cabinet will consider the Climate and Ecological Emergency Programme 2024-2026 at next week's meeting. It is a hefty document but discussion will probably be limited to two proposals requiring Cabinet approval with a much deeper consideration at a future Scrutiny Committee:
Approve £3m CIL expenditure for the implementation of the Church End & Roundwood Green Corridors Scheme.
Removal of current weightings in the Brent Carbon Offset Fund Allocations Policy to provide flexibility to maximise overall funding.
There is much more in the documentation and I embed two of the key documents below which outline the plans and progress.
An interesting addition is New Green Neighbourhood Action Plans linked to development for St Raphael's Estate and South Kilburn.
In his forward to the Cabinet paper LINK Jake Rubin, lead member for Climate Action, says:
Achieving carbon neutrality by 2030 remains extremely challenging, requiring a massive upscaling in nationally funded infrastructure programmes as well as concerted action and behaviour change from all sectors and individuals across society. Regardless of whether this aspiration is considered achievable, the climate science tells us that every action taken now to either directly reduce carbon emissions or to improve Brent’s resilience to climate change will help to lessen the worst impacts of climate change in future.
We also know that the adverse impacts of climate change, such as the severe flooding and heatwaves that we have already experienced in recent years, will affect working class communities and those with the greatest needs the most, while action to tackle the climate and ecological emergency has the potential to bring positive change for the whole local community on many of the issues that matter most to people, such as cleaner air, greener spaces, warmer homes, healthier travel and a thriving local economy. Our Climate Programme is therefore vital in improving lives and livelihoods, promoting health and wellbeing and environmental and social justice.
The programme reflects difficulties regarding direct funding at a time of a local government finance crisis. The retrofitting of council homes, for example, is confined to a small pilot although it could significantly impact reduce energy bills for residents across the borough. It is very much an 'invest to save' issue. On the Dashboard below it is well worth paying close attention to the items where Brent Council has 'Direct' powers.
An area that requires cooperation with another body is provision of cycling lanes where Brent Council and TfL/GLA have a joint responsibility. Brent urgently needs a network of safe cycle lanes in addition to the Wembley to Harlesden project recently consulted on.
The papers. (Click on the cross bottom right for full page view)
3 comments:
"An interesting addition is New Green Neighbourhood Action Plans linked to development for St Raphael's Estate and South Kilburn".
So, pretty urgent to have brownfield land defined in English law. Given its been growth on brownfield for 20 years accelerating. What is brownfield land and what is not brownfield land in English law?
The 2019 Local Plan policy change to South Kilburn as a 51m tall building zone and this sited inside the Maida Vale Flood Area (LFR map). Surely five years is enough time for decision makers to present their masterplan for how this car-free housing 45ha at two stations is to be designed as a liveable neighbourhood for residents old and new?
The new in year 2000 linear walkway park with cycle route and sculpture park is being extended west in 2024 as a vehicle road, even through Peel Precinct which was car-ownership/ full pedestrianised before its estate demolition, is now car-free housing at ten times its former population 2024.
There is clearly no walk/cycle/ park/ green routes policies plan anymore for this car-free housing tall buildings zone 45 ha of massive change. ONLY brownfield land being defined in English law can stave off unsound bad growth continuing business as usual in this certain to flood and quite literally sink/sinking estate of many underground rivers and springs.
In Hammersmith and Fulham (Labour Council), Frank Banfield Open Space built in 1974 (a mirror of South Kilburn Public Open Space) has had £460,000 newly spent on it using S106 agreements that the council officers successfully negotiated with re-development sites adjacent... "Developments within the vicinity of public open space are required to contribute towards their continued enhancement, ensuring they remain capable of meeting local recreation, leisure, and health needs, as well as supporting biodiversity and adaptation to climate change."
How does Vistry get such a Brent Labour no plan free ride and how is 1/3rd of SKPOS a site allocation on Brent Local Plan and Mayors London Planning Data Map 2010 to 2024?
A massive car-free housing (active traveling population) 45 ha growth zone like South Kilburn in other boroughs would be policy designated an Active Travel Zone and be S106 invested in accordingly, putting its own active traffic needs first instead of vehicle through traffic displaced from conservation areas being put first instead- the past 20 years of anti- planning Brent.
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