Monday’s Walsall Partnership meeting had its fair share of “routine” business on its agenda. However there was some good debate on the following.
- The Nottingham Declaration.
Walsall Partnership signed up to this back in December 2007. The Declaration recognises the central role of local authorities in leading society’s response to the challenge of climate change.
By signing the Declaration councils pledge to systematically address the causes of climate change and to prepare their community for its impact.
Progress seems to be painfully slow, and more to the point, low key. In the field of development control in particular the council appears to have missed the message of the Nottingham Declaration all together.
The Tory leadership in this area clings on to the past and acts like a dinosaur, frustrating the aims and objectives of local regeneration projects such as the one in Willenhall, which is keen on promoting zero carbon standards on new build in the face of development control’s anything goes attitude.
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