Issue - meetings

Appendices A and B - the Sustainable Energy Strategy and Implementation Plan respectively - will be circulated to all Executive Members and will also be available in the Members’ Rooms, via the Internet and in the public libraries.

Further to Minute 50 (28 June 2005), received a report and presentation on a Sustainable Energy Strategy which will promote energy efficiency and renewable energy in new and existing buildings and developments in the Borough.  The report also contained an Implementation Plan for the policies and actions contained in the Strategy and set out proposals for the creation of an Energy Strategy Steering Group.

Agreed, in order to assist the Council in achieving its Community Priorities of “Making Barking and Dagenham Cleaner, Greener and Safer”, “Improving Health, Housing and Social Care”, “Regenerating the Local Economy” and “Raising General Pride in the Borough”, to:

1.  Adopt the Barking and Dagenham Sustainable Energy Strategy, as set out in Appendix A to the report;

2.  Note the Implementation Plan for the Strategy, as set out in Appendix B to the report;

3.  The establishment of an Energy Strategy Steering Group to oversee the implementation and monitoring of the Strategy; and

4.  Note that any additional funding required to deliver the Strategy will be subject to either the capital bid process or the 2006/07 revenue budget process.

Received a report on a proposed Sustainable Energy Strategy for the Borough, which also included details of the Greater London Authority’s (GLA) proposal to nominate Barking Town Centre as one of only five ‘Energy Action Areas’ in London.

Agreed to:

1.  Consider the proposed Strategy and Implementation Plan at our meeting on 12 July 2005; and

2.  Endorse Barking Town Centre as an ‘Energy Action Area’ to be taken forward in partnership with the GLA.

Deferred for consideration until 28 June 2005.