Climate Policy - Llanidloes Town Council

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Llanidloes Town Council acknowledges the Climate emergency and has agreed the following policy.
The Town Council will:

Take action to improve its practices and thus reduce its own contribution to climate change
Call on Wales and UK Government when appropriate, to provide support and resources to enable communities to move to becoming a net – zero carbon producer
Work with other organisations such as Renew Wales, Powys County Council, other Town and Community Councils and local businesses to help counter climate change
Encourage resilience to climate impact for example through encouraging sustainable practices
Increase biodiversity
Produce and action plan

1. Bring together interested parties to shar knowledge and to support those groups and residents

2. Consider an annual budget for climate related small grant awards

3. Encourage the use of sustainable practices when responding to planning applications

4. To support the use of renewable energy and where possible use renewable energy in Town Council owned buildings

5. To publicise events etc via the Town Council Website

6. To seek to improve bus routes and consider local leaflet with timetables etc

7. To ask those organising Town events to consider their use of single use plastic and reduce this as much as possible

8. Encourage use of recycling/reusable points as much as possible, e.g. Woosnam and Davies for Spectacles, PC-Q for recycling ink cartridges etc

9. Request PCC reinstate recycling points in Llanidloes, i.e. Green Waste, Glass, Cardboard etc

10. Encourage the planting of trees where ever possible