Climate Change

Climate Change Summit

The Assembly organised a South East Climate Change Summit on 30 March 2007 in Brighton to share good practice and discuss how regional partners and organisations can help meet the challenges of climate change. The Summit, hosted jointly with the South East Climate Change Partnership, was attended by more than 130 organisations from local government, business, environmental and social sectors.

It called for more flexibility for councils to set and enforce higher building standards than existing ones and ways to encourage consumers to make more environmentally responsible choices, and Government guidance to help deliver these objectives.

Guide

The Assembly launched a practical guide at the Summit for planners, local councils, developers, regulators and service providers to inform their plans. The guide explains how new housing can be designed making it more resilient against a changing climate preparing for hotter summers and wetter winters and ways to ensure new homes are water and energy efficient. It will help deliver the Assembly's South East Plan, a 20-year planning framework.

The Assembly guide includes a booklet and CD, which can be viewed below.
Booklet - 582 KB
Guide - 125 KB

Presentations

Copies of the presentations are available below:
Brighton and Hove City Council - 1.78 MB
Friends of the Earth - 753 KB
Improvement and Development Agency - 624 KB
South East England Regional Assembly - 578 KB
Southern Water - 847 KB
Tyndall Centre - 665 KB
Woking Borough Council - 1.35 MB

One Planet Village Conference

Representatives of rural communities from across the South East and organisations with an interest in rural issues came together on how to take action on sustainability issues with the aim to produce a good practice guide that improves quality of life in the region. The conference, ‘One Planet Village’ in Lingfield, Surrey on May 24 was hosted jointly by South East Rural Affairs Forum and the Regional Assembly.

Speaking at the conference were representatives from Defra, Natural England and Bio Regional who put forward their views on how rural communities could tackle sustainability issues locally.

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