Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Environment seeking Members to adopt or otherwise the recommendations contained in the Environment and Climate Action Group (ECAG) report to the Local Resilience Forum (LRF) on how to best recover from the COVID-19 pandemic while taking on board wider environmental and climate change goals.

RESOLVED that the actions identified in section 7 of the report are taken forward by the City Council as its response to the ECAG report.

Cabinet considered the report of the Cabinet Member for Environment that sought Members to adopt or otherwise the recommendations contained in the Environment and Climate Action Group (ECAG) report to the Local Resilience Forum (LRF) on how to best recover from the COVID-19 pandemic while taking on board wider environmental and climate change goals.

The Cabinet Member for Environment summarised the background to the report and stated that he broadly supported the ECAG recommendations and that many of them would be incorporated into the forthcoming City Council Climate Change Strategy.  The Cabinet Member for Planning and Housing Strategy reminded Members that some of those recommendations were already being carried out having been addressed in the City Plan.  He particularly drew attention to the assessment of the Gloucester City Homes (GCH) social housing stock as being `too efficient’ to qualify for government retrofit funding (7.5) for which he paid tribute to GCH.  The Cabinet Member for Economic Recovery and Growth informed Members of her own enthusiasm for the progress already made and aimed for.  She thanked the City Climate Change and Environment Manager and his team for their hard work.

RESOLVED that the actions identified in section 7 of the report are taken forward by the City Council as its response to the ECAG report.