2G3S supporter Anthony Cooper has written a timely and very comprehensive paper entitled ‘Planning for Net Zero’ which you can read here. Note this is a second, revised edition (November 2020) which includes an author’s preface.
Topics covered include:
Governance
The Climate Change Act
Sustainable Development
Planning
Population
Housing
Transport
Water Supply, Flooding and Waste Disposal
Atmospheric Pollution
Commerce and Industry
Energy
Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry and Fishing
Conservation and Heritage
People
Green Belts
Defence
Where do we go from here?
Anthony is a retired government legal adviser (Treasury Solicitor’s Dept and Department of Trade & Industry) and has taken a keen interest in town planning and environmental issues for many years. He served on the National Committee of CPRE in the 1990s and has been an active member of Cambridge, Past, Present and Future (formerly the Cambridge Preservation Society) for 30 years. He currently serves on the society’s Planning Committee.
Please note that the views expressed in Anthony’s paper are personal and do not necessarily represent those of 2G3S as a whole.
If you wish to comment on Anthony’s paper, you can reach him via 2G3S. Email us at greengroupssss@gmail.com, with the heading ‘Cooper Net Zero paper’.