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Case Studies
Case Studies
CLASP is collecting together best practice case studies from across the North West. If you have a case-study to add, on any topic, please email it to ailsa@clasp-nw.info
| General | NI 185 |
| NI 186 | NI 188 |
| LSPs | Beacon Councils |
General
Cumbria Draft Climate Change Strategy
Cheshire Climate Change Scrutiny Review
Lancashire Climate Change Strategy
NI 185
Collaborative Eco-Reps Handbook
The Cheshire & Warrington Public Sector Carbon Management Group has produced an Eco-Reps Handbook as a collaborative project to engage staff on sustainability issues. The handbook has been specifically designed to be transferable to other organisations and areas. You can download the Handbook from here.
Green
Energy At Work - Cumbria County Council
GAAW is an in-house initiative aimed at improving
Cumbria County Council's (own) environmental performance, by
addressing staff's behaviours and attitudes towards their
responsibility to environmental issues and practical solutions.
Click on the link above for the full case study.
Promoting
Energy Awareness Among Staff - Swindon
Swindon Borough Council established a network of individuals
throughout the council who could meet regularly to promote and
disseminate information. Click on the link above for the full case
study. Text © IDeA 2001-2008
Automatic Meter Reading, Manchester City Council
Manchester City Council have been working with their gas and
electricity suppliers to formulate appropriate and cost effective
proposals for introducing Automatic Meter Reading into Council
buildings. These automatic systems are designed to enhance the
Council's ability to meet their climate change targets through
sensible and stringent use of gas and electricity. The direct
effects of automatic systems are the ability to read consumption
accurately, track changes of time and make predictions of future
energy use. This increased understanding of energy consumption
allows for more accurate procurement, minimising wastage and
over-capacity.
Manchester City Council Green Champions
Scheme
Green Champions is an internal scheme that encourages council
employees to act more sustainably at work and at home. They are
given information on the little changes they can make to their
everyday lives, and are encouraged to persuade other to live more
sustainable. Any employee can join up to the scheme and do as much
or as little as they choose. Champions receive a regular email with
energy saving hints and tips, as well as details of campaigns they
can choose to become involved in. Since it's launch in 2005 the
scheme grown to over 900 members across the Local Authority. The
scheme was awarded a prestigious Green Apple Award for Best
Practice in 2006.
NI 186
Personalised Travel Planning in Lancashire
Between 2005 and 2009 Lancashire County Council with partners Preston City and South Ribble BC took part in the CIVITAS SUCCESS European Project. The PTP programme at the time was one of the largest in the UK contacting 50,000 households between 2006 and 2008. The project resulted in significant modal shift and carbon savings. To find out more read:
Lancashire County Council's presentation on the project (new - Sept 2009)
Personal Travel Planning Practitioners Guide (DfT)
Lancashire PTP Project Summary (DfT) (Now slightly out of date)
Manchester City Council Environmental Business Pledge Scheme has
engaged with over 1300 businesses of all sectors and sizes within
the Manchester area, offering on-site support to identify and
realise raw material and energy savings, enabling the strengthening
of supply chains, the safeguarding of sales and jobs along with
saving over 2000 tonnes of CO2 emissions and over ½ million
litres of water.
W4E was a project initiated by three Manchester-based organisations
with the aim to deliver locally relevant messages about climate
change to a deprived area of South Manchester, Wythenshawe. From
the outset, the project was designed and delivered by the people of
Wythenshawe, working alongside artists, experts and partners and
because of this a sense of long-term ownership was created,
reaching far beyond the scope of short-term projects delivered by
external agencies. In total the project saved 6,972 kg of CO2 but
more importantly locally relevant messages were produced for people
living in one of the most deprived areas of the UK.
NI 188
Eco Cities is a joint initiative between the University of
Manchester and Bruntwood, drawing on the expertise of the
Manchester Architecture Research Centre, Centre for Urban Regional
Ecology and Brooks World Poverty Institute. The project will focus
on the response of urban areas to the impacts of climate change,
looking particularly at how we can adapt our cities to the
challenges and opportunities that a changing climate presents.
For more information click on the link above.
CLASP is seeking adaptation and NI 188 case studies from the NW.
Please send any suggestions to ailsa@clasp-nw.info In the mean
time please see the following presentations from our events
series:
Nick Lowther, Salford City Council - "A City
Council's view of NI188"
Local Strategic Partnerships
Energy Saving Trust - Working In Partnership
This briefing note from the Energy Saving Trust contains a number of short case studies of effective actions local authorities have taken with local partnerships to tackle climate change.
Sustainable Development Commission Case Studies
A new set of case studies, co-published by the Sustainable
Development Commission (SDC) and the Improvement and Development Agency
(IDeA),
demonstrate how some local authorities and their partners are
tackling the challenge of putting sustainable development at the
heart of local decision-making processes.
Who? |
What? |
How? |
| Cornwall | Integrating sustainability into strategy development | Sustainable Community Strategy and LAA |
| Birmingham | Taking a lead on climate change and sustainable procurement | Sustainable Community Strategy and LAA |
| Cumbria | Building sustainability appraisal into local priority-setting | Partnership working and sustainability appraisal |
| Sutton Partnership | Creating a genuinely sustainable local vision | Sustainable Community Strategy |
| Gloucestershire | Making sustainable development a cross-cutting theme | Partnership working |
| Hounslow | Evaluating sustainability | Sustainability Standard Toolkit |
| Islington | Putting climate change at the heart of the LSP | Climate Change Partnership |
| Oldham | Overcoming historic obstacles to develop leadership on sustainability | Oldham Partnership |
| Leicester | Using climate change to establishing high-level commitment to sustainable development | Leicester Partnership |
| Dudley | Sustainability as a cross cutting theme for the next generation | LAA (NGLAA) |
| North Somerset Partnership | Towards integrating sustainable development | Sustainable Community Strategy and LAA |
Beacon Councils
The national Beacon Councils have prepared some top tips and lessons on how to deliver improvement across this service area.
Each one contains enough for you to understand their approach, the steps taken, and positive outcomes. The authorities are happy to provide further information to help you achieve improvement too.
Service delivery case studies
City of London
Climate change projects - on City of London's website. Learn about City of London's other climate change related projects.
Eastleigh Borough Council
CarbonFREE - CarbonFREE is a local fund for local people aimed at sustainable energy projects in their homes and community buildings.
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
Community awareness - The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham has developed a climate change strategy and have organised a series of awareness raising events with a number of local age and faith groups.
Middlesbrough Council
Climate Change: Community Action Plan - on Middlesbrough Council's website. The Community Action Plan sets a framework to tackle climate change through actions of mitigation, adaptation, education and commitment to coordinating the programme
Woking Borough Council
Tackling fuel poverty - Woking recognises fuel poverty as a serious obstacle to the health and well-being of many households in the borough.
Engaging minority communities - Woking has sought to include different community groups in the decision-making process about how they should address climate change.
Worcestershire County Council
Adaptation Wizard - On the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) website. Worcestershire used the UKCIP Adaptation Wizard as part of its planning for a new school building. Red Hill School opened in June 2007 and was one of the first schools in the country to be designed to be 'climate resilient'.
Worcestershire's Climate change strategy - on Worcestershire County Council's website.
Case studies - on Worcestershire County Council's website.
Application case studies
As part of the beacon application process, each applicant authority is required to submit a case study detailing the excellent work for which they are seeking beacon status. Read the case studies from each of the successful authorities within this theme:
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
How you can help
Everyone in the Northwest has an important part to play in tackling climate change. Click here to find out what your business, household, community or school can do to help.
