Chipping Norton Town Council is committed to reducing our carbon footprint and has ambitious aims to reduce our impact on the climate. Some of the ways we have responded include:
- Chipping Norton Town Council has signed the Climate Emergency Declaration. In our offices and work spaces, we are actively exploring ways in which we can reduce our carbon footprint and reduce waste. Some of the active ways we have responded include: by reducing the amount we print by having our meeting reports and papers available online and encouraging Councillors to bring laptops and tablets to meetings, and by encouraging staff to commute to work via green means via joining the Cyclescheme. As statutory consultees on planning applications within the Parish boundaries, when responding to planning consultations the Town Council advocates that they are fully consistent with national conservation policy, the protection of SSSI’s and enhancing habitat for native species; and the Town Council opposes planning applications which propose development on land that may be affected by future climate impacts (such as flooding) or may increase run off.
- The Town Council in partnership with PAN-UK have embarked on a three-year phase-out plan to reduce the use of pesticides and weedkillers in the spaces that we maintain.
- As of April 2025, we have brought the grounds maintenance of the spaces the Town Council maintains in-house by establishing a new Grounds Maintenance team. As a part of this programme, the Town Council has sourced electric lawnmowers from Mean Green mowers, an electric van, and electric hand tools to support the team. As this service enters its first year of service, we will be looking to continue on with the programme of work set out by PAN-UK to reduce our use of pesticides and weedkillers and look to expand areas of wildflower meadows within our green spaces to help encourage biodiversity.
Local initiatives in Chipping Norton:
- Chippy Larder: Reducing food waste and items sent to landfill
- Transition Chipping Norton
- Electric car charging at New St car park
- Zimbl electric car share club, based in Chipping Norton
Further information:
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Find out how to prepare your home or business for flooding and how to respond in a flood. If you have had sandbags for recent flooding consider keeping them for reuse. Oxfordshire County Council’s Flood Toolkit is also available online.
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