How we’re progressing rolling out our plans to be zero carbon by 2030 will be the subject of a report to scrutiny on Wednesday (21.06.23) and it shows a wide range of projects that have been completed or are planned for the future as part of our Decarbonisation Plan.
The report shows projects such as the installation of solar panels on leisure centres, delivering local water conservation and protection education, increasing woodland cover and engage communities in woodland development, management and restoration and fully funded net two zero new build pilots for primary schools. There’s also plans for a mobility hub in the city centre
These are in addition to plans to install EV charging points across the county borough:
- Burton Terrace (Acrefair)
- Ael-y-Bryn (Brymbo)
- Crane Street (Cefn Mawr)
- Colliery Road (Pwll Y Waun off Colliery Road- Chirk),
- High Street (Coedpoeth)
- High Street (Glyn Ceiriog)
- Church Road (Overton)
- Chapel Street (Ponciau)
- Park Street (Rhosddu)
- Jones Street (Rhosllanerchrugog)
- School Street (Rhosllanerchrugog)
- Market Street (Rhosllanerchrugog)
- Station Road (Rhostyllen)
- Chapel Street (Rhosymedre)
- High Street (Rhosymedre)
- Station Road (Rossett)
- MaesyLlan Lane (Ruabon)
- Ruabon Station (Ruabon)
- Top Road (Summerhill)
- Erddig Road (Wrexham)
- Victoria Road (Wrexham)
- Manley Road (Wrexham)
- Whitegate Car park (Wrexham)
- Rhos Library (Rhos).
In his report to councillors, Climate Change Champion, Cllr David A BIthell, outlines the progress against five key themes:
- Buildings and Energy
- Transport and Mobility
- Land Use and Green Infrastructure
- Procurement (how we order our goods and services
- Influencing and enabling change
Senior officers have been nominated to undertake a leadership role for each of the themes to ensure that
decarbonisation is embedded into everything we do and oversee progress.
We continue to work with partners and have just announced our Five Low Carbon Communities initiative and we’ll work closely over the coming year or more to see what impact consistent and community generated activity can achieve. We’ll identify a working group and start a series of community engagement events in the coming months to design a low carbon community plan for each area.
Cllr David A Bithell, Climate Change Champion, said, “There’s no doubt an awful lot of hard work has gone in by officers to progress the work on a council wide basis but also to work within our communities on the many projects that they have completed or are in the process of completing.
“It won’t be easy achieving our goal of being carbon neutral by 2030 but the work undertaken to date shows that our commitment is growing. With even more community support and education in the pipeline the future is looking good.”
“I look forward to presenting the report on Wednesday.”
You can watch the webcast of the Homes and Environment Scrutiny Committee online or read the report in more detail.
