Decision details
Staffordshire Sustainability Board Update
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
To provide an update from the Staffordshire
Sustainability Board, namely the Staffordshire EV Charging Strategy
and the Staffordshire Carbon Communications Plan.
Decisions:
Report of the Leader of the Council and the Portfolio Holder for Skills, Planning, Economy and Waste to ask Cabinet to adopt the joint Staffordshire Sustainability Board Communications Plan 2023 which has been developed with the Staffordshire Sustainability Board in conjunction with all district and borough councils to help residents to reduce their carbon emissions and also to adopt the Staffordshire County Council Public Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy which has been developed in conjunction with all district and borough councils to help residents to transition to electric vehicles.
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That Cabinet
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Agreed to adopt the Staffordshire Sustainability Board joint communications plan (attached as Appendix 1 to the report), which sets out the 12-month programme of climate change awareness-raising and behaviour change activity,
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Agreed to adopt the Staffordshire County Council Public Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy;
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Endorsed that the Borough Council commissions a borough-wide bespoke strategy to provide a framework for making decisions around EV charging in Tamworth, is endorsed;
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Endorsed the EV Charging update on the installation of 4 fast charging points;
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Agreed to receive the Tamworth Borough Council EV Charging Strategy in its draft form before the end of 2023; and
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Agreed that the Installation of Charging Points within Tamworth is treated as a Cabinet Priority moving forward.
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(Moved by Councillor S Doyle and seconded by Councillor R Pritchard) |
Report author: Anna Miller
Publication date: 11/08/2023
Date of decision: 06/04/2023
Decided at meeting: 06/04/2023 - Cabinet
Accompanying Documents:
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