It believes local authorities hold the key to radical improvement and will warn that without their leadership, improvements would be “piecemeal at best”.
” We owe it to our local electorate to make clear to everyone that if councils take a central role in managing and improving the environment in a local area then a real transformation can be achieved.“
– Cllr Paula Baker, LGA
The new campaign is designed to enable councils to change the face of the environment across the country, the Association said, and will be unveiled at an LGA event next week.
The Greening Communities campaign will demonstrate that local authorities are the only organisation which can join-up environmental management locally in a meaningful way, link it to wider priorities like promoting health and reducing crime, and actually make a difference.
Launch
Greening Communities will be launched by Cllr Paula Baker at the LGA conference centre on Monday, alongside guest speaker Ben Bradshaw MP, Minister for Local Environment.
Cllr Paula Baker, deputy chair for the LGA's Environment Board, said: “All aspects of environmental management – energy & climate change, waste and material resources, streetscene & public space, air quality, soil, biodiversity, water – are managed in a fragmented way, even though they are intrinsically linked to one another. This is a lost opportunity!
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“We owe it to our local electorate to make clear to everyone that if councils take a central role in managing and improving the environment in a local area then a real transformation can be achieved. It is simply impossible to imagine without leadership. There are too many agencies and organisations involved,” Cllr Baker said.
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