1. The Parish Council and the Parish Plan Steering Group are working on ideas about how Rattery might take collective action in light of the climate emergency.
v Over the next few months, the various advisory groups will:
You could help by send us your ideas or joining one of the groups - the parish website has all the details. Or simply send an email to any of the parish councillors.- assess the current state of affairs;
- suggest things that the Parish Council and other bodies might do directly;
- ways to encourage and support action by individuals; and
- ways to lobby local/national government.
The aim is to have a clear plan of action early next year.
One thing we could do is to plant more trees in the parish. The UK national target is for 17% of landcover to be woodland by 2050. Currently 12% of the parish is woodland and to reach the national target we would need to plant 50 hectares of woodland - roughly 80,000 trees!
