Community planning: Low Carbon Communities
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Low Carbon Neighbourhoods –
what are they and how do we get there?


Principles

The basic principles of community planning for low carbon communities are to create: The four pillars of household and neighbourhood resource efficiency: Carbon Neutral Neighbourhoods (CNN’s ) are created by: Starting points and routes

There are a variety of ways in which the journey to a low carbon community can be started and many routes are possible – depending on local circumstances:
  • A community-led carbon reduction component is added to an existing neighbourhood development or regeneration programme;

  • Reducing fuel bills and carbon emissions is the issue around which new community-led neighbourhood initiatives start and develop as the basis of a wider neighbourhood development or regeneration programme;

  • Reducing carbon emissions is built in as a core component of a statutory community-led Neighbourhood Plan.

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Thanks:
This page partly funded by the Department for Communities and
Local Government, 2011.





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Nick Wates Associates



Last updated on:13 January 2012