F1
Action
Seek resource to continue the Low Carbon Dorset programme to promote and bolster advice on deployment in Dorset.
Mission and sub-objective
1.3. Renewable Generation: Extend Low Carbon Dorset
2.3. Heat: Extend our retrofit advice & support offer
F2
Action
Encourage and enable community-led deployment.
Mission and sub-objective
1.3. Renewable Generation: Extend Low Carbon Dorset
F3
Action
Create a Local Area Energy Plan with key partners..
Mission and sub-objective
1.4. Renewable Generation: Influence strategic energy planning for a locally efficient and responsive grid.
F4
Action
Research opportunities for large-scale installation of low carbon heating and hydrogen generation and seek opportunities to pilot and test deployment (e.g., in social housing).
Mission and sub-objective
2.2. Heat: Identify opportunities in wider Dorset.
F5
Action
Further assist residents to decarbonise heating and improve energy efficiency through the Healthy Homes Dorset Scheme and targeted communications campaigns.
Mission and sub-objective
2.3. Heat: Extend our retrofit advice & support offer
3.3. Energy & Water Efficiency: Promote, deliver and enforce energy and water efficiency measures and behaviours
F6
Action
Enforce minimum energy efficiency standards in the private rental sector (with a focus on EPC certificates E & F without exemptions).
Mission and sub-objective
3.3. Energy & Water Efficiency: Promote, deliver and enforce energy and water efficiency measures and behaviours.
F7
Action
Work in partnership (e.g., with Registered Social Landlords or schools) to develop, deliver, trial and pilot generation, efficiency improvements, and innovative low carbon techniques (e.g., off-site manufacturing) for Dorset’s buildings – including hard-to-treat properties (e.g., those in conservation areas and listed buildings).
Mission and sub-objective
3.3. Energy & Water Efficiency: Promote, deliver and enforce energy and water efficiency measures and behaviours.
2.2. Heat: Identify opportunities in wider Dorset
F8
Action
Liaise with water companies to identify and eliminate water leaks on our estate and in Dorset.
Mission and sub-objective
3.3. Energy & Water Efficiency: Promote, deliver and enforce energy and water efficiency measures and behaviours
F9
Action
Prepare a new vision-led (decide and provide) joint Local Transport Plan (including a local 2050 net zero transport pathway) and supporting strategies, aligned with the Local Plan and regional priorities.
Mission and sub-objective
4.3. Transport: Embed infrastructure provision and modal shift in policy and strategy.
F10
Action
Improve the user experience by investing in active travel, public transport, shared mobility and integrated multi-modal services.
Mission and sub-objective
4.2. Transport: Enable modal shift and cut the need to travel for personal, commuting, business and logistics journeys.
F11
Action
Deliver campaigns and public health initiatives that engage, support, and influence to increase active travel, reduce the need to travel, and achieve other sustainable outcomes.
Mission and sub-objective
4.2. Transport: Enable modal shift and cut the need to travel for personal, commuting, business and logistics journeys
F12
Action
Embrace digital alternatives to travel and future mobility solutions that provide clear information across a range of travel modes and promote use of the most sustainable travel options.
Mission and sub-objective
4.2. Transport: Enable modal shift and cut the need to travel for personal, commuting, business and logistics journeys.
F13
Action
Continue to support greater deployment and strengthening of high-speed broadband/ ICT infrastructure in Dorset.
Mission and sub-objective
4.2. Transport: Enable modal shift and cut the need to travel for personal, commuting, business and logistics journeys
F14
Action
Deliver accelerated public EV charge-point deployment to create an accessible network across all of Dorset through the LEVI pilot and private sector investment, and seek funding to further expand EV and alternative fuel infrastructure
Mission and sub-objective
4.1. Transport: Accelerate electric vehicle and charging infrastructure deployment
F15
Action
Explore means of encouraging ULEVs through licensing.
Mission and sub-objective
4.1. Transport: Accelerate electric vehicle and charging infrastructure deployment
F16
Action
Ensure our rights of way network is promoted and maintained to a high standard and increase the provision of off-road routes.
Mission and sub-objective
4.2. Transport: Enable modal shift and cut the need to travel for personal, commuting, business and logistics journeys
F17
Action
Support local implementation of evolving regulations and standards for new low carbon technology – making Dorset a safe place to take advantage of green tech and giving public assurance around standards and safety.
Mission and sub-objective
1.2. Renewable Generation: Enable wider deployment.
2.3. Heat: Extend our retrofit advice & support offer
4.1. Transport: Accelerate electric vehicle and charging infrastructure deployment
F18
Action
Undertake research and mapping to enable planning policy in support of this strategy (e.g., on suitable renewables deployment sites, grid constraints, heat mapping, flood and erosion risks etc.)
Mission and sub-objective
1.2. Renewable Generation: Enable wider deployment through planning.
2.4. Heat: Enable deployment for new builds through planning.
4.3. Transport: Embed infrastructure provision and modal shift in policy and strategy.
5.1. Development: Encourage net zero new builds.
5.2. Development: Promote sustainable materials use & waste management.
5.3. Development: Protect and enhance our ecological network.
5.4. Development: Minimise climate risks.
F19
Action
Create a new Local Plan that ensures high standards of design, siting and construction of developments and effectively supports this strategy (including identifying renewable deployment sites and integrating with the Local Transport Plan on sustainable travel).
Mission and sub-objective
1.2. Renewable Generation: Enable wider deployment through planning.
2.4. Heat: Enable deployment for new builds through planning.
4.3. Transport: Embed infrastructure provision and modal shift in policy and strategy.
5.1. Development: Encourage net zero new builds.
5.2. Development: Promote sustainable materials use & waste management.
5.3. Development: Protect and enhance our ecological network.
5.4. Development: Minimise climate risks.
7.3. Food: Identify and implement opportunities to support more community growing.
8.1. Nature: Create and embed a Local Nature Recovery Strategy.
9.2. Resilience: Mainstream adaptation in our decision-making, wider policy and business continuity arrangements
F20
Action
Create and adopt planning guidance, tools, codes, and training to further support this strategy (e.g., on net zero homes standards, sustainable construction and materials use, walking and cycling, parking standards, ULEVs, travel plans, conservation-sensitive measures or sustainable drainage systems (SUDs.)
Mission and sub-objective
1.2. Renewable Generation: Enable wider deployment through planning.
2.4. Heat: Enable deployment for new builds through planning.
4.3. Transport: Embed infrastructure provision and modal shift in policy and strategy.
5.1. Development: Encourage net zero new builds.
5.2. Development: Promote sustainable materials use & waste management.
5.3. Development: Protect and enhance our ecological network.
5.4. Development: Minimise climate risks.
8.1. Nature: Create and embed a Local Nature Recovery Strategy.
9.2. Resilience: Mainstream adaptation in our decision-making, wider policy and business continuity.
F21
Action
Investigate and trial tools or methods on embodied carbon and whole-life costing.
Mission and sub-objective
5.1. Development: Encourage net zero new builds.
F22
Action
Ensure that applications fully consider climate, nature and resilience, and that there is effective internal consultation for their evaluation (e.g., with sustainability, waste and green infrastructure teams).
Mission and sub-objective
5.1. Development: Encourage net zero new builds.
5.2. Development: Promote sustainable materials use & waste management.
5.3. Development: Protect and enhance our ecological network.
5.4. Minimise climate risks
F23
Action
Revise and deliver the Dorset Municipal Waste Management Strategy to align to the Environment Act, and detail how we will continue to minimise waste, maximise recycling and embed a circular economy within Dorset (through policy, infrastructure, contractual and service requirements).
Mission and sub-objective
6.2. Waste: Manage Dorset’s waste at the highest feasible level of the waste hierarchy.
6.3. Waste: Transition towards a circular Dorset.
F24
Action
Deliver education/awareness projects and campaigns to encourage residents, businesses and schools to reduce, reuse and recycle waste and litter (e.g., on reusable nappies, composting, food waste, littering, and ‘right stuff in the right bin’).
Mission and sub-objective
6.2. Waste: Manage Dorset’s waste at the highest feasible level of the waste hierarchy.
7.4. Food: Support sustainable diets and the cutting of food waste
F25
Action
Support sourcing of local, nature positive, low carbon food produce by enabling community growing (e.g., orchards and allotments) and encouraging and enabling the retail of local produce.
Mission and sub-objective
7.3. Food: Identify and implement opportunities to support more community growing.
7.4. Food: Support sustainable diets and the cutting of food waste.
F26
Action
Promote nature-positive, low carbon farming, land and water management (e.g., by encouraging agri-environment scheme uptake, clustering, whole-farm advice, and facilitating private green finance opportunities).
Mission and sub-objective
7.2. Food: Facilitate low-emission and nature-positive agri-fisheries practices in Dorset.
8.3. Nature: Enable wider delivery
F27
Action
Promote positive ecosystem-based fisheries management and sustainable aquiculture.
Mission and sub-objective
7.2. Food: Facilitate low-emission and nature-positive agri-fisheries practices in Dorset.
8.3. Nature: Enable wider delivery
F28
Action
Develop a Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Dorset.
Mission and sub-objective
8.1. Nature: Create and embed a Local Nature Recovery Strategy.
F29
Action
Explore the potential for commercial carbon sequestration.
Mission and sub-objective
8.3. Nature: Enable wider delivery
F30
Action
Promote and create opportunities for nature-based health & wellbeing activities, including with Children's and Adult's Services.
Mission and sub-objective
8.3. Nature: Enable wider delivery
F31
Action
Engage and work with the Environment Agency, Police and other regulatory enforcement bodies to tackle pollutant risks and waste crime.
Mission and sub-objective
8.3. Nature: Enable wider delivery
F32
Action
Develop and implement an Air Quality Strategy for Dorse
Mission and sub-objective
8.3. Nature: Enable wider delivery
F33
Action
Assess Dorset’s vulnerability to climate change.
Mission and sub-objective
8.3. Nature: Enable wider delivery
F34
Action
Develop a partnership approach for Dorset-wide adaptation, linking with relevant structures and partners (like our Risk Management Authorities and Local Resilience Forum), and aligning with existing local flood and shoreline management approaches.
Mission and sub-objective
9.1. Resilience: Develop a partnership approach
F35
Action
Work with partners to support the provision of local green education and skills training
Mission and sub-objective
All missions
F36
Action
Promote Dorset's green economy and work with partners to attract investment, including developing Dorset Innovation Park as a centre of excellence and making Dorset a low-carbon tourism destination.
Mission and sub-objective
All missions
