Southwark Council is asking locals to share their views on climate change as it draws up its Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation Strategy.
The draft strategy sets out its plans to protect communities, homes, infrastructure, and the environment from the physical impacts of climate change.
The strategy has already outlined plans to improve air quality, biodiversity and use flood alleviation schemes.
Councillor James McAsh, Cabinet Member for the Climate Emergency, Clean Air and Streets, said: “We must prepare for an uncertain future.
“We cannot sit back and wait for the worst to happen before taking urgent action to protect local people – particularly the most vulnerable – from the real impacts of a changing climate.
“While significant work has gone on locally to strengthen our resilience including improved flood alleviation schemes and changes to planning policy, we need every corner of the community to get behind the strategy and provide their contributions to how we can better protect people and place”.
The consultation began on August 29 and closes on October 9, 2023.
To read more about Southwark’s resilience and adaptation strategy, please visit the Southwark Council website.
Today, at a quarter past five – but 2½ hours before sunset – all sunshine will be blocked from older people’s homes at Hopton’s Almshouses by a 20-storey office tower on Blackfriars Road.
Southwark Council’s Planning Officer never once mentioned Grade II* Hopton’s Almshouses and never once mentioned its residents in his 36-page Report to the Planning Committee, despite the statutory obligation to assess impact on neighbours.
The 35-page ‘Daylight and Sunlight Report’ never once mentioned Hopton’s Almshouses and never once mentioned any sunshine being blocked from residents’ homes.
Blocking sunshine harms the sustainability of these old buildings which could harness solar energy, and harms older people’s ability to reduce sky-high energy bills.
The cause of all this harm to sustainability is primarily Southwark Council.