Winchester Action on Climate Change

Winchester Action on Climate Change (WinACC) is pleased to announce that Warrens Commercial Office Supplies, the well known local stationery and office supplies company, is the first business in the district to become an Associate Member of the organisation.

Congratulations and welcome to Bishop’s Waltham parish council - the first parish council to join WinACC. We look forward to the others signing up soon.  The first ever meeting of parish and town councils in Winchester on climate change was organised by WinACC and Winchester City Council on behalf of the Winchester District Strategic Partnership on 23 April.  People from 11 parish councils listed a great many things that parish councillors can do – from cutting the parish’s own energy use to influencing public opinion in their parish by demonstrating their own commitment to tackling the challenge of climate change.

Chris Holloway started working full-time for WinACC at the start of May. She says, “I am looking forward to getting to know WinACC’s members and supporters and finding out how to work with everyone to cut Winchester’s carbon footprint.” You can reach her on chris.holloway@winacc.org.uk, or on the office phone on 01962 827083.

There must be hundreds of small businesses that could benefit from Energy Grant 500.  Through Business Link, SEEDA is offering Energy Grant 500 to raise awareness of energy usage in small businesses and up to £500 to implement changes that reduce energy costs and carbon footprints.  Find out more.

WinACC's leaflet for 2009 is now available. If you'd like to receive copies to give out to your friends, family and contacts, contact co-ordinator@winacc.org.uk

Following reflection on last year's achievements and consultation with WinACC members, supporters and stakeholders, the WinACC Plan for 2009-2010 has now been approved by the Management Group.Click here to read the plan.

WinACC is looking to recruit bloggers for its new blogging facility on the WinACC website - if you can write an email then you can write a blog. Please contact Claire Jones mert0311@hotmail.com to find out more and start blogging.

St Bede’s primary school in Winchester is delighted to announce that it has achieved the Bronze Eco Schools Award. This has been achieved through the hard work of the school’s sustainability action team which has been led by two parents – WinACC supporters Hazel Agombar and Debbie Lockett, and has involved a number of staff from across the school. For further information, contact Hazel Agombar, hazel@agombar.co.uk.

Winchester Action on Climate Change (WinACC)  and the University of Winchester feature in a new publication from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).   The publication Growing by Degrees is about the future of higher education and is designed to provoke debate about how the sector should develop.  It starts from the recognition that universities are part of an international market and that their growth has huge impacts on towns and cities. Growing by Degrees offers twelve future scenarios each projecting twenty years into the future to ask ‘what if’ certain patterns of change take hold.

The Winchester City Council’s Local Development Framework (LDF) Core Strategy will set the ‘spatial strategy’ for the District over the next 20 years and provide ‘strategic’ policies and allocations to deliver the strategy. Once adopted, the Core Strategy sets the direction for other documents within the LDF.