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Cabinet Member for Green City & Environment

Cllr Steve Leggett

Portfolio

• Green City Charter, Climate Change & Carbon

Reduction, Air Quality & Sustainability

• Parks, Green Infrastructure & Biodiversity
• Flood Risk & Coastal Erosion
• Fuel Poverty, Citizen Energy & Energy Strategy
• Fleet, EV, Infrastructure & Street Lighting
• Cemeteries, Crematorium & Registration Services
• Communities and Social Cohesion

Green City

Air Quality and Health

• 40K deaths/year attributed to NOx & PM (29K)
• Southampton: 110 deaths/year due to PM
• Costs to services, business, society and NHS £30bn per year
• Evidence growing for impact on health including increased risk of lung

disease, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, neurological disorders.

• Most vulnerable in society most impacted by poor air quality
• World Health Organisation guideline value for annual NO2 of 40µg/m3
• Road transport is recognized as the most significant contributor in UK

cities.

Causes of pollution in Southampton

Clean Air Strategy (CAS) 2016 - 2025

• Air monitoring network established with an air alert service
• 2015 SCC listed as having poor air pollution, CAS implemented in 2016
• Buses: Clean Bus Technology Fund – £2.7M to convert to Euro 6
• Taxis: Conversion to LEV incentive scheme
• Cycling: 2012-2017 £5M invested with a +32% in rides
• Model Shift: My Journey Program
• Events - Love To Ride, bike doctor, school workshops, cycle week etc.
• EV Strategy – Charge points, discounts for parking/tolls
• Working With Partners – Port, rail, ferry, haulage companies.

We have attracted £15M of investment since 2016 Air Pollution will have reduced by 24% in some parts of the city by 2020

Southampton City Council

Top Items Identified by the Consultation

500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000

Number of Respondents

Businesses

• inc. Port

Government Local Residents Environmental Groups Local Politicians Must keep focused on delivering compliance! Neighbouring LA’s

SCC assessed that a charging zone was not needed to achieve EU legal limits. Proposal to UK Government to achieve compliance was package of non- charging measures.

Private travel  £2.7M being invested in cycle infrastructure  Financial support for MyJourney Programme Buses  Introduction of city Traffic Regulation Condition  £2.7M invested in low emission retrofit technology Taxis  Licensing condition to require Euro 6  Extended taxi incentive scheme  Try before you buy scheme  Dedicated rapid chargers Road Freight  Subsidy for use of Distribution Centre  Free Delivery Service Planning for local business  HGV accreditation scheme to promote best practice in low emission haulage Port Measures  Shore side power  Road freight booking system - Penalties for most polluting vehicles in peak hours Evaluation and Monitoring  Routine fleet survey  Additional monitoring locations

Climate Change and Rising Sea Levels!

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Stakeholder Engagement

• 1. Online suggestion box (105).
• 2. A People’s Panel Poll (973) asking respondents to prioritise

potential actions for the Green City Charter to get feedback from a wide range of members of the public.

• 3. Engagement session with the Youth Forum (18).
• 4. Engagement sessions with key stakeholders (Businesses,

Academics & Green Groups).

• 5. Clean Air Zone Consultation (9309) analysis. There were a

number of points raised within the responses to the consultation that can help feed into the development of Green City Charter

Green City Charter

Reduce waste & pollution Minimise the impact of climate change Stop health inequalities Create a more sustainable approach to economic growth SCC is the largest landlord, landowner, vehicle fleet & energy consumer! Capital Programme £60M over next 5 years!

Green City Charter The Vision

Our vision is to create a cleaner, greener, healthier and more sustainable city. Southampton will be a better place for present and future generations that is prepared for the challenges presented by climate

• change. We will achieve this by ensuring we are

ambitious, lead by example and set

• urselves

challenging goals.

Green City Charter Goals

• 1. We want to be carbon neutral by 2030;
• 2. We will take actions that will improve the quality of life in our city. We want the Healthy

Life Expectancy Indicator to be the best amongst our peers and to remove the difference cities like Southampton experience with rural areas in terms of deaths attributed to air pollution;

• 3. We will work in partnership – share our knowledge and inspire others;
• 4. We will protect and enhance our natural environment;
• 5. We will make the best use of our resources, reduce our energy consumption, minimise

waste and ensure we repair, reuse and recycle;

• 6. We will encourage, promote and incentivise the use of sustainable and active travel;
• 7. We will reduce emissions and aspire to satisfy World Health Organisation air quality

guideline values. By 2025 we want to see nitrogen dioxide levels of 25 μg/m3 as the norm;

• 8. We will use energy that is generated from renewable sources and support the generation
• f sustainable energy that does not compromise local air quality;
• 9. We will use services and products that support our vision. We are committed to

delivering on these commitments.

Green City Charter

Clean Air Strategy Citizen Energy Company My Journey Sustainable Travel Electric Vehicle Action Plan Direct Carbon Reduction Plan Indirect Carbon Reduction Plan Biodiversity Fuel Poverty Action Plan

2019 Clean Air Strategy Refresh

• Taxis: Current 27% LEV, target 40% by 2020 & 75% ULEV/LEV by 2023
• Buses: 100% Euro 6 by 2020, introduction of new traffic regulation.
• Cycling Infrastructure: £25M to be invested over next 10 years
• HGVs: Ramp up DSP/SDC (MGL) & introduce accreditation Scheme
• Model Shift: My Journey Program – Air quality workshop/Go Jauntley
• Council’s fleet: 42 EVs by 2020 (£800K), RCVs to Euro 6 (£2.9M)
• Partners: ABP, Carnival, DPW, Red Funnel, Airport, Universities, Hospitals
• Events - Love To Ride, no car day in 2019, cycle week etc.

We have attracted in 2019 a further £4.5M of investment Nitrogen Dioxide 40ug/m3 by 2020, 25ug/m3 by 2025

Southampton City Council

Carbon Dioxide + Other Greenhouse Gases

33% 27% 18% 18% 4%

2018 Total CO2 in the UK 364.1Mt + 84.4Mt other Greenhouse Gases

Transport Energy Business Residential Other

Source: Department for Business, Energy & Industry Strategy (2018)

SCC CO2 targets v actuals for commercial buildings/streetlighting gas and electricity consumption based emissions.

What is the Clean Growth Fund?

Green City Charter Commitment Carbon Neutral by 2030 Financial & Delivery model - Resources, energy efficiency, onsite renewable energy generation and battery storage Reduce impact and control future energy cost rises Revenue savings Clean Growth Fund

Why Clean Growth Fund?

• SCC’s electricity prices have risen by almost 100% in 8 years.
• Forecasts suggest a similar rise in the coming years
• Annual non domestic electricity and gas costs £4.5million
• 8,000 tonnes of CO2 from SCC’s non-domestic buildings

and streetlighting gas and electricity use

• Currently insufficient resource to deliver wide scale energy

efficiency or renewables projects

Why this approach?

Solar Power Battery Storage Energy efficiency

• EV charging

if required

Southampton’s Urban Forest

• 267K Trees v 254K People
• 18.5% Tree Cover
• 103 Tree Species (Oak,

Sycamore and Holly)

• 90 tonnes of pollution

(NO2, O3, SO2, CO & PM2.5) filtered per/yr

• 95 M litres of rainfall

intercepted

• Carbon: removes 2,7K

& stores 100K+ tonnes

• Financial benefit to

residents £1.29M

• Replacement cost is

£3.2Billion

Green Infrastructure

Urban Energy Southampton District Energy Scheme

Over 800 residential customers

11,000 Tonnes of

CO2 saved annually

26MW of

thermal generation

1.6Km deep

geothermal well

70,000,000 kwh of

energy generated p.a.

45 Commercial

Customers

1760 Student

bed spaces

14MW of

chilling generstion

MyJourney

CitizEn Energy

• Not for profit – no shareholders!
• Energy customers not getting a fair deal from the market
• Born from a political commitment to:
• provide a fair deal for residents
• tackle fuel poverty – currently stands at 12K households
• help fund the delivery of energy projects within the community
• Working other Local Authorities in the South

Electricity is 100% green energy from UK Wind & Solar Farms.

Fuel Pover verty

Rising fuel prices Poor energy efficiency Low income

Where poor housing conditions & low income mean that a household cannot adequately heat their home

Fuel Poverty Action Plan

• Working with The Environment Centre & CAB
• Access to free, independent & confidential advice
• 2016-2019: 3275 households assisted & >£420K of

unclaimed benefits secured

• Carbon Offset Fund & Green Projects budget
• Current Target homes to Energy Performance

Certificate (EPC) band G (2022) F (2025).

• New Target homes to Energy Performance Certificate

(EPC) band C.

Electric Vehicle Action Plan (EVAP)

• 100% discount on

Itchen toll bridge

• 90% reduction on

season ticket car parks

• Taxi incentive scheme

to convert to ULEV

• Blue Motion ‘Try

before you buy’

• Rapid chargers
• Charging

infrastructure roll out

• Free to charge
• Since launch: +60% Q
• n Q in use and +100%

in number of users.

• Limited picture
• ABP, Airport, West

Quay, UoS, Energie.

EV Charging Infrastructure

Year Phase Locations Public EVCP Fleet EVCP 17/18 1 6 x 5 MCSP 30 1 18/19 2 City Depot 30 15 18/19 3 SCP - Woolston 38 15 18/19 4 Civic Centre 38 16 19/20 4 SCP - Bitterne 46 16 19/20 5 SCP – City Centre 64 16 19/20 6 Residential 85 16 19/20 6 Council Depots 85 30

Red Lodge Holly Lodge Riverside Mayfield Sports Centre Chapel Rd, Central Depot East Park Yard 2 charge points 2 charge points 2 charge points 2 charge points 2 charge points 2 charge points 2 charge points

Phase 6 – Council depots

Locations – 37 Public EVCPs – 85 Fleet EVCPs - 30 Q2 2019/2020

Working with our Partners

Biodiversity

• Falcon nesting project
• 16 Species of Bat
• Cross city pollinating
• Bug and bee boxes
• Marlhill Copse
• Green Grid
• Schools workshop
• HRA Capital planting