Environmental Policy

(To read Council's Environmental Reports visit our Climate / Sustainability / Environment Reporting section.)

In maintaining its responsibility to provide high quality services, Council recognises environmental management to be of equal importance to other prime management considerations. 

As such, we acknowledge that our activities and services impact, directly and indirectly, on the environment.

In this respect, Council accepts its obligation to minimise its environmental impacts through co-ordinated environmental management.

Council is committed to:

• Preventing pollution through efficient energy management, waste minimisation and efficient resource consumption;
• Responsible plastic management;
• Promoting environmental improvements throughout our Borough;
• Complying with relevant environmental legislation, regulations and appropriate sector best practice initiatives;
• Continual environmental performance improvement through setting and achieving realistic objectives and targets;
• Communicating this policy to all employees and those who work on our behalf; and
• Making this environmental policy available to interested parties, on request.

Council will implement and review this policy within the framework of a systematic environmental management system.