Greening communities

The Greening Communities campaign demonstrates the importance of local authority leadership on environmental issues and shows that local authorities are best placed to bring stakeholders together and link the environment to wider priorities such as health promotion and community safety.

This campaign kit is aimed at local authority elected members or officers who are interested in developing a campaign to improve their local environment and is made up of 12 leaflets which can help plan and implement a local greening our community campaign:

Campaign kit

Introduction to the campaign kit (PDF, 4 pages, 514KB)
how to get involved and sign up to be an 'Environment champion'.

A. Making the case - ideas for getting your campaign started and organised (PDF, 4 pages, 939KB)
B. Delivering social, economic and other corporate priorities (PDF, 4 pages, 336KB)
C. Putting together a ten-point plan (PDF, 4 pages, 126KB)

Ideas for action on specific environmental issues:

1. Energy and climate change (PDF, 4 pages, 110KB)
2. Material resources and waste (PDF, 4 pages, 167KB)
3. Air (PDF, 4 pages, 122KB)
4. Water (PDF, 4 pages, 170KB)
5. Soil (PDF, 4 pages, 248KB)
6. Biodiversity (PDF, 4 pages, 193KB)
7. Streetscene and public space (PDF, 4 pages, 118KB)

The pack also includes a sheet setting out the key campaign messages (PDF, 2 pages, 111KB) and explaining the main aspects of the campaign.

Why not download the LGA vision documents below outlining the importance of work on these issues and signposting what local authorities are already doing: