Issue - meetings

Following information on the Rural Community Energy Fund received via Chorley Council a suggestion to install a solar farm on a reservoir in the Heapey parish was put forward.

As a project of this nature is way beyond the resources of a small parish council, the Parish Council wonders whether there is a possibility of Chorley Council leading on a project of this nature which might also involve other rural parishes?

An update on the work of the Overview and Scrutiny Task Group into Developing the Council’s Green Agenda will be given at the meeting. 

A verbal update on the work of the Overview and Scrutiny Task Group was given.  The report will be presented to the Executive Cabinet in March, but it was noted that the recommendations proposed should be treated as the beginning of a process of change rather than an end.

Update

The report can be found here: https://democracy.chorley.gov.uk/mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=76193

Following information on the Rural Community Energy Fund received via Chorley Council a suggestion to install a solar farm on a reservoir in the Heapey parish was put forward.

As a project of this nature is way beyond the resources of a small parish council, the Parish Council wonders whether there is a possibility of Chorley Council leading on a project of this nature which might also involve other rural parishes?

Response: The Council is currently undertaking an Overview and Scrutiny Inquiry into “Developing the Council's Green Agenda”.  Members of the Liaison may wish to contribute a written submission of steps Parish Councils are taking to address climate change and how they think the council can help them.

Following information on the Rural Community Energy Fund received via Chorley Council, a suggestion to install a solar farm on a reservoir in the Heapey Parish was put forward by the Parish Council. The representative from Heapey Parish was unable to attend the meeting at short notice and it was therefore agreed that this would be discussed at the next meeting in January.

Members of the Liaison were advised that the Council was undertaking an Overview and Scrutiny Inquiry into “Developing the Council’s Green Agenda”. The Task Group were keen to recognise the steps Parish Councils were taking to address climate change and to understand how the council could help them. Any contributions via written submission were welcomed.

Cllr Steve Holgate, Chair of the Task Group, who was present at the meeting reminded everyone of the importance of the Task Group and that the Parish Council’s be consulted as part of the inquiry. It was agreed that the Parish/Town Councils would be written out to regarding this.