Focus Areas

Natural Basingstoke – protecting and promoting bio-diversity and nature conservation within our borough

Low Carbon Basingstoke – practical steps to reduce CO2 emissions in the borough and tackle fuel poverty, e.g.:

  • Energy conservation
  • Renewable energy
  • Sustainable transport
  • Carbon footprint reduction (individual and corporate)
  • Reducing pollution

Resourceful Basingstoke – improving awareness and use of local resources, e.g.:

  • Resilience and skills
  • Recycling, re-using and reducing
  • Organic farming and permaculture
  • Water and wastewater
  • Tackling issues of consumption and consumerism

Habitable Basingstoke – promoting plans to build sufficient sustainable housing in a pleasant environment for our children, e.g.:

  • Low-consumption housing by design
  • Sustainable building materials
  • Natural health and wellbeing
  • Tackling litter, dumping and casual damage to environment
  • Education, culture and community towards a sustainable environment

Just Basingstoke – ensuring that everyone thrives and benefits from the improvements to our town and community

Enterprising Basingstoke – promoting public and private investment in, and use of, local schemes and enterprises to address all the above themes.