Environmental Sustainability
This theme is about about ensuring that each area does all it can to live within environmental limits and takes action to avoid exceeding them.
The organisation of scientific enforcement services in Europe |
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![]() The Food Law Enforcement Practitioners group (FLEP) a sub group of the European Member State’s Food Standards Agencies asked Hampshire Scientific Service to lead a research team to investigate differences across the EU and recommend a way forward (Source - PBRS & IT) 2009/10 |
Campaign to Protect Rural England, Countryside & Design Award 2009 |
![]() A campaign to take a more ethnical policy on food in Hampshire, firstly by using free-range eggs from local industries to be used in schools. (Source - PBRS & IT) 2009/10 |
Effective delivery of environmental safety controls at Hampshire filling stations |
![]() To avoid duplicate visitis to filling stations to regulate vapour recovery and licence and maintain safety at petrol filling stations it was agreed that the districts would work together with the county to only visit once and not twice. (Source - PBRS & IT) 2009/10 |
Green environment and heritage conservation of Hampshire’s Countryside |
![]() Hampshire County Council began acquiring key sites back in the 1950’s as part of a then ground breaking approach to managing valuable areas of countryside for conservation and recreation. The fundamental reason behind providing these places for people, encompassing high quality sustainable management of areas of countryside and rights of way for everyone to enjoy, has not changed down the years. (Source - Environment) 2009/10 |
Cove Village, Farnborough – Community Mapping |
![]() Hampshire County Council refined its approach to public consultation on environmental improvement schemes by taking elements of a range of participation techniques and bringing them together in a process called Community Mapping. Through a series of open workshops, Community Mapping invited local people to identify the things they liked, disliked and what they would like to improve. It then asked the community to establish their priorities for action before engaging them in the design of environmental improvements. (Source - Environment) 2009/10 |
Hampshire Climate Change Commission of Inquiry |
![]() Hampshire’s Climate Change Commission of Inquiry was established by Ken Thornber, the Leader of Hampshire County Council with the aim of ensuring Hampshire’s communities understood the impact climate change had on their well-being. In addition to identifying climate change adaptation measures that will make Hampshire more resilient. (Source - Environment) 2009/10 |
Havant Cemetery |
![]() Havant Cemetery was restored using free labour provided by the Probation Service. (Source - Havant BC / Probation Service) 2009/10 |
CarbonFREE - reducing emissions in the Eastleigh area |
![]() Eastleigh Borough Council will become Carbon Neutral for its key business activities by the 2012 Olympics. They aim to reduce their CO2 emissions but also compensate for unavoidable emissions through CarbonFREE. (Source - Eastleigh Borough Council) 2009/10 |







