Climate Matters: Transport for All - Electric Vehicles, Buses and Footpaths
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Presentations and discussion on 4 March 2024.Transport for All Presentation (pdf)
4th March 2024
Landulph Parish Council supports Cornwall Council’s initiative to declare a joint Climate and Ecological Emergency. The commitment is to become carbon neutral by 2030 and to protect, conserve and grow Cornwall’s eco-systems to ensure a fully sustainable low carbon future for Cornwall.
Landulph Parish Council Climate Change Statement of Intent
The Parish Council has set up a small sub-group made up of parish councillors and parishioners to encourage individuals to make changes to reduce their impact on the environment. This page summarises the recommendations of the group and provides links to further information. If you are interested in contributing to the sub-group please contact:
Katherine Williams, Clerk to the Parish Council
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Presentations and discussion on 4 March 2024.Transport for All Presentation (pdf)
4th March 2024
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The importance of a nature rich environment is not lost on anyone living in Landulph but are you aware of the sheer number of Bat species we have flying at dusk and dawn around our gardens and roofs?2nd March 2024
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The Wednesday Shopper Hopper from Cargreen to Carkeel shops will in future be operated by Saltash Red Bus. This service leaves the junction of Fore Street and Coombe Lane at 11:00 and leaves Waitrose on the return at 13:00 every Wednesday. The cost is £3 - bus passes are not valid. The hopper may be hailed on route via Landulph Cross, Wayton and Stockton Barns.March 2024 details for Saltash Red Bus Trips (pdf)
28th February 2024
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Presentations and discussion on 5 February 20245th February 2024
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We have now simplified our name to Landulph Climate Group (LCG for short), mainly to stop us getting in a muddle over too many initials. The new name also aligns us with our Instagram account (landulphclimategroup) and reflects our wider remit that includes both the Climate and Ecological Emergency declared by Cornwall Council. Thanks to Gill Mannings Cox, we also have a lovely new logo.26th January 2024
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Butterflies, beavers, food security and climate change.... so much debate, we can’t think straight! Food production depends on a healthy environment. But the UK is one of the most nature depleted countries in the world – in 75 years we have lost over 75,000 miles of hedgerows and 97% of wildflower meadows. Forty million birds have gone since the mid-1960s. Our flying insect population has declined by 60% in just 20 years.16th November 2023
15th November 2023
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This week Landulph Climate Group are pleased to announce the winners of our Summer Public Transport competition:Public Transport Competition Entry Form (pdf)
Bus Timetable for Landulph (pdf)
19th September 2023
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To build links with our neighbours and share experiences, Landulph Climate Group, visited Here Ferrers and met representatives from the Parish Council.18th September 2023
17th July 2023
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Steep, deep green and secret – that’s how temperate rainforests are imagined. Landulph is lucky: ours are easy to find and easily accessible. Landulph has all the ingredients needed for a rainforest to flourish; a warm south-westerly prevailing wind keeps our temperatures comparatively high throughout the year. We have a notoriously high rainfall, keeping our multitude of springs running through most of the year. You can find seepage from those springs almost everywhere from the high ground down towards the watercourses. Those watercourses have cut deep hollows into the ground and if the greenery in those hollows has remained untamed for a long time, there’s the chance for a rainforest to grow.20th May 2023
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In April 2023, LPCAG reevaluated our priorities for the next year - we all agreed that our priorities of Biodiversity and Transport would continue for another year with Biodiversity renamed to Nature Recovery as this more accurately reflects what we want to achieve. Other topic headings include Energy, Youth Engagement, Local Community and Networking. We will maintain Recycling with a view to prioritising this topic in 2024 to coincide with changes in Cornwall County Council’s waste management services. The chart above illustrates the activities we have completed so far this year against our prioritiesStrategic Intent and Progress 2022/23
4th April 2023
10th March 2023
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I can identify with the dragonfly. We require water to drink, food to eat and a place to rest and be secure. Looking around our garden, I see very few dragonflies because it offers none of the above. It needs a body of water with some plants in it. Kidney-shaped or round, deep or shallow, wild or formal; anything will attract beetles, newts, tadpoles and dragonflies. A forever changing landscape to sit and watch whilst drinking a cup of tea.10th March 2023
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Landulph Parish Council has recently purchased a FLIR One Pro thermal camera for LPCAG to use. This thermal camera combines an ordinary digital picture with an infrared picture so that you can see temperature differences represented by colour shading combined with an outline of the background. Thermal cameras have many uses but LPCAG will be using it to help residents in our local community identify cold spots in their homes. Once identified, simple insulation (eg draft excluders or extra loft insulation) targeted at these cold spots can keep your home warmer and save on heating costs.18th January 2023
5th December 2022
5th November 2022
16th July 2022
18th May 2022
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Saving electricity is good for your purse and good for the environment. We all use lots of electrical appliances but do you know which appliances use the most electricity? The Energy Saving Trust now estimate (in January 2021) that washing appliances use the most electricity particularly if you heat your water by electricity and use a tumble drier; but this obviously depends on your household. When you need to buy a new appliance, be aware that the energy labelling has changed in March 2021 to a simple A to G scale (A is the most efficient).13th November 2021
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25th May 2021
3rd March 2021
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Switching to LED light bulbs in your house reduces your carbon footprint and saves you money.Typically LED light bulbs use a lot less electricity than ordinary light bulbs (saving £2 - £7 per bulb per year) and last a lot longer (at least 5 times longer).Switching to LED lights in your house could reduce your carbon footprint per year by 63kg and if we all swapped, we would save 1.7 million tonnes annually.3rd March 2021
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Nothing guzzles carbon like a tree; woodland in the UK captures 20 million tonnes of CO2 annually and a study by Defra's science department, Forest Research, says soils store most carbon - a massive 72% of a wood's total. Native woods have other benefits: they enrich the soil, shelter livestock, reduce floodwater runoff, increase biodiversity, produce fruit crops and improve people's mental health all while storing carbon.13th January 2021
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Something that we can all do something about is about WASTE - and how we can reduce it.13th January 2021
6th February 2023
17th January 2022
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During the summer, LPCAG asked the parish about climate change (see questionnaire). 37 people responded and thought climate change was concerning but were worried about different issues.30th June 2021
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To become carbon- neutral we need to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide we produce and capture the carbon dioxide we do produce to prevent it entering the atmosphere. In this way our impact on the planet will support a positive future for everyone. To achieve this target, businesses, residents and organisations in Cornwall need to work in partnership with Cornwall Council to tackle carbon emissions in the areas illustrated in the diagram above.13th January 2021