Local Initiatives
Tackling Climate Change in Bishops Tachbrook
Global warming is the biggest existential challenge we face. Greenhouse gases created from burning fossil fuel and methane from farm animals absorb heat that enables the atmosphere to hold more water vapour. Extreme weather events such as heavy rainfall and hotter summers and wildfires are becoming a lot more frequent.
Bishops Tachbrook Neighbourhood Plan Policy B12 echoes WDC’s Climate Emergency Action Plan objective: to protect the environment and ensure sustainability by reducing greenhouse gas emissions to as near zero as possible by 2030.
Bishops Tachbrook is not directly affected by flooding. However the built area comprises a very large number of new homes that has necessitated creating SUDS ponds in and near the Country Park to handle run-off water. Most important, the Country Park as well as providing a green recreation amenity, allotments and orchard, contributes to capturing CO2.
Climate change adaptation in Bishops Tachbrook includes planting trees around the Parish to sequester atmospheric CO2.
In addition there has been a successful clothes recycling programme and there are plans to set up a repair shop to mend and reuse all types of household items. (Details below)
Homes and transport are major producers of greenhouse gas. Exeter University Carbon Footprint impact calculator states the total territorial carbon footprint for the Bishops Tachbrook Parish in 2024 was approximately 52575 tons of CO2e per year and 23.5 tons of COe per household.
A home Retrofit Roadshow is planned for the autumn that will provide advice and support for making your home as energy efficient as possible. What’s more residents will be able to use a thermal imaging camera to identify heat loss around the house. The WDC thermal camera loan scheme will be available at the end of November. (Details below)
Protecting Bio diversity
Large-scale agriculture where hedges and trees are ripped out has reduced insect populations that are vitally important for pollinating crops and all plants. To overcome this, farmers are encouraged to have a wild flower strips in the there fields. Residents too are encouraged to have a wild flower area in their gardens. Multiplying this action across the country will have a huge effect in sustaining bio diversity.
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