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Email: sustainability@scambs.gov.uk (This link will open in a new window)
About these pages
- The Low-Carbon Living pages have just been launched and are currently under review. You are welcome to send your comments to sustainability@scambs.gov.uk (This link will open in a new window)
Our Partners
- South Cambridgeshire's Environment Group
Help address the issues and monitor the progress of the Community Strategy, which contains a series of actions to help improve the quality of life across the district and that tackle climate change.
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Climate Change Network
A cross-sectoral partnership providing support to public and private sector organisations as well as local communities seeking to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
- South Cambridgeshire Strategic Partnership
The South Cambridgeshire Strategic Partnership (or LSP: Local Strategic Partnership) is a partnership between the council and various partners to work together towards achieving economic, environmental and social standards for the district.
Dry Drayton
The Dry Drayton Green Group (This link will open in a new window) aims to encourage local people to do more to help counter global warming and the effects of climate change. The group shares information about what can be done locally, encourages and supports individual residents in taking action, and aims to work together to create new carbon reduction projects in the village. The Green Group was set up in April 2007.
The Green Group is an informal village organisation, with a small planning team of local residents. The intention is to work closely with all the village groups and associations. Links have also been made with other local Climate Change initiatives, particularly Histon & Impington Climate Change Action group, e-Coton group and Sustainable Girton. People from surrounding villages have been welcomed to the public meetings in the village.
The Green Group actively encouraged the participation by Dry Drayton Parish Council in the Sustainable Parish Energy Partnership (SPEP), and it has works in collaboration to develop the scheme locally. The loan of electricity monitors has been organised and awareness is being raised about opportunities for residents to improve household insulation.
Action to date includes the following.
- A Green Page is published regularly in the Village Newsletter and on the village website
- Public meetings have been held in the Village Hall, starting with a showing of the Al Gore film, An Inconvenient Truth. Subsequent topics have included Energy Use in the Home, Waste and Recycling, Food and Climate Change, The Age of Stupid film, Solar Water Heating - the Dry Drayton experience
- A Dry Drayton Carbon Footprint Calculator was prepared and circulated, in printed and spreadsheet form.
- In Autumn 2008 the Green Group carried out a survey of energy use and residents' priorities in the village, using a 10% sample of households. This was done in conjunction with the preparation of the Dry Drayton Village Plan
- The Green Group has introduced local recycling of batteries and long life bulbs, with the village hall as a collection point. It has provided information on other recycling possibilities and on the availability of local farm shops and farmers' markets
