One Planet Sutton

One Planet SuttonGreen Deal and the Big Society in Hackbridge and Sutton

Philippa WardPhilippa Ward

Head of One Planet Regions

BioRegional Development Group

What BioRegional doesWhat BioRegional does

• Based in BedZED – Hackbridge, London Borough of Sutton, south London

• Entrepreneurial charity trying to find local, replicable green solutionsfind local, replicable green solutions

• Brings together partners from bli d i t tpublic and private sector

• Works with the community to help them realise their vision of a resilient, healthy, happy place to liveresilient, healthy, happy place to live

One Planet Living and the 10 principlesOne Planet Living and the 10 principles

Our vision...Our vision...

One Planet Sutton is a community-driven vision to build a growing network of peoplevision to build a growing network of people

building a resilient green future. Together we are creating a place where local businesses thrive and people can lead healthy happythrive and people can lead healthy, happy lifestyles within a fair share of the Earth’s resources, something we call One Planet

Living.Living.

Local government commitmentLocal government commitment

© Fergus Burnett

London Borough of Sutton commits to One Planet Living in 2008• Council’s own operations

© Fergus Burnett

• Council s own operations• Making it easier for residents• 80,000 homes, 185,900 residents

www.oneplanetsutton.org

What is One Planet Sutton?What is One Planet Sutton?

Sutton Council(public sector)

Big businessLocal community and voluntary

groups (third sector)groups (third sector)

Local Strategic Partnership

(public sector)Local residents

BioRegional Local businessQuangos and

national (third sector)government

H0w we got hereH0w we got here

• 2007:Future Hackbridge vision • 2007: Hackbridge One Planet Surveys 7 g y‐ 124 participants and resulting in ecological footprint baseline. baseline.

• 2008: Hackbridge Week ‐ 22 community consultation events flyering and door knocking events, flyering and door knocking.

• 2009: first Hackbridge Community Forum and H kb id D l F d l t Hackbridge Developers Forum – developers, agents, landowners, GLA, BioRegional, Council


Working with businessWorking with business

GREENING BUSINESSES IN HACKBRIDGEIN HACKBRIDGE• European Regional Development Fund

k h ll bmoney to work with small businesses• 195 businesses engaged with and 45 worked 195 businesses engaged with and 45 worked with intensively over 2 yearsA h b t it b ildi b • As much about capacity‐building as carbon saving: Hackbridge Green Business network

Working with the community

ONE PLANET FOOD• £1 million partnership project working £1 million partnership project working towards One Planet diet

d d f l l d• Answering a demand from local residents• Result will be sustainable social enterprise Result will be sustainable social enterprise selling local, fresh, unsprayed fruit and vegetables to the community vegetables to the community

• Whole‐system approach : network, learning, farm, markets

The Veg VanThe Veg Van

• Local and regional produce to fresh food desert• Aim ‐ 21,000 customers• Renovated milk float, run on solar power• www.vegvan.org.uk

Sutton Community FarmSutton Community Farm

•Bringing 7.5 acres of land back into management

•Supported learning for food growing novices

www.suttoncommunityfarm.org.uk

Working with residents Working with residents

PAY AS YOU SAVE• Pilot project for the Green Deal, p j ,

partnership between B&Q, Sutton Council, BioRegionalBioRegional

• Surveys undertaken: 180R fi d f 6 hRetrofitted so far: 69 homesAverage cost: £14,237Lowest: £1,456Highest: £33 806 Highest: £33,806

Working with residents Working with residents

• PAY AS YOU SAVE – lessons learned• EPC‐based payback is inaccurate:

potential mis‐selling time bomb • Lifestyle, attitude and understanding are crucial factorsy , g• Need to explain measures in detail – but proves

households will accept hard to reach measures p• Not just about money‐savings: comfort a big factor• Change drive demand – especially family circumstances Change drive demand especially family circumstances

– so catch at the points of change

Working with community groups

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTM i kill d id f l l it • Mapping skills and ideas of local community and voluntary sector on environment

• Putting together portfolio of projects for local people to vote on around 10 principlespeople to vote on, around 10 principles

• Part‐time community engagement officer• Giving groups the skills and networks beyond project outcomes and lifetimeproject outcomes and lifetime

Working within the Big Society

HACKBRIDGE = BIG SOCIETY VANGUARD BIG SOCIETY VANGUARD• Not about cutting services and making local

community take them oncommunity take them on• Should be about local community having control

h i i f h i f f il over the vision for their future: support from council, business, third sector to make it a reality

• Importance of: partnership, tools and forums, trust, innovation, listening

Next stepsNext steps

• Aim to focus on Hackbridge (c2,500 households) then roll out lessons across )borough

• Want to have a replicable example of what • Want to have a replicable example of what our sustainable future will look like

• Will be doing ‘Big Society’ after it has gone out of political fashion: community, third out of political fashion: community, third sector, public sector and private sector working togetherworking together.

Philippa WardPhilippa Ward

Head of One Planet Regions

BioRegional Development Group


www bioregional comwww.bioregional.com

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