The Greenprint Forum meets on a quarterly basis and some
meetings are open to the public, if you would like details of these
please telephone 01394 444736 or email
environmental.protection@suffolkcoastal.gov.uk.
Meetings start at 7.00pm and are held in the Council Chamber,
at Melton Hill, Woodbridge (new window),
unless a site visit is arranged.
Meetings scheduled for 2009
26 January 2009 - other dates to be agreed.
Meetings held in 2008
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27 October 2008 - General meeting with an
environment and business focus including speakers from British
Telecom, the Port of Felixstowe and Suffolk County Council.
22 September 2008 -
site visit to see composting at Foxhall
landfill site.
28 July 2008 -
site visit to an environmentally conscious
farm.
30 June 2008 - General meeting with talks on
the Local Development Framework and on Green Space Strategies.
2 April 2008 -
site visit to the Bioganix compost facility,
Parham.
25 February 2008 - David Kemp from the
Environment Agency spoke about flood management arrangements and
Steve Aylward from the Suffolk Wildlife Trust gave a presentation
on the impacts of flooding and climate change on local
wildlife.
Meetings held in 2007
22 October 2007 - Iain Dunnett, project manager
for the Suffolk Strategic Partnership project ‘Suffolk – Creating
the Greenest County’, gave a presentation on the aims and
background of the greenest county initiative. Phil Gore introduced
Deborah Wargate, Suffolk Coastal's new Sustainability Officer who
gave an overview of the role of the sustainability officer and a
presentation on the Greenprint Forum visit to the straw burner at L
F Geater & Sons Ltd, West End Nurseries, Leiston.
25 June 2007 - the meeting was a training
session for forum members on carbon footprinting run by the Energy
Saving Trust Advice Centre Anglia to help Suffolk Coastal support a
community carbon footprint project.
23 April 2007 - an introduction to the use of
wood chip as a renewable energy source. Included site visits to
Anglia Woodfuel's wood chip production and storage facility at
Bentwaters Park and wood chip boiler installations at Rendlesham
Primary School and a farmhouse in Brundish.
29 January 2007 - the meeting included a
presentation by Luke Bennett of the Suffolk Coastal Local Strategic
Partnership (LSP) on projects co-ordinated by the LSP followed by
discussion on revised aims and objectives for the group and
nomination of a member of the group to sit on the LSP board.
Meetings held in 2006
27th November 2006 - the meeting included a
presentation by Neil Ridley from Otley College on the future
direction of farming and how this might impact on the environment.
This was followed by an update on the work of the Suffolk Coastal
Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) by Luke Bennett and some
discussion around how the forum can support the LSP on
environmental issues followed by a review of the groups terms of
reference and future work programme.
27 July 2006 - members of the forum were given
a tour of the Materials Recycling Facility at Great Blakenham and
had an opportunity to see how the dry recyclate,
collected through the twin bin scheme, is
separated for recycling.
8 May 2006 - Decommissioning of Sizewell A
30 January 2006
For more information about the forum or its current work, please
do not hesitate to contact us on 01394 444736 or
email
environmental.protection@suffolkcoastal.gov.uk.