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Welcome to your monthly Climate Change update.
Happy New Year and welcome to the first edition of our Climate Change newsletter for 2024.
There are lots of exciting things to come this year and we are pleased to have you on our carbon neutral journey. As always, if you would like to feature your climate and environmental success stories please drop us an email to climate@northumberland.gov.uk.
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| | Funding awarded to pioneering environmental and climate projects
After a thorough evaluation process by the Climate Change Team at the Council, 17 successful projects have been selected from 35 applications for their innovative approaches. This has resulted in £55,000 being awarded for environmentally conscious projects collectively.
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| | | Managing surface water flooding
Heavy rainfall can lead to surface water flooding, overwhelming drainage systems. We can help reduce the risk of surface water flooding in different ways. For example:
- Land managers: Enhance tree coverage, slow the flow of water through leaky dams, practice agricultural land management, and support peatland restoration. Noteworthy efforts include The Northumberland Peat Partnership.
- Property owners: Install flood resilience measures like flood doors, barriers, valves, and pumps. Explore resources like the Flood Resilient Garden guide and check flood risk on GOV.UK.
- Sustainable practices: Use water butts, rain gardens, green roofs, and permeable paving to ease drainage system strain. Water butts also store water for dry periods.
- Tree planting: Can increase water infiltration into the soil. The Council's Free Trees initiative aids residents in planting trees. The Great Northumberland Forest can help communities, landowners and agents to develop tree planting and woodland creation projects and provide free support from an initial plan or idea, through to delivery on the ground.
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| | | | | Reducing emissions on Northumberland farms
We are working with the Rural Design Centre and Newcastle University, with support the NFU to run three workshops, all held at Cockle Park Farm, to understand the specific climate challenges facing farms in the County. The events are aimed at farmers and explore how to begin looking at solutions to support change.
There will be guest experts to support the sessions, facilitated exercises to ensure the focus is relevant for your farm, and practical solutions designed with deliverability in mind.
The first session will also include a farm tour to see more of what Newcastle University Farms are trialllng, and a chance to ask questions of the farm manager.
All sessions will include lunch and refreshments, and we can reimburse your travel expenses.
The workshops will be run:
January 18th - 10am - 2pm
February 8th - 10am -2pm
March 7th - 10am -2pm
We strongly advice that you try to attend all sessions, as the process has been designed to work with you through a series of exercises to deliver practical solutions.
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