Low Emission Strategies

The Low Emission Strategies (LES) Partnership

The LES Partnership supports adoption and implementation of LES by local authorities. The group builds on momentum generated during the Air Quality Beacons Year (2007/8), when Greenwich Council received recognition for its pioneering work in this area.

Underlying the partnership is a practical programme of work centred on a nationally funded performance improvement scheme. We have established a peer group of local authorities working together to support local implementation of LES and to demonstrate good practice. We are also establishing a Low Emission Forum encompassing both LES champions and ‘critical friends’ from central government, local government, consultancies, industry, academia and the NGO sector. Our management board provides oversight of partnership activities.

The work is funded by grants from Defra and CLG in combination with significant match/in-kind funding from participating organisations. Phase I of the programme was funded until January 2010. A second phase of work has been launched and will run from January 2010 to March 2011.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch, if you would like to find out more about our work, about how your authority can benefit, or how your organisation can get directly involved.

Programme Board

Chair: John Paterson (Greenwich)
Deputy Chair: Gary Mahoney (Sefton)
Board Members: Andrew Whittles (Cenex), Steve Simmons (Sheffield), Paul Cartmell (Wigan), Val Beale (Hillingdon), Simon Newcombe (Mid Devon), Jon Tubby (Leeds)
Board Observers: Cassandra Harrison (LACORS), Robert Vaughan (Defra)

Phase I Peer Group

City of London, Lewes District Council, South Cambridgeshire District Council, Mid Devon District Council, Oxford City Council, Sheffield City Council, Sefton Council, Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, Wigan Council, Leeds City Council, Maidstone Borough Council, London Borough of Wandsworth, London Borough of Greenwich, Leicester City Council, Croydon Council

Phase II Regional Groups

Sussex – including: Sussex-Air, Lewes District Council, Eastbourne Borough Council, Chichester District Council, East Sussex County Council, West Sussex County Council, Hastings Borough Council, Brighton and Hove City Council, Worthing Borough Council, Adur District Council, Environmental Protection UK, Climate South East.

Liverpool City Region – including: Sefton Council, Liverpool City Council, Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council, St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council, Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council, Halton Borough Council, Merseytravel.

Leeds City Region – including: York Council, Leeds City Council, Institute of Transport Studies (University of Leeds), West Yorkshire Transport Emissions Group, City Car Club, Metro/Integrated Transport Authority, First West Yorkshire Ltd., Stockholm Environment Institute, J Sainsbury, Whites Biogas Ltd., Harrogate Borough Council, Yorkshire Forward Regional Development Agency / CO2sense, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council.

Please email: info@lowemissionstrategies.org

Low Emission Strategies Partnership
c/o John Paterson
London Borough of Greenwich
Directorate of Community Safety and Integrated Enforcement,
12th Floor, Riverside House West,
Woolwich High Street,
Woolwich,
SE18 6DN

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