APPENDIX

TERMS OF REFERENCE

FOR THE

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT WORKING PARTY

Aims :

To promote and develop an environmentally friendly Transport Plan and actively encourage the Council’s workforce to encompass ‘green’ ways of working and sustainability.

To develop the means of reducing the impact of travel to work and transport activity associated with work.

Overall Objectives :

•          To make the Council as accessible for the public, visitors, staff and Members using a variety of transport modes.

•          To create opportunities for the public, visitors, staff and Members to use alternative means of transport to the private car, so that car use is increasingly confined to those people to whom other transport is not a realistic option.

•          To ensure that there is sufficient staff car parking for those whose only option is to travel by car.

•          To actively encourage alternative, sustainable transport modes.

Council Objectives :

•          To benefit staff and Members through greater flexibility in working practices and promote greater awareness of potential environmental and financial advantages generated through travelling by alternative means or by sharing costs with others.

•          To benefit the Council by developing a healthier, more motivated workforce, reduced levels of absenteeism, reduced parking requirements and a better environmental corporate image.

•          To benefit the community through reduced traffic noise and pollution levels and reduced conflict between vulnerable road users and motor vehicles.