Circular, Sustainable Cities and Towns Briefing
UK cities and towns sit at the sharp end of our country’s biggest challenges: high energy bills, stretched infrastructure, rising waste volumes, housing demand, rising carbon emissions , and increasing demands on finite resources.
We cannot look at these in isolation. Our local governments must make a strategic, coordinated shift towards circularity and sustainability: where resources are used efficiently, value is retained locally, and clean energy and circular economy initiatives support and reinforce one another. This is not just better for our local environments, but local communities, infrastructure, and economies.
With the Government undertaking the largest restructuring of English local government in a generation – and England to launch its own Circular Economy Growth Plan – our cities and towns have the perfect opportunity to act as facilitators of change, working with the private sector to enable investment and to build the services and facilities of tomorrow. The timing could not be better.