GEP

 GEP provides strategic leadership on environment issues across the County, and leads the Natural and Built Environment theme within the  Gloucestershire Local Area Agreement

Gloucestershire is facing a number of environmental challenges, especially climate change. GEP champions Gloucestershire’s response to climate change. GEP priority areas of action

• Mitigation and adaptation to climate change

• Fuel poverty, transport and waste

 In particular, GEP aims to fulfil the following role within Gloucestershire:

• Provide strategic leadership to promote a sustainable Gloucestershire

• Manage delivery; provide financial management and performance management of the Natural and Built Environment (NBE) theme of the Local Area Agreement (LAA).

• The joint planning and commissioning of activity and services to help develop a sustainable Gloucestershire.

• Engage the support and active participation of a range of stakeholders in developing and delivering a strategy for a sustainable Gloucestershire.

• Support other parts of the Gloucestershire Conference (family of partnerships) in achieving outcomes while taking regard of sustainability.

Our detailed work plan is available here   LAA work plan

There is specific legislation that the partnership is helping to deliver. These include:

- The Climate Change Act 2008

- Waste Strategy for England 2007

- Local Transport Act 2008