Climate change adaptation strategy

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Dear East Sussex County Council,

1) Do you have a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and/or Policy (or similar)? If so please attach.

2) Has this document been adopted by Council or Cabinet (or similar), if so, when?

3) Has a Councillor been assigned to champion this Strategy/Policy (or similar), if so, who?

4) Is the strategy/policy (or similar) supported by an action/programme/project plan? If so, please attach.

5) Is this plan delivering on time and to budget?

6) What are those timescales and budget?

7) Are progress reports provided to Cabinet/Council (or similar), if so, please attach.

Yours faithfully,

Tom Cole

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East Sussex BN7 1UE

 

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Dear Mr Cole

 

FOI Request ref:  3491 / Cole / Climate Change Adaptation Strategy

 

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Request:

 

Dear East Sussex County Council,

 

1)            Do you have a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and/or
Policy (or similar)?  If so please attach.

 

2)            Has this document been adopted by Council or Cabinet (or
similar), if so, when? 

 

3)            Has a Councillor been assigned to champion this
Strategy/Policy (or similar), if so, who? 

 

4)            Is the strategy/policy (or similar) supported by an
action/programme/project plan? If so, please attach.

 

5)            Is this plan delivering on time and to budget? 

 

6)            What are those timescales and budget?

 

7)            Are progress reports provided to Cabinet/Council (or
similar), if so, please attach. 

 
Response:

 

Under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 there is an
exemption from the duty to provide information on request when that
information is reasonably accessible to the applicant by other means.

 

The answers to questions 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 are here:
[1]http://www.essp.org.uk/what-we-do/Pride-....

 

The answeres to questions 2 and 3 are below.

 

2. 2011

 

3. The leader of the County Council is ESCC’s representative on the East
Sussex Strategic Partnership.

 

 

 

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Sussex County Council, County Hall, St Anne’s Crescent, Lewes, East
Sussex. BN7 1UE.

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Yours sincerely

 

 

Jeremy Coleman

Customer Information Officer

W1D, County Hall

St Anne's Crescent

Lewes

East Sussex BN7 1UE
Phone: 01273 482913
Fax: 01273 481208

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