Brockham Village
In 2021 the Brockham Parish Council Declared a Climate Emergency in Brockham.
This means the Parish Council have made a commitment to consider the environment in all their decision making, and aims to provide leadership to the community to make a difference. If all Parish and Community councils do this, we are a step towards pulling together to slow down climate change and protect our planet and wildlife, and ourselves.
“Our Parish council team is strong and ready to commit to protecting the environment. We want to listen to our residents and pull together with the for the benefit of our future, our childrens, our wildlife and mankind.”
— Chairman Karen Gargani
The Parish Council have a formal Environment Working Group led by Chairman Karen Gargani made up of enthusiastic residents Hazel King, Kevin Clarke, Geraldine Tucker, Roger Abbott, Geraldine Cummins, Simon Fellows, Chloe Pearce and Lucca Ewbank. We would love to and showcase any ideas you have to help the environment.
We have created a strategy based on the Permaculture model, an internationally recognised way of developing a strategic planning approach to our growing environmental issues. The flower symbol highlights that people and nature can exist together to create a sustainable world. You will see this as a logo where we are protecting a wild area or talking about Environment Working Group activities.
Click on the flower image above to see our strategy in detail.
The Parish Council has a Wilding Programme. If you have a verge or patch you would like to wild, let our clerk know and we will get the necessary highways permission.
Why not try composting. Surrey Wildlife Trust has produced a leaflet with some tips of how to do it effectively. When turning over your heap with a fork, remember you might have snakes, newts, frogs or hedgehogs hiding within it.
The Soil Association website has some useful guidance for plants for pollinators: -
https://www.soilassociation.org/take-action/growing-at-home/bee-organic/bee-friendly-flowers-herbs/
Claire Benn from Betchworth has shared some good guidance notes for gardening for wildlife. Click below to read about
Wildlife-Friendly Gardening and Encouraging Wildflowers
If you are interested to know more or have experience you would be happy to share with us, please get in touch. Sharing local experience with other people will help speed up the transition to a sustainable future.
We are particularly interested in:
1) reducing carbon and energy use in our community buildings and homes
2) community energy schemes (we are working with a company on this)
3) underground heat pump
4) electricity generation and battery storage units
5) electric cars
