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Please make sure you have read all the notes carefully before you start to fill in the application form. This application form can either be completed by hand or electronically - it is available on the Planning homepage at www.scotland.gov.uk/planning. Please complete all five sections. The deadline for submitting applications is 27 August 2008. An acknowledgement letter will be sent to the person who has completed this form.
1 Please provide a name and contact details of the lead organisation responsible for this work.
Name | Dr. Grahame Buchan |
Job title | Structure Plan Manager |
Organisation | Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Structure Plan Joint Committee |
Address | 125 West Regent Street, Glasgow, G2 2SA |
Telephone | 0141 229 7730 |
Fax | 0141 221 4518 |
Email | grahame_buchan@gcvcore.gov.uk |
2 If this is a joint application, please list the other partners who had a key role. You should also inform your partners that you are nominating the project for an award.
1 The Tyndall Centre | 2 METREX |
3 | 4 |
5 | 6 |
3 Tick one nomination category
4 Title of entry | InterMETREXPlus: Greenhouse Gas Regional Inventory Project |
Please complete the form on the following pages by providing a brief summary of the piece of work you have entered. You must also conclude with a key reason as to why you think this work merits an Award. Only the two A4 pages supplied here can be used and your text must fit within the boxes. The font size should be no less than 12pt.
The judging criteria are set out below. Please tick only the key criteria relevant to your entry:
You must describe how the project relates to the criteria which you have ticked.
Description of project
The InterMETREXPlus Project investigated the role of strategic spatial planning in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The project sought, for the first time in Scotland, to audit greenhouse gas emissions for the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley area and produce an inventory of these emissions for a discrete metropolitan area. It also sought to engage key partners in the spatial planning process to generate possible scenarios for modelling the impact of a range of mitigation policies. These policies were tied to a project target of an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 in line with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change target and also 2025 targets to provide a context for the emerging thinking for the first Strategic Development Plan for the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley area. |
Describe the background to the project
The InterMETREX project was promoted by the network of European Metropolitan Regions and Areas ( METREX) under INTERREGIIIC of the European Union; it ran from 2003 to 2006 to provide a benchmark of effective European spatial planning and development practice. The InterMETREX project recognised that the key issue of climate change had not been addressed fully within European spatial planning and that measures to address this key issue were required. Further INTERREGIIIC funding was achieved to undertake the InterMETREXPlus project which facilitated the use of the Greenhouse Gas Regional Inventory Project ( GRIP) methodology to enable metropolitan spatial planning authorities to assess their emissions, explore mitigation measures and move towards developing mitigation strategies. |
What are the aims and objectives of the project?
The aim of the project was to assist strategic planning authorities in developing their responses and potential strategies to address climate change impacts. The twin objectives of the overall InterMETREXPlus project were: 1) to develop the GRIP methodology so that it could produce the first ever regional greenhouse gas inventories at a metropolitan area scale; 2) test the GRIP scenario tool at a metropolitan regional scale and evaluate its effectiveness at stimulating debate amongst key spatial planning partners. The GCVSPJC specific objectives were to produce the first greenhouse gas inventiory for the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley area and contribute to emerging thinking for the first Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Strategic Development Plan Main Issues Report. |
Over what timescale has the project been developed?
The identification of the need for the project was the result of three years of investigation into the quality of European spatial planning through the InterMETREX project. The InterMETREXPlus project was developed from Autumn 2006 to Spring 2007, when funding was secured from INTERREGIIIC and match-funded by GCVSPJC and METREX. March-May 2007 were spent working with the Tyndall Centre to identify the relevant data sources required for the GRIP inventory programme and assessing the quality of the data. Also, during Match and April 2007 communication was undertaken with a number of public and private sector stakeholders to participate in the GRIP Scenario tool workshops. |
Explain the process and action taken
The first task was the establishment of the availability of the relevant data for the production of the inventories and supplying this data to the Tyndall Centre for processing. The results of the inventory provided the quantitative platform for the GRIP scenario tool which was used by participants to develop regional mitigation scenarios. The scenario process consisted of semi-structured group interviews through which stakeholders were asked to reach a consensus vision for the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley area in 2050. The scenario targets identified by each workshop for the road transport sector were spatially analysed by GCVSPJC and Strathclyde Partnership for Transport ( SPT) comparing them to the outputs of the regional transport model and identifying relevant mitigation strategies for this sector. |
Explain the role of the key partners
Dr. Sebastian Carney of The Tyndall Centre developed the GRIP methodology/Scenario Tool and was also responsbile for facilitating the workshops. Roger Read of METREX faciliatied the identification of other european metropolitan regions to join the InterMETREXPlus project extension. SPT provided the use of the Regional Transport Model for testing the scenario workshop outputs. Representatives of all consituent GCVSPJC authorities, SPT, Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Government, Transport Scotland, BAA Glasgow, Forestry Commission Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Communities Scotland, Glasgow Chamber of Commerce particpated in the scenario workshops. |
What results were achieved?
The production of the first Greenhouse Gas Inventory for the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Structure Plan area, outlines the level of emissions of the six main greenhouse gases. This inventory also provides the GCVSPJC with a detailed baseline for future work and comparison. Three-day long scenario workshops were held with a range of stakeholder organisations to consider possible energy-futures for the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley area. This identified possible mechanisms to achieve 80% reduction by 2050 and the obstacles, whilst raising awareness with all statutory planning partners of the need to address climate change policies in the plans and programmes associated with the Planning etc (Scotland) Act 2006 whilst aiming to maintain sustained economic growth and social equity. |
In summary, why does this piece of work merit an Award?
The initial pilot work through InterMETREXPlus has provided the GCVSPJC with the first ever substantive analysis of the metropolitan sources of greenhouse gas emissions and along with its innovative engagement of partners and stakeholders through GRIP scenario workshops has provided a broad consensus on what can and what needs to be achieved through the first Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Strategic Development Plan and its associated Local Plans and partner strategies. This innovative piece of work provides a solid basis for starting to develop and share spatial planning responses with partner organisations both in Scotland and in a wider European context to address climate change, in advance of any statutory requirements emanating from the Climate Change (Scotland) Bill. |
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