• Making Chelmsford Greener and Safer

• Declared a Climate and Ecology Emergency in Chelmsford and committed the Council to being carbon neutral by 2030 • 100% of electricity for the council now comes from renewable sources.

• Agree to only use Fair Trade / Rain Forest Alliance products on Civic centre site.

• Reduce single-use plastics and eliminate entirely from the Civic Centre site.

• Green vehicles - replacing park vehicles with four electric powered alternatives.

• Green travel - encouraging staff and Councillors to cycle to work by providing new cycle stands, lockers and shelters at the Civic Centre.

• Protect vital green space in Chelmsford by removing John Shennan playing fields from the draft local plan

• Encourage sustainable transport by progressing plans for a new station, working with Essex County Council on the successful Housing Infrastructure Fund bid.

• Gaining Garden Village Status for the future development in N.E. Chelmsford; an additional £150,000 funding was awarded for this financial year. • £500,000 of Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) money devolved to neighbourhood CIL so that many local projects in the central, nonparished urban area can be funded to go ahead.

• Encouraging electric car take up with electric charging points. Eight installed in Chelmsford City Council Car parks all at no cost to the council.

• Promoted health and wellbeing in new development through the design and launch of the new Live Well Development Accreditation Scheme.

• Start saving the council money and reducing vandalism in car parks by installing cashless parking machines on a phased basis, programmed to start next year.

• Address public concerns about badly parked vehicles with two more parking enforcement officers for Chelmsford in the second half of the year.

• Free advice sessions for start-up businesses by joint working between the City Council and COLBEA, a business support organisation from Colchester.

• Inspire young people to explore high-tech / vocational career opportunities by hosting the first Skills Festival at Hylands Park in July 2019. Some 400 Year 8 students from two Chelmsford schools took part in work activities provided by many local businesses ranging from virtual reality engineering, to being a DJ, designing a town and working in media

• Promote high-tech manufacturing by creating the Chelmsford Tech Ambassadors group, bringing together many Chelmsford tech businesses to explore ways to grow this sector of the local economy