{"id":8955,"date":"2024-01-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/2024\/01\/25\/regulatory-services-and-net-zero\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T00:00:00","slug":"regulatory-services-and-net-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/regulatory-services-and-net-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulatory services and net zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 7.5pt 0cm 15.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #2d2d2d;\">The LGA has <a style=\"-ms-word-break: break-all; word-break: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: none; -moz-hyphens: none; hyphens: none;\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lnks.gd\/l\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDYsInVyaSI6ImJwMjpjbGljayIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmxvY2FsLmdvdi51ay9wdWJsaWNhdGlvbnMvcmVndWxhdG9yeS1zZXJ2aWNlcy1hbmQtbmV0LXplcm8tbWFwcGluZy1sb2NhbC1sZXZlcnMiLCJidWxsZXRpbl9pZCI6IjIwMjQwMTI0Ljg5MDUyMDQxIn0.sZAyZZaBu8_2hFZtMhDoMMYMolfn_xPcU5VKQi7hacQ\/s\/1000864375\/br\/235883088359-l\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #941c80;\">produced a table which seeks to map the levers local regulatory services<\/span><\/a> have at their disposal to help deliver councils net zero ambitions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 7.5pt 0cm 15.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #2d2d2d;\">The document includes a range of licensing related actions, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #2d2d2d;\">Use the council\u2019s taxi\/private hire vehicle licensing policy to mandate emissions standards of vehicles to remove vehicles with poor emissions ratings from the road. Councils may find the Energy Saving Trust\u2019s guidance on this issue useful. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #2d2d2d;\">Incentivise drivers to switch to lower emissions or electric taxi\/private hire vehicles, for example by reducing licence or renewal fees, exempting such vehicles from clean air zone fees or simplifying the inspection regime. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #2d2d2d;\">Consider the scope for mandating environmentally friendly requirements in other policies, such as street trading and requiring the use of recyclable paper bags, for example.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #2d2d2d;\">Use licensing policies to influence businesses, festivals or events and encourage environmentally friendly practices, such as using recyclable or reusable plates and glasses, making provision for public transport options or limiting private parking. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 7.5pt 0cm 15.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #2d2d2d;\">It is split into four broad categories of activity, which are then broken down into individual touchpoints identifying specific work areas and actions that can influence the journey to net zero. Councils can download the document and edit it to tailor it to local circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 7.5pt 0cm 15.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #2d2d2d;\">Councils can download the document and edit it to tailor it to local circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LGA has produced a table which seeks to map the levers local regulatory services have at their disposal to help deliver councils net zero ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}