May meeting

We had hoped that some of this meeting would be in person, outdoors, but the spring weather had other ideas, so we moved the meeting to online only.

At the April meeting, several topics were put forward for future meetings, and two of those were the focus on this meeting- air quality and climate change. We agreed that the relevant people responsible for these areas from the Council would come and outline what their role is and what's being done on these issues by the Council.

• Chris Banks, the Air Quality officer for the Council took us through what the Council is doing on air quality. You can see the presentation here. And a recording of the presentation here.
• Neil Pearce, Head of Sustainability for the Council took us through what the Council is doing on climate change and sustainability. You can see the presentation here. And a recording of the presentation here.
• You can see the padlet board, where everyone could contribute in advance and during the meeting here.

After each presentation there was a Q&A and discussion.

Feedback from the meeting was that in future we will:

• Have more time for Q&A
• Have more time for the network to reflect on the information, and to consider how the network and residents want to get more involved in the topic

The next meeting theme will be on trees. We're inviting the Tree Officer from the Council to attend- who else should be there?