Councillor Trish Robertson backs Highland Council's climate strategy which includes a scheme to grow more of our own food and included in the authority's new budget
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A leading Highland councillor the inclusion of climate change recommendations which have been included in the 2021/2022 budget.
Members of Highland Council are set to discuss the proposed revenue budget remotely at a special meeting from 10.30am tomorrow.
One of the key elements of the Health and Prosperity strategy in this year’s Highland Council budget are a series of Climate Change initiatives led by Scottish Liberal Democrat Councillor Trish Roberston who chairs the Climate Change Working group and the Economy and Infrastructure committee.
Among the radical proposals is a scheme to grow more of our own food – and a dedicated Food Growing/Community Engagement officer will take the lead on the strategy called Growing our own future.
Cllr Robertson (Culloden and Ardersier, Scottish Liberal Democrats) welcomed the commitment and said: “People in the highlands are already good at growing their own, but we need to find more land for allotments, identify places where community growing schemes can be encouraged and support the groups already showing the way.”
The budget also includes support for the development of service level plans to meet net zero targets and identifying external funding to accelerate decarbonisation processes.
Cllr Robertson said: “We have the ambition and we have the ideas – like using Hydrogen to help green our transport fleet – this budget gives us the resource to go after the funding we need to make it happen.”
