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There is a markdown copy listed at the bottom of the page *** #### Meeting Summary: Jul 01, 2026 11:45 AM London ID: 834 5460 8536 ### Quick recap This meeting focused on community emergency planning and preparation for heat waves, with Andrew presenting on developing local emergency plans and resilience strategies. The discussion covered key aspects of heat wave preparation including identifying vulnerable residents, creating cool spaces, managing water resources, and implementing safety measures. Participants shared practical experiences and challenges, with Deborah describing her efforts to establish a neighborhood watch-based emergency planning initiative in Maidenhead due to lack of parish council presence, while others discussed building design issues, the need for better communication of practical advice, and the importance of considering both rural and urban community needs. The group explored how parish councils could play roles in managing public land for heat adaptation, tree planting for shade, and coordinating with local emergency services, with participants agreeing on the need for more positive messaging around climate resilience rather than focusing solely on doom and gloom scenarios. ### Summary ### Heat Wave Impact Discussion The group discussed recent heat waves, with Stuart mentioning that Spain reported 1,000 excess deaths due to the recent heat wave. Andrew noted that Gloucestershire didn't experience as severe conditions as other areas, with temperatures reaching up to 42 degrees in some locations. ### Emergency Planning for Climate Challenges Andrew introduced a presentation about emergency planning for heat waves and floods, referencing a National Emergency Briefing from November that highlighted concerns about rising temperatures, potential changes to the Gulf Stream, and food supply issues. The discussion emphasized the need for practical local responses to climate challenges rather than panic-inducing messages, with a focus on developing positive community actions. ### Local Emergency Planning Coordination Gaps Andrew discussed the importance of local knowledge in emergency planning and highlighted gaps in coordination between UK-wide resilience forums. He noted that many local forums are not updating their emergency plan templates and lack strong networks, citing an example where none of the four East Anglia forums he shared an updated template with responded. Andrew outlined key stages in developing a community emergency plan, including identifying vulnerable residents, forming response groups, and preparing for various risks like heat waves and floods. ### Community Emergency Plan Development Andrew discussed the development of a community emergency plan, focusing on preparing for heat waves and other emergencies. He outlined key considerations including identifying safe spaces like parish churches, ensuring communication methods work during emergencies, and coordinating with local emergency services. Andrew also provided specific advice on heat wave preparation, including checking weather warnings, turning off heating, maintaining water supplies, and using curtains to block sunlight. ### Water Safety During Heat Waves Andrew discussed water safety during heat waves, highlighting the dangers of cold water shock and sharing safety advice including not jumping into unknown water, entering gradually, and never going wild swimming alone. He also addressed the impact on local wildlife, particularly ducks, and emphasized the need for signs and awareness in community areas. Andrew noted that while government campaigns address various emergencies, they do not consider food shortages, and suggested exploring Sustainable Food Places for local food partnership initiatives. ### Long-Term Food and Energy Planning Andrew discussed long-term food security planning, noting that while short-term measures like food banks and community fridges are helpful, there's a need to consider growing more local food and creating new allotments. Graham provided detailed information about thatch fire risks during heatwaves, emphasizing the importance of managing surrounding vegetation rather than just roofs, and suggested measures like cutting back grass and maintaining firebreaks. The discussion also covered energy supplies, with Stuart Stuart highlighting the benefits of air conditioning, particularly when combined with renewable energy, and Graham mentioning that heat pumps can provide both heating and cooling. ### Heat Pump Resilience Strategies The group discussed heat pump installations and resilience measures for extreme heat, with Stuart's idea about heat pumps receiving support. Dan suggested that parish councils could implement long-term shade planting and educate the public about effective heat wave responses, while Deborah raised important concerns about how heat mitigation strategies like heat pumps and air conditioning aren't suitable for renters in apartments without outdoor access or for those on limited budgets. The discussion highlighted the need for more inclusive advice that considers the specific challenges faced by vulnerable populations during heat waves. ### Community Heat Management Strategies The group discussed community heat management and vulnerability during a heatwave. Deborah emphasized the need to broadly identify vulnerabilities beyond traditional categories, noting that people taking certain medications may be vulnerable in specific ways. Joanne highlighted the importance of educating children about heat management techniques and suggested that building regulations need updating to better address heat retention issues in modern construction. The discussion included practical solutions like using fans with water bowls or wet blankets for cooling, and Andrew referenced a project from the Isle of Wight involving energy battery networks for community sharing. The conversation also touched on the need for both local community action and policy changes at higher levels, with references to a Climate Change Committee report highlighting concerns about overheating in existing homes by 2050. ### Residential Building Overheating Issues Stuart discussed overheating issues in new residential buildings, including a specific case of a brand new block where residents couldn't sell their flats due to excessive heat. Dan explained that while the Future Home Standard has introduced regulations on window size, it lacks controls on external shading and landscaping, and permits development rights that create overheating risks. Dan suggested that telling stories about heat wave impacts could help drive change, particularly by joining with other organizations to promote greater resilience to extreme heat. ### Community Preparedness Planning Discussion Andrew discussed organizing community preparedness efforts, particularly focusing on how to bring people together at the local level to prepare for heat waves and other emergencies. He noted that while town and parish councils provide a straightforward approach in some areas, urban areas often lack these organized structures. Deborah shared her experience in Maidenhead where she encountered difficulties finding existing community preparedness groups, leading her to set up a neighborhood watch program for her street as a starting point to engage with 300 local homes. ### Community Resilience Planning Meeting Deborah shared her work on developing community resilience plans in Maidenhead, focusing on bringing people together through neighborhood watch programs to prepare for emergencies. She discussed connecting with local organizations and funeral directors who could provide support during crises. The group discussed the role of parish councils in managing land for heat adaptation, with Dan suggesting they could implement strategies like tree planting and fire breaks to reduce heat effects. Andrew emphasized the need for better communication about these initiatives and mentioned plans to bring together people working on similar projects in October. *** #### Chat: 00:35:36 Belinda Bawden: We're fighting to prevent the closure of our fire station in Charmouth. The crew is trained and has specialist equipment to help with coastal landslides, cliff rescues etc as well as flooding, wildfires, thatch fires. Do you know if it's possible to identify and map all the thatched properties in my ward? Parish Online? thanks \ 00:36:41 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Parish Online has overhead photography, via which you could identify many thatches. Will look to see if there are other sources…. \ 00:38:55 Belinda Bawden: I'm no longer able to access Parish Online, sadly ... \ 00:39:29 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Try which of these apply, Belinda: \ 00:39:47 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: The best approaches are:\ \&#xNAN;***Ordnance Survey National Geographic Database (OS NGD)*** – as of 2025, OS includes roof attributes for over 40 million buildings, including roof material. If "thatch" is one of the recorded roof materials (or can be inferred), this is by far the most comprehensive source. Public-sector users can access it directly, while commercial licences are also available.\ \&#xNAN;***Historic England / Listed Buildings*** – about 75% of thatched buildings in England and Wales are listed, so querying the National Heritage List for descriptions containing "thatched roof", "thatch", etc., gets you most historic examples, but it misses unlisted cottages and newer thatched houses.\ \&#xNAN;***OpenStreetMap*** – buildings can be tagged with:roof:material=thatchbut coverage is patchy because it depends on volunteers. In some villages it's excellent; nationally it's incomplete. \ 00:39:55 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Computer vision from aerial photography – if you were undertaking a research project, it is quite feasible to identify thatch automatically from aerial imagery using machine learning. The characteristic texture and colour are distinctive enough that several research groups have demonstrated good results.\ If your aim is every thatched house in Britain\ I would combine:\ OS AddressBase (every property)\ OS NGD roof material\ Listed Building records\ OpenStreetMap tags\ That would probably identify well over 95% of them. \ 00:40:24 Belinda Bawden: Brilliant, thanks, Graham, \ 00:42:58 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Thatch itself is not highly flammable when well maintained. A densely packed, healthy thatch contains surprisingly little oxygen.\ The greatest risk comes from ignition sources, especially:\ chimney sparks,\ bonfires,\ barbecues,\ fireworks,\ lightning,\ and increasingly, wind-borne embers from nearby vegetation fires.\ During a heatwave, dry hedges, long grass, and roadside verges can burn first. The embers they generate can travel tens or even hundreds of metres and ignite vulnerable roofs.\ This means parish councils can make a real difference by concentrating on the surrounding environment rather than the roofs themselves.\ For example:\ cutting back long grass immediately adjacent to thatched cottages,\ maintaining firebreaks between wild areas and housing,\ encouraging residents not to use disposable BBQs during periods of exceptional fire risk,\ ensuring hydrants remain accessible,\ identifying isolated thatched properties on parish emergency plans, \ 00:43:04 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: reminding owners to have chimneys swept before periods of heavy summer use (wood-burning stoves are often used even in summer). \ 00:44:14 Dan Stone: Thinking about extreme heat, I think we'd be calling for urban greening, tree planting, in particular in tree deserts and deprived communities \ 00:44:19 Deborah Mason: Litter picking also helpful - removing glass, vapes, other sources of fire and fuel. Also ask people not to let off fireworks \ 00:46:12 Dan Stone: Replying to "Thinking about ext..." There's perhaps things parish councils are well placed to think about, e.g. thinking about long term shade provision for public spaces. e.g. tree planting around play grounds.. ### [00:46:20 Deborah Mason: Re toolkits although badge London this is pretty comprehensive ](https://share.google/zIBbBvSXyI7PuYsMG) \ 00:47:17 Belinda Bawden: I'm specifically looking to see which properties might be at risk of being uninsurable or really expensive to insure. Apparently insurance premiums are calculated according to distance from a fire station - 8 small stations are under threat of closure in Dorset and Wiltshire so I'm interested to see how many houses with thatch might become uninsurable if the closures go ahead. Dorset & Wiltshire Fire & Rescue Services say insurance isn't their concern so wouldn't help me with the data. \ 00:48:45 Deborah Mason: Just a reminder that some of those worst affected by heat are in rented accommodation- often flats so mitigations that involve modifications to the building like heat pumps, aircon, shutters etc aren’t going to help ### 00:49:40 Dan Stone: [the London Heat Plan](https://www.london.gov.uk/heat-ready-london-londons-first-ever-heat-plan-sets-out-new-vision-protect-capital-extreme-heat) is well worth a look: \ 00:51:22 Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: We need a just transition for everybody \ 00:51:34 Belinda Bawden: I'm living in a rented flat with no outside space - I completely agree with you Deborah! \ 00:52:10 Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Share spare fans \ 00:52:29 Dan Stone: yep, totally agree Deborah. The stats are that those most in need of air conditioning are least able to afford it. \ 00:53:23 Belinda Bawden: The Climate Change Committee said years ago heatwaves were our biggest threat - the silent killer. They thought people in the north would be disproportionately affected as they're not used to as much sunshine and heat as those in the south
00:54:59 Belinda Bawden: Many thanks, I need to go to a health appointment. The slides are great and I'll catch up on the recording. \ 00:55:21 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Thinking about the high-rise apartment issues: providing that humidity is low, you can get a substantial cooling effect by blowing air from a fan over bowls of water, and soaking blankets/sheets in water, hang them up and blow the air from the fan over them. This very much less effective if humidity is over 70% \ 00:56:10 Deborah Mason: Last week in Maidenhead humidity was between 80 and 60% everyday
### 00:56:30 Dan Stone: [This report from CCC - A Well-Adapted UK - is great.](https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/a-well-adapted-uk/) There's a whole chapter on heat. some stats: by 2050 92% existing homes will overheat Heatwaves could regularly exceed 40 degrees; heatwaves of over 45 degrees possible And see their recommendation on overheating (bottom para). Also in the second paragraph, as we head towards 2050 there's a risk of deaths from overheating exceeding deaths from fuel poverty. Lots to think on. ### Also, ["Shade the UK" ](https://www.shadetheuk.com/)has lots of advice on adapting the built environment and public spaces to protect the vulnerable against a changing climate
00:56:57 Belinda Bawden: I've had more success getting policy aspirations into the draft Dorset Design Code than into the Local Plan e.g. on SUDs, rainwater harvesting, green-blue infrastructure etc \\ \ 01:01:39 Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Gather the stories and spread them ### 01:01:46 Deborah Mason: \\ \ 01:03:06 Deborah Mason: Central Maidenhead is not parishes ### 01:03:23 Dan Stone: [This organisation is great on heat adaptation, pressing for policy change: ](https://www.shadetheuk.com/) \ 01:03:43 Dan Stone: Reacted to "I've had more succ..." with 👍 ### 01:07:35 Dan Stone: [What we've been saying on town planning and heat:
](https://www.cse.org.uk/news/planning-reform-is-failing-the-climate/) 01:09:03 Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire:
01:11:52 Deborah Mason: This is my blog \ 01:13:07 Deborah Mason: One of the resilience forum plans I found hadn’t been updated since 2022 and Thames Valley rf covers 8000 sq miles \ 01:13:16 Dan Stone: Reacted to "This is my blog ht..." with 👍 \ 01:13:29 Deborah Mason: Have to leave now for a work meeting will catch the rest on video
### 01:15:53 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration:[ Net Zero Week (04 - 10 July 2026) is free, online, and has some very interesting speakers and topics:](https://www.netzeroweek.com/) \ 01:16:41 Joanne Stone, Shiplake PC: Also in my area, lots of Parish councils find it difficult to recruit, and there is only so much time available. \ 01:18:10 Helen Pratt - Bucklebury, West Berkshire: Thank you for all the info - off to think about the Emergency Plan for my parishes! *** #### Audio-transcript: 86 \ 00:20:58.590 --> 00:21:05.870 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So, good a… good afternoon, everybody. This is something… this is a site… a site that we're quite. 87 \ 00:21:06.090 --> 00:21:18.630 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: familiar with at the moment, and it looks like it's going to be even more familiar as time and a half goes by. My good friend Jules is saying, you know, welcome to the coolest summer for the rest of our lives. 88 \ 00:21:18.870 --> 00:21:22.629 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Here's another stark way of putting it. But there we go. 89 \ 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:31.259 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So, yes, too hot. Of course, sometimes when we've had heat waves and the ground gets baked, what do we get? We get storms and we get floods. Things become too wet. 90 \ 00:21:31.590 --> 00:21:39.549 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So, we're thinking about emergency planning, thinking about, getting ourselves and our communities ready for what may be coming down at us. 91 \ 00:21:39.750 --> 00:21:48.230 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: If we're going to talk about heat waves, then we have to talk about floods fairly swiftly afterwards. We have talked about floods at other occasions on these, 92 \ 00:21:48.860 --> 00:21:50.470 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And these ban decisions. 93 \ 00:21:50.700 --> 00:21:57.469 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: But as I say, I'd be very interested to have the discussion at the end of a, hopefully, a relatively short presentation to see where we go. 94 \ 00:21:58.490 --> 00:22:11.209 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: The National Emergency Briefing that was given in Westminster Hall in November, which is informed the People's Emergency Briefing film, which is going around the country at the moment, I just picked out these headlines from the different presentations that were made in November. 95 \ 00:22:11.410 --> 00:22:21.490 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: There's the one. If we keep burning fossil fuels, temperatures will keep rising. These are summaries of what was said in November from various professors and other experts around the place. 96 \ 00:22:21.630 --> 00:22:24.390 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: UK getting wetter in winter, 97 \ 00:22:24.650 --> 00:22:27.449 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: If we, lose the… if the, 98 \ 00:22:29.180 --> 00:22:44.970 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Gulf Stream goes under… underwater, we don't get the benefit of it, then we'll have, still get heat waves in the summer, but we'll get, colder weathers in the winter, and less… less food growing days, which is an important issue. And we've already seen some shortage, we had some shortage of, 99 \ 00:22:45.190 --> 00:22:50.160 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: tomatoes and lettuces and so forth from North Africa and the Mediterranean last year. 100 \ 00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:54.680 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Let's get some more of those things. So there's a whole host of things coming at us. 101 \ 00:22:55.290 --> 00:22:59.560 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: that, to be not, 102 \ 00:23:00.170 --> 00:23:07.680 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: dwelt on in a way, because there are… the people who produce the people's Emergency Filming would like to get all this broadcast on the BBC, 103 \ 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:22.839 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: But that, to my mind, that's not enough, because people… no point panicking people. There has to be some practical things that people do locally in response to these issues. And that's something where we've… the great collaborations come in… come in to bring these things together. 104 \ 00:23:23.080 --> 00:23:42.610 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And the big issue at the moment, I think, is the way we tell them, because there's a lot of polarized debate in the media about these sorts of things I've got on the screen. And I think we're thinking more… we need a wellspring of more positive messages of what we do about it, rather than the sort of desperate stuff that we're getting. 105 \ 00:23:42.910 --> 00:23:50.440 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So, looking ahead then, failing to plan is playing to fail, as one of my old bosses said to me once. I didn't much appreciate it at the time, but I now know what he means. 106 \ 00:23:50.610 --> 00:24:09.780 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Wherever we are, living in the country, we know our local geography and our local people, whether we're parish councillors, whether we're part of a community project or whatever. We know we can work with our neighbours and friends, locals, to define not only the risks of what coming down to just the opportunities that we have to deal with it. 107 \ 00:24:09.840 --> 00:24:19.580 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Do… do we have waterways? Is that… that's good news, and that can be tricky news if we get sudden floods of… of… of downpours. 108 \ 00:24:19.750 --> 00:24:32.580 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So we can look at those things, because we know our local places. There is an, UK-wide, actually, not just England and Wales. England, Scotland and Northern Ireland all have resilience forums. The resilience forums do keep, 109 \ 00:24:33.170 --> 00:24:35.359 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Templates for emergency planning. 110 \ 00:24:35.500 --> 00:24:42.309 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: They don't seem to actually be in touch with each other very much. There doesn't seem to be a very strong network between these forums. 111 \ 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:54.329 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: They can provide an advice. They can tell us what sort of generic results are… generic risks are happening in our counties, in our area, so they can be sort of good at that. 112 \ 00:24:54.450 --> 00:25:11.200 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: when we produced, earlier this year, an updated community emergency plan template, and I shared it with four, resilience forums in East Anglia. I'd better not tell you which ones, but none of them actually replied to me. So, one of them was still using the 113 \ 00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:28.760 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: the 2016 template that the government produced and haven't updated, and another one was using one from another county. So, it's interesting. So, resilience forms, I suspect, are not dissimilar to other types of organization in that they vary. Oh, that's any more than that. 114 \ 00:25:28.910 --> 00:25:47.899 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And there's no escape either. We are our local people, we live where we live, we know who we, know, and we have an appreciation of the things that we need to guard against and prepare for. So there's no emergency exit for us, and particularly, of course, if we're a parish or town council, we're there. Okay. 115 \ 00:25:48.450 --> 00:26:01.889 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So, just go through key stages in the Community Emergency Plan. Where I've got a line under thing, that's, the links to the information behind this presentation are available through the presentation. Graeme will be posting it on our, 116 \ 00:26:02.360 --> 00:26:09.540 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: knowledge base, very shortly. But there are… there is an emergency plan template, 117 \ 00:26:09.750 --> 00:26:27.599 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: that we have, it's posted, actually, on the Society and Local Council Clance website at the moment. That links through to it, which can… but we're going to look at it in a bit more detail, rather than just showing you the whole template, so it is accessible. Who are the most vulnerable in our community? This is an interesting question, because 118 \ 00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:43.269 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: If we think heat waves, we think, you know, very young people, very elderly people, but how is it that we can actually be aware of who they are? How is it that we can be, find ways of contacting them, or being in touch with them, or offering them assistance? 119 \ 00:26:43.380 --> 00:26:47.510 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And being aware of how we might reach in any real emergencies. 120 \ 00:26:47.520 --> 00:27:03.829 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: We've got, obviously, data protection on the one hand, and common decency on another. We're not really necessarily going to be keeping large mailing lists of people who we think are vulnerable, but there will be other people in our community who are in touch with such organizations. I'm thinking of 121 \ 00:27:03.910 --> 00:27:15.999 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: You know, toddlers groups, nurseries, other ventures for older people may be able to help us with that, certainly in terms of getting messages around about that. 122 \ 00:27:16.300 --> 00:27:19.859 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So we have to be thinking about that as we go forward. 123 \ 00:27:20.580 --> 00:27:21.460 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So… 124 \ 00:27:21.700 --> 00:27:31.370 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: We're going to have an emergency plan. What happens if there's an emergency? There needs to be a group of people, clearly, doesn't have to be a huge number of people, that pull this together. 125 \ 00:27:31.380 --> 00:27:45.230 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Notionally, somebody from the parish council should be doing this. Notionally, people… notionally, every planning authority has a district emergency planning officer that sends templates to all the parishes and town councils around. That doesn't always seem to happen. 126 \ 00:27:45.330 --> 00:27:59.029 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And I have to admit, in my own parish where I live, the parish clerk invited me the other day she hadn't written up our emergency plan yet. So there has to be a group of people that are going to think about this and get together, get some ideas together. 127 \ 00:27:59.160 --> 00:28:02.410 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So what are we going to do? What are the risks facing us? What's, 128 \ 00:28:02.570 --> 00:28:08.859 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: What about the impact from a heat wave? Of course, we'll all be affecting a heat wave. Regardless of our geography, we'll have a heat wave. 129 \ 00:28:08.980 --> 00:28:23.560 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Floods can happen in different places. I had somebody said to me the other day, oh, we're living on a… on a hill, we don't have to worry about floods. I said, well, okay, provided that all your services and supplies can get through to you, through the waters. Oh, I hadn't thought of that. 130 \ 00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:29.430 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So we're looking at what are the impacts that are likely to happen, whether it's from floods, 131 \ 00:28:29.910 --> 00:28:33.589 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Bad weather, all kinds, heat waves. 132 \ 00:28:33.970 --> 00:28:41.550 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: what are the risks that we understand? As I say, our Resilience Forum can help us with some of that locally, and there's lots of examples in the template. 133 \ 00:28:41.950 --> 00:28:47.450 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: What do we do about it in advance? How can we prepare in advance for these risks that we've identified? 134 \ 00:28:47.500 --> 00:28:56.599 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And what do we do when they actually happen? So we're preparing for advanced preparation, what we actually do when it happens, when it's flooding, when we've got 40 degrees, or whatever it is. 135 \ 00:28:56.610 --> 00:29:09.519 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And bear in mind, there needs to be a bit of a… likely to be a bit of a recovery period afterwards, depending on, of course, how long these emergencies last. I mean, we've had, you know, 4 or 5 days of very high heat, for example, recently. 136 \ 00:29:10.230 --> 00:29:13.600 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So those are the… where are we going? Right, okay. 137 \ 00:29:13.770 --> 00:29:22.910 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So, what have we got that can help us with that? What are the local skills? What people do we have? What resources do we have that can help us when we're dealing with these 138 \ 00:29:22.950 --> 00:29:37.409 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: emergencies, either in advance or at the time. What about places of safety? This is a particular thing in many UG emergency plans. If we've got car accidents, we've got any kind of thing, where can people go and feel safe? 139 \ 00:29:37.520 --> 00:29:55.909 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: In terms of a heat wave in my village, the 15th century Parish church is probably the… almost certainly the coolest place to be. But where are these places that can be used? And of course, we then need to make sure that the people who are operating those buildings are happy for them to use it in this way. 140 \ 00:29:56.710 --> 00:30:09.939 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: an emergency happens, who do we speak to? Who are you going to call? How do we get in touch with each other? Bearing in mind, I put communications in brackets in there, because one of the emergencies that might happen might affect our phone systems, it might affect our mobile phones, even. 141 \ 00:30:10.020 --> 00:30:22.090 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: How do we actually make sure that we can speak to each other, even if there's a sort of breakdown in those digital communications? Because BT are busy putting us all together into the digital world, whether we lug it or not. 142 \ 00:30:22.090 --> 00:30:32.710 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: the old landlines are not going to be operating quite so well, so we'd be sort of thinking about that. Power cuts, of course, will have a big effect on our phones if they're just linked into the web. 143 \ 00:30:33.280 --> 00:30:44.090 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: What about organisations that can help? We're thinking about not going to be doing it all ourselves. This is about gathering the resources, getting people together locally. We know what we're going to be preparing for. 144 \ 00:30:44.470 --> 00:30:47.660 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: We have an idea what we might do, who's going to help with that? 145 \ 00:30:47.790 --> 00:31:02.630 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And certainly, in terms of producing a plan, it would be foolish to put it to bed without speaking to our local emergency services, fire, ambulance, police, whatever it is, sharing what we've got, so that they know about it. They may have some things they want to suggest. 146 \ 00:31:02.630 --> 00:31:14.010 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: But they need to know also that we have such a plan, and that there are people they can be in touch with about it. So that's a quick rundown of what, the process and stages of a community emergency plan. 147 \ 00:31:14.670 --> 00:31:26.879 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So, if we look at a bit more detail, here's an example. This is from the actual template that there's links to that we've produced for the Great Collaborations on the SLCC website. So, what's the impact on the community? 148 \ 00:31:27.050 --> 00:31:29.939 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: How can we prepare for an action when it happens? 149 \ 00:31:30.070 --> 00:31:35.330 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: The link you got at the top there is from the government's PREPARE campaign. 150 \ 00:31:35.390 --> 00:31:39.710 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So a lot of the information that we've got here, we've taken from that. 151 \ 00:31:39.710 --> 00:32:00.030 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: This is the kind of information we feel should be on an emergency plan template, so that people can have some, you know, start of a 10 as to what the issues might be, and what they might begin to think about doing. So, yes, increased risks of overheating, dehydration, heat exhaustion, heat stroke, absolutely. Disruption to essential services, obviously heat waves can affect parent cups, there have been 152 \ 00:32:00.030 --> 00:32:04.110 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Parts of the country that did have power cuts due to the heat wave in recent times. 153 \ 00:32:04.120 --> 00:32:14.199 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: I think… I'm not sure where… I think there are some places in the country already that have water restrictions this summer, and higher risks of wildfire. 154 \ 00:32:14.300 --> 00:32:23.109 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So, we're talking back to our vulnerable people, how do we know people can think about heat exhaustion, think about it in advance? What do we do? 155 \ 00:32:23.330 --> 00:32:37.179 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: What about, having hydration? People need water under these circumstances, ready access to it. What about more shading, ventilation, places of that nature? And what about potential cool spaces? I mentioned the Paris church where I live. 156 \ 00:32:37.180 --> 00:32:44.209 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: There may be others where people can actually, not only get some water, but also get a bit of a break from the heat. 157 \ 00:32:44.320 --> 00:33:00.729 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And when the heat wave happens, let's get, communicating, let's make… remind people what's about, directing people to what they can do about it to cool down, be careful of each other. And if we have to find… deliver water to different places, this is… this may not… 158 \ 00:33:00.730 --> 00:33:04.479 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: be something for everybody. These are just examples of things that might be done. 159 \ 00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:19.929 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And then you can, when you're looking at your community emergency plan, you think, well, that doesn't apply to us, but that does. Oh, and by the way, there's some other things we should be thinking about, because of the nature of our community and the nature of our geography. 160 \ 00:33:19.930 --> 00:33:30.700 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: If we're in a community of France where there's a lot of people whose first language isn't English, for instance, what are we thinking about that? How do we communicate things to those individuals in advance, and so on. 161 \ 00:33:30.760 --> 00:33:33.859 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So everywhere will be different. So the template that we've got… 162 \ 00:33:33.980 --> 00:33:45.070 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: is a sort of a starter for town, there's lots of advice in it, but each area will need to… each parish or town council, for example, will need to think about what makes sense where they are. 163 \ 00:33:46.550 --> 00:34:05.049 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Okay. So, in terms of heat waves particularly, we have published some more detail on our Great Collaboration Knowledge Base. This is just a quick summary of it. Certainly, check the weather and travel warnings. We've had various travel warnings. People saying, don't travel by train in the heat wave, because apparently above 36 degrees Cels degrade, 164 \ 00:34:05.110 --> 00:34:09.940 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: train… train rails aren't very reliable. Bit of a worry, isn't it? But there we go. 165 \ 00:34:10.190 --> 00:34:19.459 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Turn the heating off, seems a bit obvious. We've got the fridges working, so everybody we know is aware of what they can be doing about it, and we can take care of our friends and neighbors. 166 \ 00:34:19.790 --> 00:34:26.380 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Refillable bottle of water. Water is going to be, obviously, a critical factor, and variability of water in any heat wave. 167 \ 00:34:26.550 --> 00:34:40.060 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Certainly keep out of the sun if we can. Walking the dog, there'll be some… some dogs will say, well, I'm not going out in that. Sometimes we'll get, told off by the hand, we're not… we're not gonna… we're gonna stay in here in the cool, thank you very much. 168 \ 00:34:40.179 --> 00:34:55.650 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And certainly there are things we can do about using curtains. It seems a bit daft. Usually we pull curtains to keep the heat in. The pool curtains are perhaps to keep the sun out. So there's some things that we can be thinking about in detail. 169 \ 00:34:55.850 --> 00:35:07.190 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So this is the kind of information you would think in terms of if you were circulating around your community. If we're going to get the heat wave, and we are going to get more heat waves, these are the kind of things to be aware of. 170 \ 00:35:07.200 --> 00:35:16.970 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: I don't think the government has sent around anything to every household in the country on this nature for quite some time, so we have to think about doing it for ourselves. 171 \ 00:35:18.550 --> 00:35:30.439 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Refills. Now, there's a charity set up, to reduce the plastic uses. This is something to do with reaction to climate change. People keep using and throwing away plastic bottles. 172 \ 00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:41.229 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: keep a plastic bottle, and then actually refill it from place to place. So, to start with, that was very much about reducing plastic, but now very much more about availability of water. 173 \ 00:35:41.800 --> 00:35:45.119 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And this is taken from that charity's web page. 174 \ 00:35:45.310 --> 00:36:01.500 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So there are… if we can think about organizations that have public buildings, places that can have the capacity to offer the opportunity for people to refill their bottles with water, let's think about that. And, we can also have… 175 \ 00:36:01.570 --> 00:36:19.400 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: They've also got an app where people can have a hold of that, see what's happening in their area. There's an example there of seeing what Manchester is doing in order to do that. And if we want to become a refill destination through their national connection onto their app, then there's a process there of dealing with that. 176 \ 00:36:19.590 --> 00:36:32.130 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So, funnily enough, an awful lot of emergencies were talking about either not enough water or too much water. Water is a very important topic in our lives. 177 \ 00:36:32.420 --> 00:36:39.740 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So there's something to think about as to where do people… where we live, where does… where can people go and fill their… refill their water bottles? 178 \ 00:36:41.550 --> 00:36:56.950 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Now then, cold water shock. We get it on the news, and it's not just in our nation as well. I think somebody was saying the weekend, 40 young people in Paris had died from jumping into rivers and not being, and getting into cold water shock, not being able to save themselves. 179 \ 00:36:57.510 --> 00:37:13.540 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: what happens when we're leaping into cold water on a hot day? If we think about when we get into a swimming pool for the first time, and the first reaction is, you know, a bit cold to start with, and we start hyperventilating. 180 \ 00:37:13.550 --> 00:37:26.770 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: But if that stage continues, if we're still getting cold and hyperventilating, the body tends to put all the… move the blood to the center of the body to keep us, well. That's why we get to… we get… people go pale with cold and shock. 181 \ 00:37:27.110 --> 00:37:36.779 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And ultimately, if people aren't saved or can't get me out again, your muscles cool, and you get what's called swim failure, and we just actually can't swim and save ourselves. 182 \ 00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:38.690 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: That's the sort of… 183 \ 00:37:38.940 --> 00:37:46.779 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: medical stages that we go through as individuals jumping into cold water. 47% of accidental drownings occur in the summertime. 184 \ 00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:53.020 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So there is some safety advice, that's something I've copied there, which is a useful image. 185 \ 00:37:53.140 --> 00:38:04.829 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Don't just jump straight into unknown water. Again, this is something we need to share with our people in our communities, particularly, of course, if we have a river or a lake or anything like that in our local area. 186 \ 00:38:05.060 --> 00:38:15.470 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And it may be very appropriate to have signs up around them. If you're going to get in the water, okay, but get in gradually. Wearing protective or visible gear if possible. 187 \ 00:38:15.690 --> 00:38:26.710 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Don't thrash around if you're getting to difficulties, because actually you won't be able to save yourself. Float on the surface, they say. Float on the surface, so you're keeping… getting warmer, till your breathing recovers, and call for help. 188 \ 00:38:26.920 --> 00:38:35.369 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And if you see so many difficulties, don't jump in yourself, because then you end up in the same situations they are if you're not careful. Send them something that floats. 189 \ 00:38:35.780 --> 00:38:41.320 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And never go wild swimming on your own. So this is basically safety advice, which is shared by… from a number of sources. 190 \ 00:38:41.590 --> 00:38:52.660 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And we need to think about having that available in our local areas for people, and so that we get less of these, very tragic, usually junior fatalities. 191 \ 00:38:53.820 --> 00:38:59.429 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And the cold water shock there at the top, there's a link to more information about it. 192 \ 00:39:00.010 --> 00:39:07.100 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Wildlife can also suffer. Local wildlife don't want to be… we don't want to… the ducks don't want to be disturbed by us jumping into where they live. 193 \ 00:39:07.200 --> 00:39:26.450 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Again, a number of places can put up signs about, warnings, that, be careful of wildlife in these occasions. There's a bit of a controversy in Hampstead Heath, some lakes there at Hampstead Heath in London during this recent heat wave, where some places were set aside for 194 \ 00:39:26.450 --> 00:39:31.410 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Public human use, and some places were set aside for wildlife. 195 \ 00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:41.240 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And blow me, a lot of people are just jumping into the wildlife places and ignoring all the signs. So, we can be thinking about wildlife as well when we're thinking about heat waves. 196 \ 00:39:41.310 --> 00:39:54.710 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: We can be thinking about how we support them. Again, there's World Wildlife Fund, and treat them and produce advice on how we can help out with helping our local wildlife to survive in these occasions. And don't forget, of course, our pets. 197 \ 00:39:54.930 --> 00:40:03.010 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: You know, the dogs that don't want to go for a walk. Same thing applies, you know, water and shade and so forth. Some of this stuff may seem obvious. 198 \ 00:40:03.080 --> 00:40:16.049 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Some of this stuff may well be obvious, but how do we make sure that everybody in our area knows it, and how do we know that we can provide water and shade when it's required? These are open questions for each place. 199 \ 00:40:16.890 --> 00:40:17.940 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Okay. 200 \ 00:40:19.260 --> 00:40:37.250 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: The government's PREPARE campaign, which I never… I can't remember how I got to hear about it, hasn't been very well advertised. It goes on about all these different things. It's covering a whole load of other things. We're looking at other issues, other potential emergencies. The government has produced quite a lot of information on it, and these links will take you through to it all. 201 \ 00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:40.870 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: But the one thing that's not there is food shortages. 202 \ 00:40:41.450 --> 00:40:50.179 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Obviously, a number of these things, floods, power cuts, heat waves, wildfires even, can actually result in local food shortages. 203 \ 00:40:50.550 --> 00:40:56.499 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: But there's no thought about that in this government's campaign, and no suggestions about how we might prepare in advance for it. 204 \ 00:40:56.820 --> 00:41:08.300 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Now, there is a website and a connection you can get it after, it's called Sustainable Food Places, which is really about local area food partnerships. You know, what can we arrange again in our local area? 205 \ 00:41:08.300 --> 00:41:18.239 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Who are the food providers? What are the things that we might need? How do we manage things? How do we look forward, as well, over the longer term, as well as the shorter term? Shorter term, yes, we can have 206 \ 00:41:18.240 --> 00:41:30.500 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: We can have food banks, yes, we can have community fridges, but what about the longer term as well? What about, do we need to grow more of our own food? What about new allotments, for example? All of these kind of discussions. 207 \ 00:41:30.500 --> 00:41:45.739 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So, this is something that wasn't and isn't on the Government's Compare campaign, but it has something we have put in the community emergency plan template, because we're desperately sure it needs to be in there, seeing as we import about 50% of our food in this nation anyway. 208 \ 00:41:45.870 --> 00:41:52.119 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So all those links will be there for you when you access these notes. 209 \ 00:41:52.380 --> 00:41:56.700 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: when we, should I… 210 \ 00:41:57.100 --> 00:42:01.839 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: I'll link on one, you can see it, see what happens when I do that. 211 \ 00:42:02.140 --> 00:42:04.309 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: What else not working? Oh, here it comes. 212 \ 00:42:04.610 --> 00:42:10.919 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: It's the sort of thing you get from, when you're looking at one of those links, and you get all this on government. 213 \ 00:42:11.350 --> 00:42:23.999 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: There's all the list of them. It talks about pollution forecasts, talks about who's at risk, talks about actions you can take for information, and that sort of information is there for all of these different topics on this government website. 214 \ 00:42:25.110 --> 00:42:26.060 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Okay. 215 \ 00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:28.719 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Hold on. 216 \ 00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:33.189 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Oh, where have I gone now? 217 \ 00:42:33.420 --> 00:42:34.440 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Probably not. 218 \ 00:42:36.310 --> 00:42:38.140 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: I've lost my presentation, notice. 219 \ 00:42:39.810 --> 00:42:50.170 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So lots of information out there, lots of issues to take in, but obviously some of these things will be particularly relevant in our local areas, some of them will be more national, such as heat moves. 220 \ 00:42:50.780 --> 00:42:52.449 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Well, this is the last image. 221 \ 00:42:55.040 --> 00:43:01.919 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: I'm… I'm jealous of this chap, because he's… not only has he got some nice cold water on his face, he's got less white hair than I have, but never mind. 222 \ 00:43:03.800 --> 00:43:12.500 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: What about the future, then? We're talking about emergency planning. What about water in our area? We know that there are some national debates about we need more reservoirs. 223 \ 00:43:13.110 --> 00:43:21.580 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: what else is going to be happening about that? How can we be sure about our local energy supplies, which affect a lot of the ways that we can live and work? 224 \ 00:43:21.810 --> 00:43:27.710 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Certainly, local energy necessary for communications, potentially also for water supplies. 225 \ 00:43:28.860 --> 00:43:47.460 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: looking ahead, and I think there's… we're beginning to get together some ideas of what the world might be like, or the country might be like in 10 years' time. We'll be beginning to get together some thoughts about what kind of general advice we need to be sharing and looking at. And ultimately, of course, we need to be saying. 226 \ 00:43:47.570 --> 00:44:05.220 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: what's the messages that we send out to people? Because at the moment, there's an awful lot of doom and gloom in the media, from one side of the debate on the other, about the effects of climate change. We need some more positive messages, and I know the center for Sustainment and Energy has been well advanced in that for… as well. 227 \ 00:44:05.460 --> 00:44:06.760 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: organization. 228 \ 00:44:06.990 --> 00:44:13.429 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So we need to be thinking again about… let's make sure that we can have some good times ahead. 229 \ 00:44:13.550 --> 00:44:17.650 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: With water and energy, and our good friends around us. 230 \ 00:44:19.390 --> 00:44:32.929 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So, as I say, there's a bit there. The presentation and those links will be made available after this meeting. I'll have a quick look at the chats, Graeme, but I don't know whether you want to manage any questions. 231 \ 00:44:38.350 --> 00:44:41.019 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: You're muted, Greg. 232 \ 00:44:42.220 --> 00:44:47.270 \ Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Thanks. No, Stuart is way ahead of me, so by all means, let me start with Stuart. 233 \ 00:44:49.350 --> 00:44:53.450 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: I think that was a nice little summary. One thing… 234 \ 00:44:53.930 --> 00:44:56.750 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: That seems to be missing is, air conditioning. 235 \ 00:44:57.970 --> 00:44:59.310 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: I thought about that. 236 \ 00:44:59.570 --> 00:45:03.799 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: I must say, I fitted air conditioning here 237 \ 00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:07.890 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: a couple of years ago, and I've been very pleased with it. 238 \ 00:45:08.460 --> 00:45:08.790 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Okay. 239 \ 00:45:08.790 --> 00:45:16.130 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: And I think… The government seem to have a downer on it. They don't want people installing air conditioning. 240 \ 00:45:16.310 --> 00:45:24.309 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Alright. I think, if you're on a, using renewables, green energy tariff, or you have solar PV, 241 \ 00:45:24.660 --> 00:45:27.720 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: I think it's a very good option. 242 \ 00:45:28.360 --> 00:45:35.730 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Okay. I did read somewhere in the press that the online purchases of air conditioning units have actually rocketed in the last. 243 \ 00:45:35.730 --> 00:45:36.130 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Yes. 244 \ 00:45:36.130 --> 00:45:42.789 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: I thought about including it, and I thought, well, there's a whole load of things there about, which I don't… 245 \ 00:45:42.790 --> 00:45:56.240 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: fully grasped about the finances, about the costs, about the issues around air conditioning. But I'm glad you've mentioned it, because it is going to… it's another option, isn't it? Certainly at a household level. 246 \ 00:45:56.950 --> 00:46:00.790 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Well, I think not just for the air conditioning, keeping cool. 247 \ 00:46:01.070 --> 00:46:01.470 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Right. 248 \ 00:46:01.470 --> 00:46:03.849 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: But it'll also keep you warm in the winter. 249 \ 00:46:04.450 --> 00:46:04.800 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: risk. 250 \ 00:46:04.800 --> 00:46:09.000 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Let's say if you're using green energy, you're going to reduce your gas consumption. 251 \ 00:46:10.260 --> 00:46:14.780 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: That's true. Yeah. No, that's sound. Okay. 252 \ 00:46:14.780 --> 00:46:28.769 \ Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: I think there's a case to be made, just for those who are not sure, that heat pumps will also churn out cold air. So, rather than have heating and air conditioning, you might be better off just putting in a heat pump and doing both with the same device. 253 \ 00:46:30.430 --> 00:46:36.430 \ Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Certainly, I know that the old village hall that I came from in Somerset held a 254 \ 00:46:36.940 --> 00:46:55.550 \ Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: a theater show last Saturday, so it was very hot, they had 125 people in a room that was, you know, really best designed to cope with them, and there were people putting on opera in a box, so that there were people prancing around the stage and swimming and singing, and lots of heat generated. 255 \ 00:46:55.550 --> 00:47:09.629 \ Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: And the, air-to-air heat pumps had no problem at all in coping with that. They were fine. And, as you say, they're coming from… the roof has got 36… no, 60 panels of solar panels on it, so… 256 \ 00:47:09.660 --> 00:47:11.999 \ Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: They're more or less self-sustaining. 257 \ 00:47:12.040 --> 00:47:17.050 \ Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: So, absolutely, heat pumps, and I think Stuart's idea is completely right. 258 \ 00:47:17.600 --> 00:47:18.240 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Wonder. 259 \ 00:47:18.830 --> 00:47:26.490 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: I thank you for the link in the chat to the London Community Resilience Toolkit, which looks fascinating. 260 \ 00:47:26.650 --> 00:47:33.800 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So I think we should be making a look at… having a look at that to Grim. Dan, you've got your hand up, mate. 261 \ 00:47:34.410 --> 00:47:48.160 \ Dan Stone: Yeah, thanks. Yeah, I was wanting to… I'll put some… some thoughts in the chat around what, what parish councils might be able to do about, kind of, extreme heat. I think there's lots they can do about, kind of, thinking long-term about 262 \ 00:47:48.350 --> 00:47:55.329 \ Dan Stone: plant… shade planting, you know, because, you know, you stick in a tree next to a kind of, 263 \ 00:47:55.650 --> 00:48:08.039 \ Dan Stone: a playground that currently has no shade, and it might cost you 90 quid, but in 30 years' time, it's going to be really, kind of, valuable, basically. And then another thought was just about, kind of. 264 \ 00:48:08.180 --> 00:48:22.240 \ Dan Stone: I guess the public's current poor understanding of what you should actually do in a heat wave, you know, I think we're not very good at it in this country. Lots of people open all the windows, and, you know, you suffer the 265 \ 00:48:22.410 --> 00:48:34.109 \ Dan Stone: through the ravages of the heat of the day, basically. And so, you know, sort of… that's sort of acting like an Italian behavior that we're not used to yet, and some sort of cheap, 266 \ 00:48:34.700 --> 00:48:42.319 \ Dan Stone: kind of DIY heat hacks, you know, like putting our bedsheets outside your windows to keep the heat out, all of that stuff. 267 \ 00:48:42.430 --> 00:48:49.050 \ Dan Stone: I think, parish councils could do a really good job of helping disseminate some of that information. 268 \ 00:48:50.550 --> 00:48:53.490 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: That's a good point, yes, and, you know, obviously. 269 \ 00:48:53.900 --> 00:49:12.530 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: You don't think of pulling the curtains when it's… when it's hot as when it's cold, but actually there's some value of it. Deborah, thank you for your, note there. Some of those worst affected by heat are in rented accommodation. Yeah, because there are… there are lots of ramifications… once you start talking about this and looking around it, there are lots of ramifications. 270 \ 00:49:12.620 --> 00:49:20.689 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: What about people who are not putting in these facilities for their residents and tenants? Is that the kind of point you wanted to make, Deborah? 271 \ 00:49:20.690 --> 00:49:34.550 \ Deborah Mason: Yeah, and just, you know, I… I didn't realize this was parish councillors. Somebody sent this to me from the Eco Hub, and they sent out some advice on, you know, keeping cool, and some of it was so… 272 \ 00:49:34.550 --> 00:49:50.810 \ Deborah Mason: obviously privileged and the sort of middle-class homeowner. You've got a garden, plant a tree, you can put stuff on your outside windows. If you live on the, like, 18th floor of a tower block, well, good luck not dying trying to get two outside windows, and good luck… 273 \ 00:49:50.810 --> 00:49:56.880 \ Deborah Mason: not dying of the heat as well. And also things like, you know, even… 274 \ 00:49:56.910 --> 00:50:05.109 \ Deborah Mason: You know, temporary aircon units that even go through a window, you know, your landlord isn't going to let you cut a hole in the window. 275 \ 00:50:05.110 --> 00:50:28.919 \ Deborah Mason: your landlord isn't going to let you install shutters, or heat pumps, or anything like that, so there are many people for whom… and one of the pieces of advice was swap your bedsheets for linen and bamboo, and it's like, a lot of people, you know, are on bedsheets they got from the charity shop, quite frankly. You know, they can't afford to just rush out and buy some lovely bamboo and linen sheets from John Lewis, and I think 276 \ 00:50:29.120 --> 00:50:42.249 \ Deborah Mason: you know, it's just a fact of life that often in both local politics and in environment and all the rest of it, the people who have time to have a think about these things and send out the advice are the privileged. Oh, you know, I'm not… 277 \ 00:50:42.250 --> 00:51:06.890 \ Deborah Mason: I'm not living in a flat on the 17th floor either, but, you know, they are the privileged, and it's quite easy to reach for solutions that would suit them, and not think more broadly about what the heck can you do? You know, there was a… I live in Maidenhead, and we get the local news from London, and there was a really quite upsetting story of a family in London with a tiny baby living in a high-rise flat. 278 \ 00:51:06.890 --> 00:51:19.289 \ Deborah Mason: At the top, where all the heat was rising up to, where they couldn't get their flat cool, where they were endless… they… they couldn't bear to sleep through the night because they didn't know that their baby would survive the heat. 279 \ 00:51:19.420 --> 00:51:24.710 \ Deborah Mason: And, you know, even cool places, you know, you can't spend the night in the library. 280 \ 00:51:25.190 --> 00:51:42.309 \ Deborah Mason: And it's sort of, you know, I think more concern needs to be given to the people who are truly going to be affected by this, you know, the vulnerable people, yeah, but actually some of those vulnerable people wouldn't be vulnerable outside of a heat wave, but they are specifically affected by the places that they live in. 281 \ 00:51:42.970 --> 00:51:44.370 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Yeah, I think that's right. 282 \ 00:51:44.370 --> 00:52:08.830 \ Deborah Mason: just in terms of, like, the advice that we put out to kind of always be mindful, at least of wording it, that this might not be suitable for everybody. You know, if you have this opportunity, take it. Perhaps you can share something, you know, or even just, if you've got a spare fan, does somebody else need it? Things like that, where we're constantly thinking about the people who, you know, can't afford to pay over the… I mean, well, I don't think you can actually buy a fan in 283 \ 00:52:08.830 --> 00:52:25.390 \ Deborah Mason: at the moment, or anything approaching a cooling device, that would actually get delivered in time for the next heat wave and not in time for Christmas. So, you know, I think there's… there's a lot of, you know, sharing opportunities to be found here. 284 \ 00:52:25.410 --> 00:52:28.360 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: I think that's a great word, isn't it? Sharing, yeah. 285 \ 00:52:28.360 --> 00:52:42.530 \ Deborah Mason: And, you know, the point of community support, as well as finding those vulnerable people in your community, is just finding who has what and who needs what, rather than just necessarily specifically focusing on the vulnerable, because 286 \ 00:52:42.530 --> 00:53:06.969 \ Deborah Mason: all sorts of things that you, you know, people who take antidepressants are particularly vulnerable to heat, because they… some of the antidepressants depress the cooling mechanisms of the body. They wouldn't be considered vulnerable, perhaps in other circumstances, if that depression is being managed by those drugs. So, you know, they may not present as vulnerable in the same way as the older person might, or a very young child might, or a disabled person who's, like, very clearly physically disabled might, so I think 287 \ 00:53:06.970 --> 00:53:14.760 \ Deborah Mason: We do need to be kind of broadly mindful of all the different vulnerabilities in our communities, and try and encourage people to share what they can. 288 \ 00:53:15.520 --> 00:53:31.540 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Right, really, yeah. We've talked… there's a lot of publicity, quite rightly so, about a just transition in response to climate change, because people who are less well-off are going to be more vulnerable and more greatly affected, and that's bearing up what you're saying. 289 \ 00:53:31.830 --> 00:53:33.900 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Thanks very much. Joanne? 290 \ 00:53:34.710 --> 00:53:43.990 \ Joanne Stone, Shiplake PC: I'd say two things. One is, we need to educate the children, because it seems to be a forgotten thing, because I was brought up in, 291 \ 00:53:44.040 --> 00:53:57.160 \ Joanne Stone, Shiplake PC: you know, that you had to shut the curtains during the day to keep the heat out, so I'm just surprised that people don't sort of… you know, this seems to be reinvented. But I was gonna say that our local radio station, they had on, 292 \ 00:53:57.340 --> 00:54:06.030 \ Joanne Stone, Shiplake PC: About, you know, the heat and all the rest of it, but they were also saying, the trouble is that buildings now aren't built 293 \ 00:54:06.050 --> 00:54:10.050 \ Joanne Stone, Shiplake PC: to, withstand the heat. You know, we're always worried about… 294 \ 00:54:10.050 --> 00:54:34.110 \ Joanne Stone, Shiplake PC: the cold and all the sort of insulation, all the rest of it. But if you go back to lots of the old cottages and things, where they had to do their 3-foot walls and things, they were quite a constant temperature inside. I'm not concluding upstairs, where it was probably quite freezing in the winter. But, I mean, they're much cooler, aren't they? And they were actually saying that what we need to be doing is, you know, more insulation to keep the heat out, and not to keep the heat in. 295 \ 00:54:34.110 --> 00:54:42.719 \ Joanne Stone, Shiplake PC: So it partly goes back to, we need to re-look at the building regs and things as well, because they're building these matchbox houses. 296 \ 00:54:42.720 --> 00:54:54.740 \ Joanne Stone, Shiplake PC: running them up, you know, really quickly, but they're not necessarily fit for purpose, are they? And building regs always take an age to change, so I just think that needs to be thrown into the pot. 297 \ 00:54:54.900 --> 00:55:06.030 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: My perception of how we approach the future is at two levels. Certainly, what I call the horizontal level, what we can do locally, and how we can work better amongst ourselves. 298 \ 00:55:06.080 --> 00:55:18.809 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: and share things, as Debra was pointing out. But also, occasionally there needs to be a bit of, campaigning upwards to get things moved down up there. What we now know, of course, which is beginning to become gradually more apparent. 299 \ 00:55:18.830 --> 00:55:27.890 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: is that there is… the spare cash isn't available at government level, so what then is the answer? You know, there's no point saying. 300 \ 00:55:28.210 --> 00:55:38.750 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: there's two things. You can't say, you know, it's somebody else's job, therefore, why don't I just complain about it? But the other side is, what do we actually do in practical terms? 301 \ 00:55:38.890 --> 00:55:44.620 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Both in terms of campaigning and in terms of, in some cases, finance and so forth. 302 \ 00:55:44.630 --> 00:55:58.590 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And I think the ways of doing that, we've got a project that we had a presentation for recently from the Isle of Wight, where they're talking about a network of energy batteries around the island. 303 \ 00:55:58.590 --> 00:56:13.330 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: that people can actually gather in, particularly when it's cheaper, and have it available as a resource that they can share with each other. And they had a particular thought that they realized that, of course, some people simply can't afford to buy these batteries. 304 \ 00:56:13.330 --> 00:56:31.640 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And so they were thinking about how they would cope with that as well. And I was encouraged by that initiative, because I think that's the kind of approach that we need across the country, for all different needs and resources as well. How do we do it? How do we get people together? And what about people who actually don't have a lot of money to spare? 305 \ 00:56:31.700 --> 00:56:36.559 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So I think… I think we're… we're on the same line there. 306 \ 00:56:36.990 --> 00:56:40.009 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: I'm beginning to think that there, ultimately, there may be some kind of… 307 \ 00:56:40.120 --> 00:56:57.020 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And I'm conscious also that London and very heavy built-up areas will have different issues and opportunities, as well as the more rural areas, but I think we'd still need to be gathering these ideas. If people weren't taught it at school, for whatever reason, that we need to make sure that they've got that information. 308 \ 00:56:57.340 --> 00:56:59.700 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Thanks for that, Joan. Stuart? 309 \ 00:57:00.770 --> 00:57:07.850 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Yeah, I was just gonna say, I agree totally with the previous two speakers, Deborah and Joanne. 310 \ 00:57:08.170 --> 00:57:15.630 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: It's not just older buildings, there was a picture I saw in The Guardian fairly recently. 311 \ 00:57:15.790 --> 00:57:19.979 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: There was a new, tower block being opened. 312 \ 00:57:20.160 --> 00:57:22.830 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Somewhere near the Blackwall Tunnel. 313 \ 00:57:23.310 --> 00:57:31.109 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: And one of the residents had in big letters in one of the windows, saying, do not buy one of these flats. They are like a furnace. 314 \ 00:57:31.690 --> 00:57:32.900 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Good lord. 315 \ 00:57:32.900 --> 00:57:36.300 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: And, as I say, this is a brand new block. 316 \ 00:57:36.590 --> 00:57:45.689 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: But they were having trouble selling them, and the people who had bought them, couldn't offload them, just because of overheating. 317 \ 00:57:45.690 --> 00:57:46.390 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Right. 318 \ 00:57:46.390 --> 00:57:52.319 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: I think there's a lot that could be done with better design. As you said about the building regs. 319 \ 00:57:53.890 --> 00:58:08.009 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: you can build houses in such a way that the sort of south-facing windows, in the winter, when the sun's low, they let in lots of nice light and this, that, and the other. As the sun goes higher, in the summer. 320 \ 00:58:08.180 --> 00:58:12.890 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: They're actually shaded, so they don't overheat as much. 321 \ 00:58:13.310 --> 00:58:16.550 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: I think we could have a lot more in the way of shutters. 322 \ 00:58:16.790 --> 00:58:26.120 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: And I think shutters on buildings actually look quite attractive. Or even just shades that, you pull down. 323 \ 00:58:26.660 --> 00:58:28.540 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Simply put… 324 \ 00:58:28.540 --> 00:58:46.740 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: I know the last Conservative government was having plans to upgrade the business regulations in certain ways. That was going to go into force last year, then there was a change of government, and I'm not sure whether the building regs… I mean, you may know the answer to this, Dan, whether the building regs have actually been changed at all in the last 12 months. 325 \ 00:58:47.090 --> 00:58:53.940 \ Dan Stone: Yeah, yeah, they… I'm not sure about in the last 12 months, but the future home standard has come into force. 326 \ 00:58:53.940 --> 00:58:54.490 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Right. 327 \ 00:58:54.490 --> 00:59:05.610 \ Dan Stone: the full standard has come into force, and there is a new section on overheating, and I think it sets out regulations on window size. 328 \ 00:59:05.630 --> 00:59:18.889 \ Dan Stone: according to the size of the rooms. What it doesn't do, of course, is talk about the kind of external sort of shade… I don't think external shading's included. It doesn't sort of set anything about landscaping, and there's so much you can do. 329 \ 00:59:18.900 --> 00:59:30.500 \ Dan Stone: for how development is landscaped, and whether you've got, you know, housing in a sea of black tarmac with no trees, that's going to massively increase your risks. There's also still permitted development rights 330 \ 00:59:30.540 --> 00:59:38.070 \ Dan Stone: It's a… it's a travesty that allows people to kind of, you know, subdivide and convert a commercial 331 \ 00:59:38.210 --> 00:59:55.050 \ Dan Stone: building into residential… into flats, and there's no controls, really, on, kind of, overheating risk, basically, and so you're basically creating sweat boxes, hot boxes, and it's really, really appalling, so there needs to be some change there. 332 \ 00:59:56.000 --> 01:00:02.989 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: I mean, Dan, you've got the planning desk for the center for Sustainable Energy, I believe, yes. So this is. 333 \ 01:00:02.990 --> 01:00:04.619 \ Dan Stone: Probably never quite in that, but yeah. 334 \ 01:00:04.640 --> 01:00:07.849 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Okay, I don't mean to run you down. 335 \ 01:00:07.850 --> 01:00:08.929 \ Dan Stone: No, no, it's right there. 336 \ 01:00:08.930 --> 01:00:12.409 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: But you were the obvious person for me to ask that question. 337 \ 01:00:12.410 --> 01:00:13.040 \ Dan Stone: Yeah, yeah. 338 \ 01:00:13.040 --> 01:00:32.670 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Yeah. What do you think, well, there's so many changes at number 10 and everywhere else, whatever. Is there… what would you think, how can we actually, as lowly individuals, move… help move towards a more sensible design standards? 339 \ 01:00:32.840 --> 01:00:34.720 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: What, what was… what's the answer? 340 \ 01:00:34.720 --> 01:00:46.379 \ Dan Stone: I mean, I sort of feel like, you know, there's never let a good crisis go to waste, and I sort of feel that, you know, if we have a few more of these kind of heat waves going through. 341 \ 01:00:46.510 --> 01:00:49.760 \ Dan Stone: You know, we just need to sort of do a good job of, sort of. 342 \ 01:00:50.240 --> 01:01:05.419 \ Dan Stone: telling those stories of how, kind of, you know, extreme heat is affecting people. You know, like that poor, poor family in the top floor flap that you were talking about. I mean, that's absolutely appalling. So, I sort of feel that this summer. 343 \ 01:01:05.950 --> 01:01:17.100 \ Dan Stone: you know, the need for adaptation and sort of greater resilience to extreme heat is really having… it really seems to be cutting through, basically. But I think we can do a good job to support that. 344 \ 01:01:17.250 --> 01:01:25.890 \ Dan Stone: by kind of, you know, expressing those stories, basically, and joining up with other organizations to put those messages across. That's certainly what we're trying to do. 345 \ 01:01:26.230 --> 01:01:32.019 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Right, I'll just make a note and gather the stories and share, yeah, okay. 346 \ 01:01:32.640 --> 01:01:34.140 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Okay, 347 \ 01:01:35.630 --> 01:01:46.600 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: I begin to get into the habit of making notes to myself in the chat, so… but, there we go. I know Graeme will be… you'll be… you tend to post the chat on the… with the recordings, don't you, Graeme? 348 \ 01:01:46.930 --> 01:01:50.759 \ Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: I do indeed, and I tend to turn the, 349 \ 01:01:52.150 --> 01:02:08.380 \ Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: requests for links and so forth into the links themselves, but mentioning to Dan that he's made a comment about how useful the CCC report is. Is it possible, Dan, you could put the link up there for that particular report? Because when you look at their website, they've got lots and lots and lots of reports to go through. 350 \ 01:02:09.270 --> 01:02:11.549 \ Dan Stone: Sure, have done, sorry, I thought I had… 351 \ 01:02:11.550 --> 01:02:13.299 \ Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Thank you, yeah, that's pretty kind. 352 \ 01:02:14.760 --> 01:02:30.169 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So I think where… how we organize ourselves, wherever it is that we're living, how do we get in touch with people around us in order to prepare at the local level for these things that are coming? We're talking about heat waves, which is going to affect everybody in the country. 353 \ 01:02:30.290 --> 01:02:39.629 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: It is… is something that, if we're talking about, town and parish councils in a way, that's a straightforward. 354 \ 01:02:39.820 --> 01:02:56.110 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: approach, then we're going to be starting from those organisations as a way of getting acts together and getting people to join up with things. Obviously, a lot of places, particularly in London and in other built-up areas, aren't perished, and they don't have that obvious answer. 355 \ 01:02:56.480 --> 01:03:04.020 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So, in some places, there are community organisations and residence associations getting going on this. 356 \ 01:03:04.250 --> 01:03:11.539 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: In the recent, the recent bill for local government reorganization… there, Ed and Ed, there's another one. 357 \ 01:03:13.020 --> 01:03:26.350 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: the National Association of Local Councils was successful in getting the Act to re-emphasize the capacity for having new town and parish councils, obviously with a particular view on, 358 \ 01:03:27.010 --> 01:03:39.879 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: urban areas. In many places where borough councils are disappearing, when Taunton, Dean Borough Council disappeared one day, the next day Taunton Town Council appeared, you know. 359 \ 01:03:39.880 --> 01:03:52.109 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Similar stuff is happening in parts of Essex, certainly being planned for Cheltenham and Gloucestershire and other places as well. So, in addition to 360 \ 01:03:52.360 --> 01:04:03.030 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: not letting a good crisis go to waste. It may be that we have more obvious community-based organizations in urban areas than we've been used to. 361 \ 01:04:03.060 --> 01:04:18.909 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: I don't know if anybody on this call has got any more thoughts or experiences to share about how people might have already been successfully getting together on a community basis. Perhaps, Deborah, what's, what's happening in Maidenhead in terms of people working with each other? 362 \ 01:04:18.910 --> 01:04:29.799 \ Deborah Mason: It's me, and my friend Michelle, so far, and another friend who might get involved, because… 363 \ 01:04:29.890 --> 01:04:34.910 \ Deborah Mason: I tried all the different routes. I looked at communities prepared. Shockingly. 364 \ 01:04:34.910 --> 01:04:54.040 \ Deborah Mason: from the Thames, from Richmond down to Thames, there are no community-prepared flood groups, actually, listed, which seems a big surprise to me, although I do know that some of the parishes do have flood wardens, they're just not listed on that particular mapping. I couldn't find anything… I went round and round in circles via 365 \ 01:04:54.040 --> 01:05:13.340 \ Deborah Mason: the Resilience Forum, the local council website, background communities prepared, all over the place, could find nothing, contacted the local councillor in charge of emergency planning, he knew nothing, said he'd get back to me in April, still waiting, wrote a letter to the local paper saying, we really kind of need to do this! 366 \ 01:05:13.340 --> 01:05:30.270 \ Deborah Mason: No responses on that. Shared a blog where I explained why it's important, no responses on that. So I have actually taken a somewhat, tangential approach and set up a neighborhood watch area for my street on the basis that 367 \ 01:05:30.270 --> 01:05:55.029 \ Deborah Mason: this sort of comes under safety and security of your neighbourhood, and I've only just done that, just recently. It took some time to negotiate that website system as well, and also for them to work out whether the previous coordinator still existed. And I'm actually planning to go out at some point this week, clearly next week might be out of the thing, to just knock on some people's doors and ask them what they think, and whether they want to get involved. 368 \ 01:05:55.030 --> 01:05:57.780 \ Deborah Mason: And started a really, really hyper-local level. 369 \ 01:05:57.780 --> 01:06:21.439 \ Deborah Mason: Where, you know, actually, I think this rests… I mean, obviously, parish councils, I think, are one of the main, kind of, vectors for this planning, but as I say, in Maidenhead, we don't have that. And just in the neighborhood watch area that I'm looking at, there are 300 homes. That's just in one… one… it's an avenue that used to be full of big, old, Edwardian houses back in the heyday of Maidenhead. 370 \ 01:06:21.450 --> 01:06:44.889 \ Deborah Mason: And now there are lots of little developments and closes and side roads, so that includes blocks of flats and side roads and all the rest of it. So it's a blend of very big houses full of very rich people, and very tiny houses full of not-so-rich people, and some flats. So it will be an interesting exercise to do to just knock on doors and talk to people and see 371 \ 01:06:45.040 --> 01:07:04.249 \ Deborah Mason: whether they're interested in getting involved, what part of it they're interested in, whether they're even kind of… I mean, I'm hoping that the heat wave last week and the one to come next week will have sort of made people think more about what we maybe need to do as communities. But it's very much around, you know, looking at those risks of 372 \ 01:07:04.970 --> 01:07:29.940 \ Deborah Mason: in that people's emergency briefing, the sort of inevitable end of it, the kind of the stick rather than the carrot was, societal breakdown! And it's like, well, does it have to break down? If we build it up now in a way that supports everybody, not the rich and the powerful, could we maybe not have vigilantes and, you know, people kind of ram-raiding Singsbury's with their 4x4 to take 373 \ 01:07:29.940 --> 01:07:41.849 \ Deborah Mason: the new role. I mean, you know, that is what it will come to, but it doesn't have to come to that if we've already kind of created… if we've brought those people in to protect their community rather than just their family. 374 \ 01:07:41.850 --> 01:07:46.570 \ Deborah Mason: Then, you know, we can actually maybe… 375 \ 01:07:46.720 --> 01:07:59.339 \ Deborah Mason: avert societal breakdown. I mean, I think there will, you know, I don't think we should sugarcoat it. I think if we carry on the way we're going, there will be deaths. There will be deaths from starvation, there will be deaths from flood, there will be deaths from fire, there will be deaths from heat waves and cold and all the rest of it. 376 \ 01:07:59.610 --> 01:08:00.440 \ Deborah Mason: But… 377 \ 01:08:00.530 --> 01:08:25.060 \ Deborah Mason: we don't have to cause those deaths ourselves, and we can help to prevent them if we work together. And I think it could be a positive message that if you look and do that asset looking, I looked at my particular ward, and you know, we've got a doctor's, we've got a chemist, we've got several pubs, we've got a sailing club, we've got somebody who hires out tents for festivals, you know, and it's like, actually, as a community, we 378 \ 01:08:25.060 --> 01:08:34.909 \ Deborah Mason: probably could put together what we need, maybe. You know, we could maybe get through this together. So, maybe thinking of our strengths rather than kind of focusing on 379 \ 01:08:35.370 --> 01:08:38.270 \ Deborah Mason: the downside is the way to go. So that's the sort of. 380 \ 01:08:38.279 --> 01:08:38.629 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Yes. 381 \ 01:08:38.630 --> 01:09:02.960 \ Deborah Mason: that… I'm also, friends with somebody who lives in Tooting in London who's heavily involved in the environment movement, transition towers and all the rest of it, and they are more actively working towards an emergency plan in Tooting. And in London, the London community's prepared side, there's some grant that you can get to help you develop a community plan, emergency plan, but she's talking to people like, the funeral director. 382 \ 01:09:02.960 --> 01:09:16.909 \ Deborah Mason: And realized that, as well as their agreement to hold the bodies should it come to it, that they actually have people who are trained in dealing with grief and tricky situations, and people who are traumatized, that, you know, that's exactly what their staff do day in, day out. It's like… 383 \ 01:09:16.910 --> 01:09:35.590 \ Deborah Mason: you know, deal with people who are going through difficult times, so it's not just the practicalities, it's about finding those people with the skills as well. So… so that's where we're at in Maidenhead, which is not very far, because we don't have a parish. The central seven wards of Maidenhead are not parished, so we don't have that, 384 \ 01:09:35.720 --> 01:09:51.129 \ Deborah Mason: to rely on. But, you know, in my bigger plan list, once I've kind of tested the water locally, I've got a whole list of local organisations to see if I can bring on board. And I mean, I really wish the council would just pick up the baton, but I mean, there's only so much prodding you can do before you really actually 385 \ 01:09:51.450 --> 01:09:53.670 \ Deborah Mason: It's actually an emergency, we can't just 386 \ 01:09:54.570 --> 01:09:56.340 \ Deborah Mason: It is for you to get your act together. 387 \ 01:09:56.700 --> 01:10:10.870 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Let's get on with it. And, Debra, you're a star, because you're saying all the things that we've been saying, but saying it so much better, and Dan's nodding as well. What a great idea, a neighborhood watch. Everybody's heard of the Neighbourhood Watch. 388 \ 01:10:10.870 --> 01:10:35.690 \ Deborah Mason: Well, and it's sort of… it's a name you can trust, you know? It's like, people think, oh yeah, she's got a right to knock on my door and ask my opinion about this, so that's why I thought, you know, there's somebody to… and, you know, they're very much more now than just, you know, curtain twitching and nosy neighbors. There's a lot of work that they do around loneliness and support and supporting vulnerable people, and they will have access to that information around who is the vulnerable people in their community. 389 \ 01:10:36.110 --> 01:10:58.860 \ Deborah Mason: and it is at a very local level, so that it gives you that kind of, as you say, you know, as a parish council, you don't necessarily want to hold that sensitive information, but actually, through the neighborhood watch, you might have a vector to sort of find, you know, specific areas. I mean, obviously the coverage is patchy, so it's not, you know, everything and everything, but there will be neighbourhood associations and street WhatsApps and things like that to fill the gaps, so… 390 \ 01:10:58.860 --> 01:11:00.719 \ Deborah Mason: That's where we're at here, which is… 391 \ 01:11:00.720 --> 01:11:06.849 \ Deborah Mason: Not very far, but given that it's 3 people trying to do it and hold out a full-time job… 392 \ 01:11:06.850 --> 01:11:08.260 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: He only needs one person. 393 \ 01:11:09.140 --> 01:11:11.200 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: It only needs one person to start something, Deborah. 394 \ 01:11:11.200 --> 01:11:17.250 \ Deborah Mason: Well, you've got to try, haven't you? You've got to absolutely try, and if you can't make it work, you can't make it work, so… 395 \ 01:11:17.250 --> 01:11:19.759 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Well, I put my email address in the chat. Do please let. 396 \ 01:11:19.760 --> 01:11:20.290 \ Deborah Mason: Right. 397 \ 01:11:20.290 --> 01:11:24.989 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: how you're getting on? Because, that… we need to share this. Dan? 398 \ 01:11:25.150 --> 01:11:26.440 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Dan, you got your hand up. 399 \ 01:11:26.440 --> 01:11:36.120 \ Dan Stone: Just, first of all, absolute hats off to Deborah, it's great to hear what you're doing, it sounds brilliant. Yeah, I just wanted to say, I've put in a link to Shade the UK, which is a kind of 400 \ 01:11:36.120 --> 01:11:46.700 \ Dan Stone: charity talking about, kind of, heat resilience and adaptation and pressing for policy change there. And we're going to try and, sort of, get in touch with them, because, obviously, we're a charity talking about, kind of. 401 \ 01:11:46.700 --> 01:11:49.760 \ Dan Stone: Energy… energy, 402 \ 01:11:50.240 --> 01:12:06.529 \ Dan Stone: energy justice, basically, and climate change, and also, fuel poverty, and so they're coming from the opposite direction, talking about, kind of, heat insecurity and justice. So, if we get anywhere on that, I'll get in touch with you, and see if we can, sort of. 403 \ 01:12:06.730 --> 01:12:11.529 \ Dan Stone: you know, get together and press for some… some improvements, basically, because I feel like… 404 \ 01:12:11.880 --> 01:12:18.969 \ Dan Stone: government… current government reaction is… is just sort of woeful and sort of absent, really, in terms of… 405 \ 01:12:18.970 --> 01:12:34.200 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: You wait for government, you wait a long time, because they've got other fish that they're frying it, just at the moment. Yeah, that website, I've had a quick look at it, Stuart, that's very much addressing some of the things you were talking about in terms of architectural design, so that's interesting. 406 \ 01:12:34.240 --> 01:12:43.080 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And the other thing that's coming to my mind in all of this, is that our job at The Great Collaboration is joining all this stuff up, because there are people doing different things. 407 \ 01:12:43.080 --> 01:12:57.430 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Which are very relevant to our collective future. I have been… it's back to water again. I had this image of… it started of us being on… on the surfboard, on the crest of a wave of… which is the climate change, and… 408 \ 01:12:57.450 --> 01:13:07.749 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: wave, but now there's lots of other people on their softboards coming up next to us, or we're coming up next to them, because obviously the center for 7 Energy has been going for quite some time already. 409 \ 01:13:07.750 --> 01:13:17.489 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And so we will join up those kind of things. The other thing is, it's just about, which I think something, Ben mentioned about things we get taught at school. 410 \ 01:13:17.560 --> 01:13:26.349 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: How do we get information out in a way that interests people, without actually scaring the pants off them and saying they're rushing down to the supermarket? 411 \ 01:13:26.440 --> 01:13:34.820 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And, Dan, I'm thinking of, having… getting some people together, probably in October, who are… 412 \ 01:13:34.850 --> 01:13:47.919 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: we're all at the same cold face, in a way. We're all looking at what needs to be done, what can be done, how do we share information about it, and see if we can get some good, good language going together. We need a wellspring of 413 \ 01:13:47.920 --> 01:13:58.839 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: good language. I mean, the sort of, you know, net-zero slanging matches we get on the media, you know, it's not helping anything very much. Doesn't matter which side of the divide you're on. 414 \ 01:13:59.000 --> 01:14:03.990 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: I'm told, is it net zero week next week, Dan? Is that something that somebody's told me? 415 \ 01:14:03.990 --> 01:14:09.700 \ Dan Stone: I'm not sure, maybe it is, but I think I've missed it if it is. 416 \ 01:14:09.930 --> 01:14:11.779 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Right, well, I'd certainly missed it, yeah. 417 \ 01:14:11.780 --> 01:14:16.219 \ Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: I'll put the link in, because it's in… it's very definitely on. 418 \ 01:14:18.250 --> 01:14:18.980 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Yeah. 419 \ 01:14:19.030 --> 01:14:30.800 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Yeah, I think there are these resilience forms. Deborah's left a message about those. There are these resilience forms around it, but we can't assume that things are going to be done for us by other people. 420 \ 01:14:30.820 --> 01:14:41.340 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: my good friend Jules tends to say, nobody's coming to save us, and I think if we can be finding one or two people with us to actually get interested in this at a local level, if nobody else is doing it. 421 \ 01:14:41.340 --> 01:14:53.539 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And find out, it's a bit lonely if it's just one person, find out what's happening, what we could have, what's available. I think that's… that's the message that we're all wanting to carry. 422 \ 01:14:54.100 --> 01:14:55.629 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: And that's all good stuff. 423 \ 01:14:57.300 --> 01:15:07.740 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Well, it's 1 o'clock, and I think we've had some great stuff, much better stuff from the attendees than from the poor old presenter, who was just borrowing stuff from other people. 424 \ 01:15:07.770 --> 01:15:21.049 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: It's great to have these sessions, and great to have examples and put together, and even better that it's recorded and kept for other people. Graham, was there anything else, or anything else anybody wanted to say today before we… 425 \ 01:15:21.120 --> 01:15:22.579 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Come to a close. 426 \ 01:15:22.580 --> 01:15:24.289 \ Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: I don't know if we might… 427 \ 01:15:25.120 --> 01:15:32.859 \ Dan Stone: I had a question, really. I was just sort of thinking about, thinking about extreme heat and heat waves, and just thinking about the role 428 \ 01:15:33.000 --> 01:15:49.089 \ Dan Stone: parish councils play in terms of how they manage their land, you know, like, all the sort of green land within your sort of town and whatever, and sort of managing that for adaptation and heat, and thinking about, you know, the kind of 429 \ 01:15:49.090 --> 01:15:53.870 \ Dan Stone: You know, the thing about the albedo effect, so if you change the surface. 430 \ 01:15:53.890 --> 01:16:00.080 \ Dan Stone: Of a piece of public land, it changes the temperature it gets to, and sort of tree planting, and just… 431 \ 01:16:00.610 --> 01:16:03.009 \ Dan Stone: The degree to which you think 432 \ 01:16:03.150 --> 01:16:13.669 \ Dan Stone: The degree to which you have money to do that, and then also the degree to which you've thought about how you manage the land that you look after to reduce heat effects. 433 \ 01:16:13.750 --> 01:16:23.400 \ Dan Stone: And also think about, kind of, you know, fire breaks and all the rest of that stuff, because it feels to me that's an area that you parish councils could really do something about. 434 \ 01:16:23.590 --> 01:16:25.910 \ Dan Stone: But I don't know what the barriers are to that. 435 \ 01:16:26.730 --> 01:16:39.539 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Well, the barriers in general… I don't think there's any specific barriers. I'm pretty sure that there hasn't been a message out with town and parish councils about managing landscape for heat, so that can be 436 \ 01:16:39.540 --> 01:16:46.909 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: that can be improved on, we can get that story out. Obviously a lot of parishes do tree planting anyway, but not necessarily 437 \ 01:16:46.960 --> 01:16:51.819 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: trees for shade. They'll plant trees elsewhere for other reasons. 438 \ 01:16:51.880 --> 01:16:58.090 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So that's… that's a sound point. The… the sort of things that, are… 439 \ 01:16:58.530 --> 01:17:09.679 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: get in the way at parish councils, as parish councils get stuck in… stuck in a rut, and they just do things in the way they always did, and then they wonder why they don't get any new councillors at elections, you know. 440 \ 01:17:09.680 --> 01:17:20.559 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: I think we… again, we say that, you know, you've got all the statutory powers you need to do these things. Certainly, if it's your own property, you can do things about that. 441 \ 01:17:20.590 --> 01:17:31.940 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Funding, isn't much of an excuse, because there are ways you can find money, if it's really that important. And in any case, as somebody's already said today, tree planting is not actually terribly expensive. 442 \ 01:17:32.130 --> 01:17:44.909 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: So we can do those things. So, I think that the bit that's new, Dan, is… is getting parishes to think about heat when they're managing their property, and that… I've made a note about that. That's a good… that's a good idea. It's a good one. 443 \ 01:17:45.600 --> 01:17:46.350 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Yep. 444 \ 01:17:46.640 --> 01:18:02.850 \ Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Thank you so much for what actually turned into being a very fascinating discussion, because as you thought, it would lead to lots of ideas and places where they are doing it and getting it right that we can all learn from. So, much appreciated, thank you very much. 445 \ 01:18:02.850 --> 01:18:07.920 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Great pleasure, and thanks, everybody. And what's on… do we know what's on next week yet, Graeme? 446 \ 01:18:07.920 --> 01:18:13.670 \ Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: If I were organized, I would take huge pleasure in telling you what's coming next week, but since I'm not, I'm not. 447 \ 01:18:13.670 --> 01:18:17.989 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Okay. I'm sorry to put you on the spot, there you are. 448 \ 01:18:17.990 --> 01:18:20.670 \ Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: No, no, we'll find something, but… as yet. 449 \ 01:18:20.870 --> 01:18:28.659 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: I have a funny feeling… I have a funny feeling this last conversation could be mysteriously missing from the recorded, tape. Anyway, there you go. 450 \ 01:18:29.400 --> 01:18:29.920 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: Okay. 451 \ 01:18:30.360 --> 01:18:31.450 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: That'd be right. 452 \ 01:18:31.450 --> 01:18:34.550 \ Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Thank you all very much for coming, and I hope to see you again next week. 453 \ 01:18:34.550 --> 01:18:34.970 \ Cllr Stuart Withington Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Thank you. 454 \ 01:18:34.970 --> 01:18:36.110 \ Andrew Maliphant, Great Collaboration Gloucestershire: It is all the best. 455 \ 01:18:36.110 --> 01:18:37.490 \ Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Take care, bye-bye. *** #### Markdown copy of Andrew's presentation: ## Emergency Planning ### Too Hot *(Cover image: heatwave)* *** ## Too Wet *(Cover image: flooding)* *** ## Topics from the National Emergency Briefing * **Nature** – we've lost 53% of our biodiversity. * **Climate** – if we keep burning fossil fuels, temperatures will keep rising. * **Weather extremes** – the UK is getting wetter in winter, and faster than models predicted. * **Tipping points** – the biggest risk is failure of the ocean current that keeps the UK's climate mild. * **Food security** – the UK imports 40–50% of its food, much from climate-stressed regions such as the Mediterranean. * **Health** – the real killer is the breakdown of our systems. * **National security** – the greatest risk is cascading crises overwhelming government systems and eroding democratic stability. * **Economics** – clinging to the status quo delays change and increases risk. * **Energy transition** – around half of UK recessions since 1970 have been triggered by fossil fuel price volatility. *** ## Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail… * We know our local geography and our local people. * We can work with local people to define the risks and opportunities. * Resilience Forums can advise, but no one else can do the actual planning. * There's no escape either… *** ## Key Stages in a Community Emergency Plan ### Set up a Community Emergency Group #### Risk Assessment * Impact on the community (e.g. from a heatwave) * What can we prepare in advance? * How do we respond when it happens? * What about recovery afterwards? #### Assess Local Skills and Resources * Key locations for places of safety * Emergency contact list and communications * Local organisations that can help * Share the plan with the emergency services *** ## Who Are the Most Vulnerable in Our Community? *(Discussion slide)* *** ## Example – Hot Weather and Heatwaves | Impact on Community | How Can We Prepare? | Action in an Emergency | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------- | | Increased risks of overheating, dehydration, heat exhaustion and heatstroke | Disseminate guidance on symptoms and treatment | Activate heatwave communications and issue local alerts | | Disruption to power, water and transport | Promote hydration, shading, ventilation and cool rooms | Direct people to cool spaces and help them reach them | | Higher wildfire risk | Identify community "cool spaces" | Coordinate volunteers to deliver water and practical assistance | Further information: *** ## Heatwave Advice * Check weather and travel warnings. * Ensure heating is turned off. * Check fridges, freezers and fans are working. * Make sure vulnerable neighbours understand how to protect themselves. * Drink plenty of water and carry a refillable bottle. * Stay out of the sun between **11 am and 3 pm** where possible. * Exercise and walk dogs during cooler parts of the day. * Keep homes cool by shading windows during the day and opening them at night. *** ## Refill Destinations Refill Destinations help towns and cities: * Reduce plastic waste. * Meet climate action targets. * Improve access to free drinking water. Further information: * Manchester Refill Revolution * *** ## Cold Water Shock Safety advice: * Don't jump into unknown water. * Enter gradually where possible. * Wear visible and protective clothing. * If in difficulty: * Float on your back. * Control your breathing. * Call for help. * If someone else is in difficulty: * Throw something that floats. * Don't jump in yourself. * Never wild swim alone. Stages include: * Hyperventilation * Raised blood pressure * Swim failure as muscles cool **47% of UK accidental drownings occur between May and August.** *** ## Wildlife During Heatwaves Advice from WWF and Treedom: * Provide water. * Create shade. * Offer food. * Plant native species. * Avoid disturbing nests. Also: * Respect wildlife in rivers, lakes and streams. * Follow warning signs. * Provide water and shade for pets (Blue Cross guidance). *** ## Further Guidance – UK Government Prepare Campaign Topics include: * Animal and plant health * Antimicrobial resistance * Cold weather * Cyber * Drought * Fires in the home * Flooding * Hazardous substances and radiation * Hot weather and heatwaves * Infectious disease outbreaks * Overseas emergencies * Phone and broadband outages * Poor air quality * Power cuts * Storms * Terrorism * Water supply interruptions * Wildfires **Notably absent:** **Food supply** — see **Sustainable Food Places**. *** ## Thank You
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