Department for Communities and Local Government

Key contributions to sustainable development:

1. Creating sustainable communities that embody the principles of sustainable development at the local level.

2. Providing homes for all, while protecting and enhancing the environment.

3. Working to give communities more power and say in their decisions that affect them; and working to improve governance at all levels so that we can work at the right level to get things done.

4. Creating cleaner, safer, greener agenda: to make public spaces cleaner safer and greener and to improve the quality of the built environment in deprived areas and across the country by 2008.

5. Promoting sustainable, high quality design and construction, to reduce waste and improve resource efficiency, and promoting more sustainable buildings.

6. Putting sustainable development at the heart of the planning system, as set out in Planning Policy Statement 1 'Delivering Sustainable Development'.

Department for Communities and Local Government - Sustainable Development Action Plan

Updated: 4 April 2006