sustainable kingswear



What Can Kingswear Do? - Enabling and encouraging by KPC
 
Infrastructure - what can be done now:

  • Addressing light pollution - saving money and interference with wildlife
  • Encouraging KPC to lobby SHDC/DCC to change to led lights from sodium
  • Lobbying SHDC/DCC to use EV public transport and other vehicles
  • Encouraging householders to use energy suppliers who use 100% renewables
 
Infrastructure - longer term:

  • Installing EV charging points for community and visitor use (cars/bikes/boats)
  • Community energy scheme, to supply the community and feed into national grid
  • Community EV pool for cars, bikes and possibly link up with Dartmouth schemes
 
Community schemes - what can be done now:

  • Encouraging eco friendly cleaning materials
  • Encouraging a ‘litter neighbourhood watch’ - eg asking builders to take it home!
  • Asking vehicles to turn off their engines in the ferry queue - community involvement but supported by KPC
  • Encouraging households and larger landowners to:
    • De-cultivate an area of own land, no matter how small - allow growth of wildflowers, nettles, long grasses for insects, small mammals, birds
    • build a small pond, harness a spring?
    • not use pesticides - helping soil health, pollinators, wildlife
    • plant trees, allow hedges or portion of hedges to grow
    • creating wildlife corridors eg holes in fences for hedgehogs, and pond ramps
  • Discouraging single use plastic
 
Community schemes - longer term:

  • Community Library of Things - garden equipment, bikes, skills exchange
  • Community composting - needs sufficient space, access for vehicles and volunteers to run, possibly link with Dartmouth’s emerging site?
  • Supporting walking routes and the Slow Ways Initiatives
  • Promoting sustainable initiatives: eg
    • installation of public use Electric Vehicle charging points,
    • talks on purchase and use of electric vehicles (Alan Depledge)
 
Celebrating via social media/press/signage

  • KW Primary School - healthy foods/low meat and dairy? Environment projects?
  • New recycling scheme
  • Community orchard
  • Installation of solar panels
  • Households changing from fossil fuelled heating to air or ground source heat pumps
  • Changing to electric vehicles
  • Development of a wildlife haven 
 
Useful local links
 
Devon Carbon Emergency:  https://www.devonclimateemergency.org.uk
 
Sustainable South Hams:  http://www.sustainablesouthhams.org
 
Sustainable Dittisham:  https://www.sustainabledittisham.org
 
Sustainable Blackawton:  https://blackawtoncommunity.com/sustainable-blackawton/
 
Sustainable Dartmouth:  https://www.daffs.org  (Temporary home for Sustainable Dartmouth)

Shared Shed - Borrow useful things at minimal cost: ​Share Shed – A Library of Things