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Partners energise green plans for the city - 26/03/2012
Young people's innovative green aspirations will be part of a summit to grow a green vision strategy for the city today (March 26).

The Hull Green Vision Summit 2012, at the Guildhall, will build on the work from four earlier sector specific events also attended by businesses, public organisations and voluntary and community representatives.

The all-day event is the first time the four groups will mix to bring together the ideas, goals and next steps generated at the workshops, to refine the city's green vision.

This will create the bones of a strategy and map out the steps needed to achieve the ambitious plans to be a leading green City in the UK and Europe, over the next five to 10 years and throughout the vision's 20-year lifespan.

Visual minuet takers will capture the workshop process in both words and pictures on a large display to stimulate the creativity, productivity and understanding in the work groups.

Also on the day, the winners of the schools green vision art competition will be announced and presented with a prize by one of the businesses taking part in the summit engineering firm Spencer.

The colourful concept pictures by the Hull School pupils illustrate their green vision for the city.

Charlie Spencer, Chief Executive of the Spencer Group, which is developing a £150m renewable energy power station in Hull, said:

"We were really impressed by the work of the young people and the innovative green ideas they had come up with for the city, to input into the vision.

"The Green Summit is about people from all sectors working together to develop and deliver a green vision. Having a clear vision will in turn help us to maximise the economic opportunity for the city, in terms of investment and jobs."

During the earlier sessions it was recognised that we are not starting from scratch in the city and already have a good list of green credentials. The sector based events also saw five key themes have emerged for small steps we can take as a city and also for more radical steps to take over a longer period of time.

The summit aims to help the city position itself to come out of the current recession stronger and better equipped to take on the challenges ahead presented by the environmental and climate challenges.

Councillor Martin Mancey, Portfolio Holder with responsibility for Environmental Sustainability, said:

"The Summit is a great opportunity for businesses and voluntary and community organisations to get involved in helping to shape the green vision for Hull.

"The City is at an important point and we have the opportunity to make Hull a leading green City in the UK and Europe. I would encourage everyone to get involved and help shape our green Hull future."

The small steps that were a common theme from the four sector events were:

- Green curriculum for education
- Learn from other green cities
- Promote green Hull inside and outside the City
- Community engagement- ownership of land
- Increase cycling/ walking/ car free days

More radical common themes were:

- Develop and generate our own energy
- Car free city centre and wider pedestrianisation
- Make greater use of Estuary to create a green/blue city
- Masterplan everyone signs up to
- Mass transit system





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