Date of the report
May 2024
Author of the report
SWM, in collaboration with Coventry City Council and CAG Consultants
Purpose of the report
This document provides a compendium of good practice examples that demonstrate climate change adaptation planning and action that UK local authorities are taking.
SWM has been working in partnership with CAG Consultants to develop an Adaptation and Resilience Plan for Coventry City Council (CCC). As part of this, the council is interested in ‘examples of best practice across the UK and beyond which the city could learn from and identify other local authorities with whom to benchmark the city’s progress against in order to promote continuous improvement.’ This document sets out such examples and looks specifically at:
- What local authorities that border Coventry are doing
- Good practice adaptation plans from across the UK
- Examples of adaptation projects and actions from across the UK.
This document was used to feed into the development of the Plan for Coventry, and provided the council with a strong indication as to which of their peers they can engage with to continuously learn from going forwards.
The latter part of the document repeats and builds on the work done in collaboration with the Environment Agency, which resulted in a the guide titled ‘Climate change adaptation: practical examples for local authorities.’
