Following the successful dissemination event hosted by Your Climate, Climate UK (together with the Environment Agency's Climate Ready service) has launched a new suite of adaptation to climate change training materials aimed at local authority officers, elected members and communities involved in the Town and Country Planning process.

A further opportunity to benefit from the dissemination event will be hosted by our friends at Climate North East in Durham on 16 October. Bookings are at http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-a-resilient-environment-durham-registration-12461126565?aff=eorg [please copy and past this link into your web browser].

The new resources cover six principal topics:
1. Statutory drivers for adaptation
2. Making the business case for adaptation
3. Green Infrastructure as an adaptation response
4. How developments and buildings can be adapted
5. Neighbourhood planning
6. Achieving resilience through Planning policy

The resources comprise PowerPoint Presentation slide packs with detailed speaker's notes that can be downloaded and used to provide local presentations and training in your organisation or community.

You can download them from http://climateuk.net/resource/building-resilient-environment-%E2%80%93-sector-tools-and-resources [please copy and past this link into your web browser].

You are welcome to use these sets in their original form (the pdf versions), or amend as needed to suit your audience, add your own branding, include local examples, etc. (the ppt versions) as long as you acknowledge the source (Climate UK and EA's Climate Ready).

Set 5 on Neighbourhood Planning has an additional User Guide sheet to explain how to use it and how you may need to amend it to suit a non-technical community audience, who may be involved in a formal neighbourhood planning process - though some of the principles can still be applied even if this isn't the case.