Regional Environmental Compliance Projects
The Environmental Compliance program is designed to assist councils to improve standards, systems and practices that improve compliance with environmental legislation of councils and the regulated community.
It is relatively easy to develop and adopt policy, and somewhat more difficult to embed systemic changes to meet these policy changes. HCCREMS will work with councils to identify system improvement opportunities, build capacity of staff and the community, and develop appropriate guidance and resources to strengthen council systems to ensure desired environmental outcomes are met.
The projects specifically aim to:
- Build the commitment, capacity, skills and resources of councils across the region to effectively and consistently prioritise and enforce environmental legislation and standards
- Provide councils with a suite of best practice tools and supporting resources to effectively implement environmental regulation and enforcement activities
- Deliver coordinated regional community education and enforcement campaigns targeting identified regional environmental compliance priorities
- Facilitate the establishment of partnerships and resource sharing between councils and other organisations, to support the ongoing implementation of collaborative enforcement and compliance campaigns targeting priority regional issues
- Improve the nature and consistency of data collection across the region to allow the identification of regional trends and priorities for environmental compliance activities.
HCCREMS will deliver outcomes through the development of appropriate tools and resources for council staff, provision of capacity building and training opportunities for environmental compliance practitioners and the development of community engagement and education programs.
This project has been supported by the New South Wales Government through its Environment Trust