For the avoidance of any doubt, the following is an important extract from the Oct 2022 Minutes of Bigbury Parish Council

14.0. Climate Emergency
This item was added by the Chairman as a late addition to the Agenda. VS thought that the principle of declaring an ‘Emergency’, was sensible, whether effective or not at parish level, e.g. planning applications. The question of whether the NP could be reviewed to include sustainable polices was raised and advised it could be after 5 years from final approval and that would mean in 3 years time for BPC. However BPC felt there was no reason not to include sustainable policies in its consideration of planning applications and that ongoing consideration of sustainable issues would result in increasing enlightment and action for BPC to play a part in signaling such issues to the parish and should be included in reviews of the NP. VS commented that sustainable policies in the original submission of the NP had been rejected by the Inspector because at the time they were not included in the the National Planning Policy Framework but that that should not prevent the Parish from producing a Carbon Plan. VS proposed support for the declaration, CC seconded and Councillor support was unanimous.