Gateshead Council

The actions we track

• Provide stewardship subsidies for landowners/farmers restoring ecosystem services (carbon, biodiversity, flood defence)

  5.00Supporting

• Farmer transition grants/advice to shift from livestock to horticulture and plant-protein crops

  4.00Supporting

• Shift land ownership/control into community hands for green space, reforestation, and community food gardens (asset transfer/CLTs/right-to-buy where applicable)

  2.77Supporting

• Declare a climate emergency (including explicit recognition of food-system emissions and plant-based transition)

  2.00Supporting

• Peatland/wetland restoration (re-wetting, grazing-pressure reduction) on council land

  0.92Supporting

• Food security priority policy (ending poverty/hunger; nutritious food accessible for all)

  0.50Supporting

• Allocate land/allotments for community food growing and plant-rich diets (edible gardens, veg growing)

  0.16Supporting

• Adopt a funded Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) programme for climate mitigation/adaptation with measurable targets

  0.00Neutral

• Coastal habitat restoration / blue carbon projects (seagrass, saltmarsh, kelp where applicable)

  0.00Neutral

• Create nature recovery network (wildlife corridors/pollinator habitat) on former grazing or feed-crop land

  0.00Neutral

• Divestment from animal agriculture / livestock-heavy investments

  0.00Neutral

• Planning enforcement/refusal guidance for intensive livestock & slaughterhouse proposals

  0.00Neutral

• Plant-based catering requirements for major venues & events

  0.00Neutral

• Plant-based options offered in council catering/venues (non-default)

  0.00Neutral

• Plant-based pledges & public challenges (Veganuary, Meat Free Monday)

  0.00Neutral

• Public awareness campaigns for food transition (reduce meat/dairy, plant-rich)

  0.00Neutral

• Repurpose council farmland/grazing land to nature recovery (rewilding/woodland creation/habitat restoration)

  0.00Neutral

• Rewilding and land restoration payments/subsidies for former livestock land

  0.00Neutral

• Shift policy support from monoculture toward diversified agroecological/veganic/regenerative farming (permaculture principles)

  0.00Neutral

• Targets for plant-based/plant-rich procurement in public catering

  0.00Neutral

• Urban biodiversity programme (trees, wildflowers, green roofs, wildlife corridors, green community projects)

  0.00Neutral