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New Local Area Agreements

The new LAAs

A new type of Local Area Agreement (LAA) has been introduced. All county and single tier Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) have negotiated new LAAs with their Regional Government Offices. These come into force from June 2008. Although there are no district level LAAs, district councils have been involved in negotiating county LAAs. A small number of sub-regional Multi-Area Agreements (MAA) have also been developed by neighbouring partnerships.

All LAAs include up to 35 nationally agreed improvement targets based on local priorities as reflected in Sustainable Community Strategies. The targets are based on the set of 198 national indicators which include 3 climate change PIs. Many local areas have included nationally agreed climate change targets in their LAAs. LSPs may also choose to include additional local targets in their LAA.

Click here for more information on the climate change targets that have been included in the 2008-10 LAAs.

Resources

The Energy Saving Trust has published guidance and case studies on Comprehensive Area Assessment and Local Area Agreements and how they relate to NI 186, including advice on how best to take action to meet targets.