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Overview

The sustainability opportunities workshop report provides a summary of the insights and opportunities we heard from council and agency stakeholders who participated in the North East Link sustainability opportunities workshop, held on 4 December 2018.

Feedback from the workshop is being reviewed by North East Link Project (NELP) to determine how these ideas and opportunities could be facilitated. This information will be provided to parties bidding on the project.

All stakeholders in the Technical Reference Group (TRG) for the Environment Effects Statement (EES) were invited to participate.

The purpose of the workshop was to share knowledge and generate ideas on sustainability opportunities that could be implemented for the North East Link.

Participants were invited to discuss the following key questions:

• Is anything missing from NELP’s sustainability themes and high-level objectives?
• What are councils and agencies doing and planning (and what would they like to do) to achieve similar sustainability objectives that could be relevant to the North East Link?
• What measures of success do councils and other agencies use?
• What can NELP learn from past council and agency experience in sustainability on infrastructure projects?

North East Link sustainability themes and approach

Participants were asked to consider NELP’s commitments, articulated through our Sustainability Policy, which span environmental, social and economic themes:

• Resource efficiency
• Urban ecosystems
• Communities
• Economic opportunities
• Climate change

Sustainability objectives and opportunities

• NELP has developed objectives around each of the priority sustainability themes.
• Participants provided feedback on these objectives and potential measures.
• Participants also considered the opportunities that could be explored to achieve these objectives.

Next steps

In the coming months we will be:

• Setting our sustainability targets and contract requirements.
• Assessing the feasibility of the sustainability opportunities that you suggested.
• Providing sustainability opportunities to project bidders so that they can consider how they could incorporate initiatives into their designs.
• Having further conversations with stakeholders on sustainability opportunities.