European Common Indicators

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European Common Indicators
Dave Tuffery Senior Scientific Officer Bristol
City Council
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Contents
No. 2 - Local effect on climate change No. 4 -
Access to services
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European Indicator No. 2

• Local effect on climate change (CO2)
• Councils for Climate Protection
• Corporate analysis
• Community analysis

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Community analysis
Community equivalent CO2 emissions in Bristol
3,860,500
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Residential
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25
Commercial
Industrial
36
Transportation
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Waste
Other
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Corporate analysis
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European Indicator No. 4

• Using GIS
• Access to local public areas
• Public parks, gardens or open spaces, for use
  exclusively by pedestrians and cyclists.
• Access to basic services

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Basic services

• Primary public health services (GP)
• Collective transport with a minimum frequency
  (half - hour service)
• Public school
• Food store selling fresh fruit and veg
• Recycling facilities or service(inc bins)

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Data available which can be used in Graphical
Information System

• Address points
• Post code shape file
• Contact database
• Parks shapefile
• Flaire system
• Phone book, A-Z etc

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Definition of local access
Corresponds to 300m as the crow flies
500m
300m
15 mins walk 500m on foot
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Open space
64 of address points which are within 300m of
open spaces gt 5000m2
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Schools
42 of addresses are within 300m of a school
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Food stores
60 of addresses are within 300m of a food
store
Food premises post code
Post code shape file centroids
Address point shape file grid reference
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Areas where respondents to the QOL survey find it
difficult to access a shopping centre in Bristol
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Combining all indicators
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How the indicator is used
Access to all services
Population density
Available employment
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Conclusions
GIS is - Expensive Time consuming and require
many resources Complex and specialist Versatile Im
mediate and visual Good planing tool Unexpected
benefits
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Contact Details

• Dave Tuffery
• Environmental Quality
• Create Centre
• Smeaton Road
• Bristol BS1 6XN
• dave_tuffery_at_bristol-city.gov.uk