Cheshire has been developing it's Local Agenda 21 programme since 1994. Both Cheshire County Council and the six District Councils in Cheshire have all developed Local Agenda 21 Plans. Cheshire County Council invited over 40 representatives from public, private and community organisations to develop a county-wide plan. This partnership is called the Sustainable Cheshire Forum. Smaller topic groups within the forum were established to focus on particular issues within the overall strategy.

Eight Topic Groups were developed to focus on:

Air Quality
Transport
Energy & Climate
Water Quality
Eco Audit
Waste
Land Use (including Food & Farming & Local Heritage and Distinctiveness)
Wildlife

More information about these issues can be found through the "Themes" button.

Each group is chaired by a representative from an independent organisation and facilitated by a member of staff in the County Council. Each group developed Action Plans to focus on these issues and these were used to form Cheshire's Agenda 21 Strategy and Action Plan, launched in 1996, which was updated with Cheshire's Environmental Action Plan in 2003.

These action plans have short, medium and long term targets and are reviewed annually by the Sustainable Cheshire Forum. Progress against key indicators has traditionally been published annually in Cheshire's Check Up document, which last year was replaced by Cheshire's State of the Environment Report.