Low Carbon Communities Challenge
A number of communities have indicated that they would like to know who else has expressed their interest in the Low Carbon Communities Challenge in order to support networking and shared learning. This listing page provides details of those communities that have said they are willing to share their details.
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Name:
David Yates
Organization:
sustainable scarborough
Location of Community:
sustainable scarborough communities
Local Council:
Scarborough Borough Council
County:
North Yorkshire
Country:
England
Retro fitting of houses to semonstrate the economic social and environmental; benefits of using a comunmunity owned social enterprise to carry out the insulation and micro-renewable installation in solid wall properties as retrofits on domestic houses anmd SMEs
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Name:
Gabi Kaiser
Organization:
Cherwell District Council
Location of Community:
Bicester
Local Council:
Cherwell District Council
County:
Oxfordshire
Country:
England
The overall aim of SMART Bicester is to reduce CO2 emissions by 10% through reduction in energy, waste and travel from across the community. We will use the impetus of the growth and eco development agenda in Bicester to support community wide behaviour change and awareness raising through the SMART Bicester scheme. By spreading knowledge and changing behaviour SMART Bicester will leave a legacy for years to come.
A key practical initiative will be one of the largest single domestic rollouts of smart meters and energy monitoring devices in the UK. Linked to this we will enable a significant proportion of the local community to upgrade their homes and community facilities and as a consequence reduce their energy costs through cavity and loft insulation. We aim to assist in repositioning the town of Bicester as smart, sustainable and resilient in the face of climate change. We want Bicester to become a leading example of good environmental practice.
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Name:
David Senior
Organization:
Council of the Isles of Scilly
Location of Community:
Isles of Scilly
Local Council:
Isle of Scilly Council
County:
Isles of Scilly
Country:
England
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Name:
Clive Kyle
Organization:
Ballymena Borough Council
Location of Community:
Ballymena Borough Council
Local Council:
Ballymena Borough Council
County:
County Antrim
Country:
Northern Ireland
Ballymena Borough Council are making an application to DECC in conjunction with GT Energy, the Northern Ireland Housing Executive and Action Renewables under the Low Carbon Communities Challenge to develop a localised district heating network and demonstrate district heating, heat delivery and metering technology to promote low carbon living and facilitate the reduction of carbon emissions in the town of Ballymena.
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Name:
Max Comfort
Organization:
Stroud Common Wealth
Location of Community:
stroud and glastonbury
Local Council:
Stroud District Council
County:
Gloucestershire
Country:
England
Building on work already initiated, the two communities will seek to trest the theory that electric vehicles (EVs) are not just an urban or peri-urban phenomenon but have strong rural relevance; they will also seek to break the chicken;egg deadlock around the use of and infrastructural support for EVs. Useage patterns, green electricity consumption and "normal" comparitors will be used to monitor and evaluate the project. As part of its intent is to raise awareness - and therefore uptake - of EVs, we will hold the Great Stroud to Glastonbury EV Race.
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Name:
Rupert Johnson
Organization:
Castle Vale Community Environmental Trust
Location of Community:
Castle Vale Birmingham
Local Council:
Birmingham City Council
County:
West Midlands
Country:
England
We are seeking to develop a low carbon future for Castle Vale by establishing a sustainable energy generation unit, Low Carbon Community Champions and launching a low carbon shopping delivery service.
We aim to continue to deliver carbon savings beyond the project finish and to create local sustainable jobs.
The project will help those who are in fuel poverty and allow for a rolling programme of energy reduction across the estate.
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Name:
Andy Rowland
Organization:
ecodyfi
Location of Community:
Dyfi Valley
Local Council:
Ceredigion County Council
County:
Powys
Country:
Wales
A) Domestic new build
Mid Wales Housing will build 5 units of social housing at Cemaes. The funding we will provide will enable them to reach Code 4 of the Code for Sustainable Homes instead of Code 3, through installation of a single wood pellet boiler serving all the properties.
B) Domestic retrofit
Ecodyfi will promote the opportunity to participate, to the 5000 households in the valley.
Those taking up the offer will be provided with:
• An energy survey and action plan
• An ecological footprint survey
• An opportunity to ask for information about more ambitious measures (solid wall insulation and micro generation)
• Follow up assistance to implement recommendations
• Soft Loans will be available from the rolling loan fund that we will create
C) Community buildings
Some capital will be reserved to energy retrofit one or more community buildings, probably Y Plas.
D) Renewable heat supply
Promotion of solar water heating and logfuel. Attention will be given to log delivery, storage, handling, combustion equipment and fluing on the customer side and to quality (especially seasoning) and information issues on the supply side. We will explore opportunities to form a supply cooperative to drive up fuel quality.
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Name:
Andy Littlewood
Organization:
Coventry City Council
Location of Community:
Hillfields & Canley, Coventry
Local Council:
Coventry City Council
County:
West Midlands
Country:
England
Swans Can Fly Solar Thermal Project - is a combined energy saving and renewable energy technology awareness project in Hillfields and Canley. This project forms a key part of the Coventry Low Carbon Challenge - a cross city initiative for Coventry.
The project focuses on energy saving and control of energy costs as a driver for community engagement in behavioural change and the adoption of appropriate low carbon renewable energy technologies.
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Name:
Kathryn Tims
Organization:
New Solutions Scotland
Location of Community:
Inner North Belfast
Local Council:
Belfast City Council
County:
County Antrim
Country:
Northern Ireland
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Name:
Robert Clegg
Organization:
LB Bromley
Location of Community:
Chatterton Village Low Carbon Community
Local Council:
Bromley London Borough Council
County:
Greater London
Country:
England
The London Borough of Bromley and our partners believe that the Chatterton Village area is an ideal location for a Low Carbon Community as it has a strong sense of place, a highly active Village Association and a plethora of pre-1930s housing that will require solid wall insulation. We are keen to pilot a project that will show us the issues and opportunities presented by a large scale, area based approach to reducing carbon emissions in solid wall houses as it is this sort of housing that the London Borough of Bromley and London as a whole has to tackle if it is to meet the carbon reduction targets that have been set.
We have met and gained support from a wide range of potential partners for the LCC and are confident of being able to make a quick start if we are successful in this bid.
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