… health, live in worse housing with less access to insurance, and have fewer resources to cope with rising costs. There is great potential to reduce CO2 emissions and tackle fuel poverty by improving the energy efficiency of the overall housing stock. Redditch Borough Council still maintains around 6000 social housing properties while Bromsgrove has a number of partnerships with housing associations…
…, most notably BDHT. The cheapest and most effective option to reduce emissions would be widespread loft/cavity insulation, but there are limits to this, especially in Redditch as there are very few un-insulated properties left, as current fuel price increases have been enough of a financial incentive for owner- occupiers to insulate their homes, and the Councils own subsidised insulation schemes have…
… to increase renewables locally are two-fold: ‰ large scale projects and ‰ smaller installations, for example micro-renewables such as solar panels on individual homes. What is the current situation? There are several planning applications for industrial sized wind turbines in the Bromsgrove area. We do not have an historic list of micro-generating properties in the area although a number of homeowners…