Including the closely related terms fuel poverty, and poverty.
… and local sources of energy, helping to deliver boroughwide zero carbon emissions. Take action to tackle fuel poverty. TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE Retain Sustainable Food City status each year. Raise awareness of the climate emergency and the impacts of climate change on Sutton. CREATING A CIRCULAR ECONOMY Reduce waste and increase reuse and recycling from 50% year on year. Embed…
…, making it cheaper for households to purchase solar panels. Over 1,300 households registered and 276 have progressed with solar panel installation. Community energy schemes²1 are an option for community groups to deliver and the Council wants to support this. Better insulation of homes reduces carbon emissions and makes them warmer, healthier and cheaper to heat. Households in fuel poverty…
… are categorised as having low income, poor energy efficiency and energy costs that are above the national average. Were they to spend that amount, they would be left with an income that is below the official poverty line.22 Around 10% of households in Sutton are thought to be in fuel poverty, just below the national average.23 Retrofitting homes across the borough to reduce carbon emissions provides…
… an opportunity to create warmer homes and tackle fuel poverty. Sutton Housing Partnership already has a home improvement programme, and the Council offers free home visits to fuel poor households or where people have certain medical conditions. WHERE ARE SUTTON’S CARBON EMISSIONS COMING FROM? IN KILOTONNES PER YEAR (2018) ELECTRICITY POWERING HOMES ELECTRICITY POWERING BUSINESSES GAS…
… Organisations building new homes People who live, work and study in Sutton Businesses The Sutton Plan partners STRATEGIES Local Plan Policy 31 - Carbon and Energy Fuel Poverty Action Plan Town Centre Masterplan 18. https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/energy/ and https://naei.beis.gov.uk/laco2app/ 19. London Environment Strategy, page 210 20. Defra, and Office of National…