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Leeds City Council

… zone related implementation and help with business to upgrade vehicles £47m, £16m of Council Housing Stock energy efficiency schemes, the Housing Leeds District heating scheme £36m, Street Lighting LED and other lighting replacement schemes £31m. The Council has provided £7.5m for the upgrade of its van fleet to electric. This Executive Board is considering approvals for Climate Emergency…

… of emissions are street lighting, its buildings and fleet. The council has already acquired the largest local government electric vehicle fleet in the UK, committed to halve the energy required for street lighting by transferring to LED and to replace gas in our city centre buildings with district heating. A series of further recommendations are made to the Executive Board, which include the following…

… investment over the last fifteen years. Through heating replacement programmes utilising district heating and heat pumps, we aim to provide low carbon heating to over half of our multi storey buildings. The council has also secured funding of £10.5m to install external wall insulation on much of its own back to back stock and a further 5 £5.4m to roll out domestic solar, with the ability…

… to target grants to those in need, who cannot afford repayments to improve their homes; o For the government to incentivise private home owners to undertake the necessary retrofitting.  Even with these actions, the city is unlikely to achieve a net zero position in regard to the existing housing stock without the full decarbonisation of heat. The council is actively working with the LEPs…

… by national policies. The council therefore asks for the restitution of the Code for Sustainable Homes which would require all new homes to be built to level 6 in future.  The council’s main area of housing growth is the city centre. The council is committed to bringing forward 20,000 new homes within an expanded city centre which minimise heating requirements and car usage, creating an exemplar…