Including the closely related terms building retrofit, and housing retrofit.
… and employment in businesses servicing new green industries such as whole-house retrofit of energy efficiency and demand reduction measures to minimise householder energy costs, renewable energy generation, new agricultural systems that emphasise local supply chains, active travel and electric vehicle infrastructure, and all the associated economic benefits / cost savings that would come…
… to the district: Embedding climate change thinking in everyday decision-making processes in the same way that cost effectiveness and health and safety considerations are. Increasing carbon literacy and behaviour change. Risks of flooding, overheating, wildfires and to agriculture. Conflicting ambitions of meeting renewable energy and building retrofit needs and preserving the natural…
… electricity grid capacity is largely focused on areas of high demand rather than high potential supply, limiting the rural capacity to deliver new renewable generation and electrify heating and transport. Housing retrofit Population sparsity in rural districts such as the Forest of Dean reduces opportunities for at- scale retrofit and district heating, whilst the wide variety of non-standard type…
… of the UK’s future economy. Engagement and partnerships The district benefits from having a wide range of public, private, charity and voluntary sector organisations. There is therefore a wealth of opportunity to engage and partner with these organisations in order to promote environmentally friendly behaviour, for example via building retrofit and ecological land management. There is particularly…
… generation in the district. Population sparsity and non-typical rural homes make wide scale retrofit challenging. Potentially radical future changes to the planning system taking control away from local planning authorities. The uncertainty created by the Covid-19 pandemic with regards future ways of working and living and the resulting difficulty in producing reliable business cases…