Issue - meetings

1. To approve a new H&F service, as part of the H&F ‘Healthy Homes’ programme, to help residents design and install measures including insulation, solar PV, heat pumps and energy storage to their homes. A proposed small grant scheme, administered by H&F, is linked to this to help less well-off residents to pay for measures.

2. To approve the selection of the portion of Wormholt and College Park & Old Oak wards that is H&F social housing as a social housing place-based decarbonisation scheme, including solar energy, batteries, heat pumps, insulation and innovative money saving energy tariffs.

3. To approve the selection of Wendell Park as a private housing place-based decarbonisation scheme, using intensive, targeted communications and engagement, alongside innovative measures such as thermal drone scans, to drive clean energy measures in the neighbourhood. The European Horizon 2020 programme, which covers leading innovative climate initiatives, has shown an interest in this. H&F proposes to work with an engagement partner who will support on research, development, implementation and measurement of this hyper-localised approach to engagement.

4. To note the other schemes already underway and expanding, including the HFCE green energy co-op, feasibility studies for large scale clean energy networks, support for residents in fuel poverty, and social housing retrofit projects in the West Kensington and White City estates among others.

Councillor Wesley Harcourt (Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Ecology) introduced the report which sought approval for a package of programmes aimed at streamlining access to clean energy opportunities and technologies for H&F residents. The heart of these proposals was a new ‘Healthy Homes’ service to guide residents through the design, funding and implementation of housing retrofit projects.

Councillor Harcourt highlighted that the two proposed Healthy Homes pilot areas would receive intensive community engagement to further drive and scale clean energy and sustainability measures. One of the pilots was based around social housing and one was in private housing. The proposals built on work underway in H&F to:

• Work with the HFCE green energy co-op to install solar PV on selected H&F.
• Schools, enabling residents to invest in solar energy in the borough.
• Trial innovative green energy flex tariffs in social housing units.
• Support fuel poor residents to save energy and access government grants.
• Design clean heat networks for larger H&F Housing estates.
• Commission the innovative new clean energy network on the Civic Campus.

The report and recommendations were unanimously agreed.

RESOLVED

1. To approve a new H&F service, as part of the H&F ‘Healthy Homes’ programme, to help residents design and install measures including insulation, solar PV, heat pumps and energy storage to their homes. A proposed small grant scheme, administered by H&F, is linked to this to help less well-off residents to pay for measures.

2. To approve the selection of the portion of Wormholt and College Park & Old Oak wards that is H&F social housing as a social housing place-based decarbonisation scheme, including solar energy, batteries, heat pumps, insulation and innovative money saving energy tariffs.

3. To approve the selection of Wendell Park as a private housing place-based decarbonisation scheme, using intensive, targeted communications and engagement, alongside innovative measures such as thermal drone scans, to drive clean energy measures in the neighbourhood. The European Horizon 2020 programme, which covers leading innovative climate initiatives, has shown an interest in this. H&F proposes to work with an engagement partner who will support on research, development, implementation and measurement of this hyper-localised approach to engagement.

4. To note the other schemes already underway and expanding, including the HFCE green energy co-op, feasibility studies for large scale clean energy networks, support for residents in fuel poverty, and social housing retrofit projects in the West Kensington and White City estates among others.