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£3m for low carbon homes
Katharine Barney1 May 2009
Ten low carbon zones are to be introduced across London in a drive to cut emissions, create jobs and slash energy bills in the capital.
The areas could be as small as a couple of streets or encompass areas of 1,000 buildings and will have a target to deliver 20.12 per cent of carbon emissions savings by 2012.
Residential areas will feature home insulation and meter readers so people can monitor energy use. There will be a focus on using solar panels and human and garden waste as fuel sources.
Boroughs interested in having a zone will be able to apply to Boris Johnson for funding from a £3 million pot. Each successful bid will receive a minimum of £200,000. The Mayor was launching the scheme at Prince Charles's May Day Summit on Climate Change today.
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This is an excellent initiative, and one that needs expanding, as the most important legacy we can leave our children. As a resident of Chalton Street, London NW1, I urge the London Borough of Camden, and particularly the ward councillors of St. Pancras and Somers Town ward, to bid for funds to be used in Chalton Street, where our weekly street market and the annual Somers Town Festival of Cultures is held. We are one of the most deprived wards in London, with one of the highest suicide rates, with mostly council and housing association housing, which would benefit from all these measures. As someone who rents a top floor flat I volunteer it for a solar roof, and urge its owner, SPH/Origin Housing, to reconsider their refusal to do so. I realise this is an unashamed plea for 'my own back yard' but I hope the newly formed Symposium for the regeneration of Somers Town will put the greening of the area, in both visible green spaces such as community gardens/allotments and parks, and in less visible ways such as recycling garden and human waste as a top priority. I believe that this would do a lot more for the health of the residents than the proposed medical research centre, whose valuable work could be more safely and appropriately carried out in a less high density population area. So come on Camden, go for it, and for once lets include Somers Town and do something positive for our area. I hope all areas of London will very soon be included in this initiative.
Thankyou!
- Jennie, Somers Town, England, 02/05/2009 18:13
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