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Affordable Warmth Strategy

Meeting: 18/10/2023 - Cabinet (Item 54)

54 Affordable Warmth Strategy pdf icon PDF 217 KB

Lead Member - Councillor Dean Carroll - Portfolio Holder for Housing and Assets

 

Report of Mark Barrow, Executive Director of Place

 

Additional documents:

Decision:

RESOLVED:

 

To approve and adopt the Sustainable Affordable Warmth Strategy, attached at Appendix I.

Minutes:

The Portfolio Holder for Housing and Assets presented the report which explained that the proposed Sustainable Affordable Warmth Strategy, which has completed an eight-week public consultation period, seeks to tackle fuel poverty; this being when households must spend a high proportion of their income to keep their home at a reasonable temperature; and tackle climate change, through reducing carbon emissions from residential dwellings.

 

Members welcomed the report and congratulated officers for the work carried out. It was noted that the main constraint in tackling fuel poverty and reducing carbon emissions was capacity and expertise

 

RESOLVED:

 

To approve and adopt the Sustainable Affordable Warmth Strategy, attached at Appendix I.


 

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