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Save the terrace! Homebaked CLT Over several years our friends at Homebaked CLT in Anfield, Liverpool, have been working to bring an unoccupied terrace back into community ownership and use. The terrace was initially slated for demolition as part of Housing Market Renewal - a programme which tore apart communities in Liverpool and many other northern towns. Since that was halted, the CLT have worked determinedly to secure the terrace and bring it back into use, providing warm and affordable homes and business space under community ownership. This has involved many years of negotiations with Liverpool City Council, and the input of a dedicated CLT, design team (including the community) and many other stakeholders who want to see this scheme happen. In a recent and surprise development, Liverpool City Council have listed the Oakfield terrace for disposal on the open market. You can see more on the background to that in this short blog here: https://lnkd.in/ePy7A-WJ  There’s also a good summary of the CLT argument by Paul Kelly here: https://lnkd.in/eNyWh3J4 This project is close to many of us at Carbon Co-op and People Powered Retrofit who previously worked at URBED, and supported the scheme from concept designs through to securing Planning Permission. The designs were rooted in high quality, energy efficient and healthy homes - and if realised could be a brilliant precedent. As all the hard work on the terrace continued behind the scenes, Homebaked have continued their work in the community - continuing conversations about energy, raising awareness of retrofit, all with the ambition to secure warm, affordable homes for all. We’ve been proud to support their Cosy Homes Club work in small part. This is not just about the terrace, it’s about catalysing a whole neighbourhood approach to healthy homes and thriving communities. The Liverpool City Council Cabinet meet today, Tuesday 10th December, to approve the decision to put Oakfield terrace on the open market list. We stand with Homebaked CLT and call on Liverpool City Council to reconsider this decision.

We are pleased to have joined together with a coalition of local government organisations to ask the government to designate local and community energy as ‘needed’ within the Clean Power 2030 plan.  Local and community energy can give people a direct stake in the energy transition, build public support for net zero and enable local government to shape the energy system to meet the needs of their places. Local authorities across the UK are already producing their own plans to develop clean energy, enable warm, low-carbon homes and boost local economies. It is critical that the energy infrastructure can enable these plans and support local net zero efforts, while also facilitating the gigawatts of new generation needed to deliver our clean power targets. Co-signed by the Local Government Association, UK100, Cymdeithas Llywodraeth Leol Cymru | Welsh Local Government Association and CLAW (The Consortium of Local Authorities in Wales), the letter seeks to keep local and community energy on the same agenda as the bigger projects that will be the focus of the Clean Power Plan. It provides examples from across the UK of the added value of local and community energy and how it can help people and places thrive, and offers to provide any further evidence needed by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Read it below or click here: https://lnkd.in/edtHeUEG

🏡 In this report, Home Retrofit for Public Health and Climate Resilience, we explore how to build public health and climate resilience outcomes into an area-based retrofit scheme for the able-to-pay market.    This paper examines the feasibility of implementing the blueprint across various regions in the UK, highlighting challenges and opportunities for aligning local public health and climate resilience goals with home retrofit initiatives.   Read more at the link in the comments 👇    Oldham Council, Carbon Co-op #Retrofit #Homes #Housing #Innovation #Technology 

NEW LEARNING WEBINAR: we are leading an innovative place-based retrofit pilot, aggregating householders into a single scheme and bringing together finance, design and construction in an integrated programme that focusses on financial accessibility, high quality retrofit and householder-centred engagement. Now we are at the construction phase and on site, we're bringing together a number of the key players in this free learning webinar. This session would interest people from local authorities, policy making circles, retrofit and community energy sectors as well as anyone with an interest in place-based community wealth building approaches and initiatives. Featuring: Jonathan Atkinson, Hannah Dixon, Michael Dickinson, Aneaka Kellay, Julie Maxwell and Jennifer B.. Book your place here: https://lnkd.in/eMHDpr33

It was great to partner with Eleanor May Benton, Jessica Horne Rowan from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Carbon Co-op today to review the Retrofit for All Toolkit - putting people at the heart of retrofit. Thanks, as always, to YHA Chester Trafford Hall for having us!