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Warm Homes Fund Grant
Meeting: 06/11/2017 - Cabinet (Item 41)
41 Warm Homes Fund Grant PDF 116 KB
(Cabinet Decision)
Minutes:
The Assistant Director, Housing and Built Environment, presented a report which sought agreement for the council to enter into a funding agreement with Osbourne Energy to install new heating systems in fuel poor households.
In Hastings, 11.3% of households live in fuel poverty, significantly above the national average. This means that residents can not afford to heat their homes to the temperature needed to stay warm and healthy, often their heating systems are also inefficient and expensive to run.
The council submitted a successful bid to the warm homes grant fund, in partnership with East Sussex County Council Public Health. The Hastings element of the project involves installing 50 new heating systems in eligible homes, through the winter homes check service. The new heating systems will be enhanced with new technologies to help households make the most efficient use of their new heating provision.
Under rule 13.3, the recommendations of the report were agreed without being called for discussion.
RESOLVED that:
1. Members agree to enter into a revised section 136 Local Government Act 1976 agreement with East Sussex County Council for the defrayment costs relating to the coordination of the East Sussex fuel reduction programme
2. The council enter into a funding agreement with Osborne Energy Ltd (as the appointed winter homes check provider) for the delivery of the warm homes fund in Hastings
The reason for this decision was:
A successful application to the warm homes fund has been made by East Sussex County Council on behalf of the East Sussex Energy Partnership. In order for activities to be undertaken in Hastings and be eligible for use as match funding against the EU Interreg SHINE grant a section 136 agreement is required to be entered into to transfer the Hastings element of the successful bid.
It is proposed to extend the existing funding agreement with Osborne Energy Ltd, who presently administer the Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) health inequalities funded major measures works, to deliver the warm homes fund in Hastings.
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