Michael Donnelly,
PlanningResource,
4 February 2010
Twelve communities from across the UK are to receive up to £500,000 each to help install new green technologies.
The grant money, awarded through the government’s Low Carbon Community Challenge, will be spent on a range of green measures which will cut carbon and save energy.
The 12 communities are: Hook Norton, near Banbury, Oxfordshire; Ashton Hayes, near Chester, Cheshire; Easterside in Middlesbrough; Halton, near Lancaster; Exmoor National Park in Somerset and Devon; Whitehill-Bordon in East Hampshire; Ladock and Grampound Road in mid-Cornwall; Ballymena, Northern Ireland; Camphill Community Glencraig, Northern Ireland; Cwmclydach, nr Pontypridd, South Wales; Awel Aman Tawe Community Wind Farm in Upper Amman and Swansea Valley, South Wales; Glogue, Hermon and Llanfyrnach, nr Preselli Hills, Pembrokeshire.
Energy and Climate Change minister Joan Ruddock said: "The huge enthusiasm for the Low Carbon Communities Challenge demonstrates that local people are passionate about building a low carbon future in the UK. Today’s winners will act as a test bed for green action, and show us all what a greener future looks like.
"This sort of action is vital because over a quarter of the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions come from heating, lighting and powering electrical appliances in our homes. By 2050 this needs to be almost zero and we can only achieve that through the creative initiative of local communities."
michael.donnelly@haymarket.com
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