Birmingham City Council is currently considering a revolutionary project that could see thousands of homes and businesses in Birmingham fitted with energy efficient improvements.
The Green New Deal project that eventually aims to see all homes in Birmingham retrofitted with the energy efficient improvements will be launched as a pilot project within Aston, Lozells, Newton and Northfield. 25,000 homeowners and 1000 businesses will be offered the chance to trial the significant energy improvements made to their properties through use of both insulation and small scale generation, which will eventually save them money.
Councillor Paul Tilsey, Deputy Leader of the Birmingham city Council, said:
“The project offers a fantastic opportunity for homeowners to not only cut carbon pollution, but also save themselves thousands of pounds by drastically reducing future bills without the need for any huge up front payment”
Not only does the project have prospects of saving energy and reducing C02 emissions, it also serves as potential career opportunities, opening up 270 jobs in the process. It was suggested that by hitting their five-year target of one in fives homes in the pilot area taking up the scheme, this would still see an annual C02 saving of more than 3750 tonnes.
Councillor Paul Tilsey goes on to say that,
“If we can successfully operate this scheme within the pilot area, and really get local people bought in, then there is no reason at all we can’t look to roll this out across all of Birmingham in the future, setting a green standard beyond that of any city in the world.”
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If this does actually happen then it would be great! Birmingham definately needs some environmental changes to happen, recycling really needs to be combated.
I think they should be offering the scheme to more people as I for one would like to try out some environmental energy saving products.
I agree Emma, Birmingham definitely needs to increase its recycling and increase the ways in which it tackles with climate change.
Whilst Birmingham is getting better, there’s always room for more to be done!
At home in Bath the recylcing is a lot better than Birmingham. Every bit of recycling we put out gets taken straight away, here in Selly Oak they rarely collect it. That’s why the majority of students here don’t bother with recycling anymore. It doesn’t encourage them at all.
I live in Perry Barr and they’re actually getting much better at picking up our recycling compared to the start of the year! I’m not really sure if this coincidence or me just noticing it more now.
My house recycles a lot! Bottles, cereal boxes, newspapers, cans…you name it, we recycle it!
It’s good that your recycling is getting picked up in Perry Barr. It’s frustrating that they don’t seem to ever collect it here.
Our one recycling bin got stolen the other day too, so now we have nothing to put it in!