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Low
Carbon Communities Challenge
The Department of Energy and Climate Change called for projects
proposals from communities designed to reduce their carbon
footprint. We put a team together in late 2009 who laboured
through the Christmas period to produce our vision and proposals,
and collect letters of support from numerous organisations
within the town. Our bid was one of around two hundred and
fifty full applications.
Out of these full applications, DECC were only able to support
22 projects. The selection panel provided the following
summary feedback on Henley in Transition's application:
“The town's HiT group have defined actions and objectives
around sustainability and one of these is to be carbon neutral
by 2012. It has four projects under this banner which have
been put forward for LCCC funding: a hydro power exhibition
centre, a trial solar power Greenhouse Development, Henley
Forest and various retrofit projects. HiT appears to be
a really active, well organised group with considerable ambition.
They are well linked to the local key organisations as well
as other appropriate local and national sustainability groups.
The application is quite close to the success criteria in
many places however a lack of detail exists on how the projects
would be delivered and the potential carbon savings. There
is good community buy-in and support for HiT, enthusiasm from
members demonstrated by the progress made and action in only
12 months.”
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