Climate emergency strategy
Theme 1: At home
Leicester City Council will:
- Improve our understanding of how to make housing carbon neutral, safe and comfortable in a changing climate
- Reduce emissions from council houses through energy efficiency improvements
- Engage with tenants, owner-occupiers, landlords and housing associations to raise awareness of energy saving measures
- Increase renewable energy generation and install low carbon heating into council houses
- Enforce national minimum standards for energy efficiency and affordable heating in private rented houses
- Continue to support owner-occupiers in fuel poverty to access funding to improve energy efficiency and replace inefficient or faulty boilers
- Lobby central government to improve regulations and funding for energy efficiency, carbon reduction and affordable warmth across all housing tenures
More homes and employment sites in the city will be vulnerable to flood risk due to more frequent and intense winter rainfall, with added pressure on the city’s drainage infrastructure and rivers.
Actions for 2020-2023 include:
- 38 new A-rated low carbon council houses at Saffron Lane phase 2
- Invest £3.2m per year to replace boilers in council housing with A-rated, energy efficient boilers
- Continue to install LED lighting in communal areas on council housing estates
- Develop a programme to replace electric storage heaters in council houses
- Carry out feasibility and develop a programme to install solar PV panels on council housing
- Run Leicester’s Warmer Homes, Greener Homes scheme to help vulnerable residents in fuel poverty
- Install energy saving and renewable energy measures in over 500 homes through the Green Homes Grants scheme which will reduce fuel bills for homeowners and save up to 300 tonnes of carbon emissions