The need for community-scale delivery
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The Green Deal combined with growth of the low carbon economy are key policy objectives for the Government, driven by the need to improve 7 million homes by 2020 and to reach out to 26 million existing homes by 2050.
To deliver the Government’s ambitions, and to ensure greater certainty of delivering a ‘triple bottom line’ of social, economic and environmental benefits for communities, programmes will be needed that engage local people and communities in order to achieve a critical mass of participation.
In response to this need the HCA and the SHAP partners have worked together to develop a model for local delivery. The ‘Community Green Deal’ proposes a cross tenure approach to delivery and financing which would enable a number of the potential barriers to the Green Deal to be overcome, quickly building scale in order to access finance and create sufficient demand to provide certainty for local economic development.
Community-scale programmes would offer greater certainty of achieving domestic carbon reduction targets and at lower cost through the anticipated economies of scale, supply chain development and higher levels of participation that could be achieved. They would also enable programmes, and the disruption they will inevitably entail, to be better managed in partnership with communities who will benefit.