Paul welcomes action for Warmer Greener Homes

 

The strategy will ensure every home in Britain, where practical, is fitted with loft and cavity wall insulation by 2015.

Paul welcomes action for Warmer Greener Homes

Paul Blomfield welcomed Government plans, announced today, to upgrade the British housing stock to cut energy bills, reduce carbon emissions and increase energy security.

The ‘Warm Homes, Greener Homes' strategy will ensure every home in Britain, where practical, is fitted with loft and cavity wall insulation by 2015. Up to 7 million British households will benefit from eco-upgrades by 2020. And we will introduce new ‘pay as you save' green finance to make energy efficiency pay from day one.

Paul said "This is a great move which will make homes greener, save householders money and create jobs."   Installing some technologies, such as solid wall insulation, could see energy bills cut by £380 a year (average between 2013 and 2020). It will also help create up to 65,000 jobs in the green home industry.

When the cameras are on, David Cameron talks about tackling climate change. But when the cameras are off, Conservative councils oppose more than half of wind energy applications. That policy is bad for the environment, bad for customers and bad for energy security.