£250,000 allocated to Huntingdonshire 'Net Zero Villages'
Rural communities across the District are being encouraged to help cut carbon emissions
A Cambridgeshire Council's been funded a quarter of a million pounds to support advancements in its 'Net Zero Villages' project.
Communities across Huntingdonshire District Council are being encouraged and supported to take meaningful steps towards reducing carbon emissions, as well as improving energy efficiency.
The initiative is funded by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA), and has already funded ten successful applicants.
Outcomes from those projects include reducing carbon emissions and energy consumption, lowering the running costs of community facilities, mitigating overheating in buildings, engaging residents in climate-positive behaviour change and showing how projects can be replicated elsewhere in the district.
Several more projects are scheduled to begin over the coming months, with one of the current completed schemes benefiting Great Staughton Village Hall.
A new heat pump system's been installed, something which Treasurer of Great Staughton Village Hall, Helen Glanville believes has been a huge asset to the village.
She said "Great Staughton Village Hall is delighted to have been awarded the Net Zero Villages Grant to replace our oil-fired heating system with an electric ASHP. As a small rural community we could not possibly have afforded to replace the heating on our own. This Grant has enabled our village to remove fossil fuels from our community asset, assisting the village on its road to Net Zero.”