Issue - meetings

Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Commercial Services

The Committee gave consideration to a report providing an update to two important projects being undertaken by the Climate Change Board to help to get domestic properties to be more heat efficient and also setting out a wider heat and energy efficiency strategy.

Decision

The Policy and Resources Committee –

1.    noted the emerging requirements to develop a Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy (LHEES); and

2.    commended and agreed to promote the successful installation of over £3.4m worth of property upgrades in the region to make homes more heat efficient through working in partnership with Scottish Government’s Energy Efficient Scotland: Area Based Scheme (EES:ABS) and other partners.

(Reference:  Report by Executive Director with responsibility for Commercial Services dated 5 April 2023, submitted)