More than £5 million is to be spent improving the energy performances of homes in Sneinton as part of a European project to create ‘smart cities’.
Sneinton is one of three areas to be part of the project, called REMOURBAN, which aims to help people be healthier while cutting energy bills and carbon emissions.
Homes will get LED lighting, insulation, and an extended district heating system.
City councillor Alan Clark, portfolio holder for energy and sustainability, said: “Our involvement in this project has brought much needed funds to the Windmill Lane area in Sneinton.”
“We have targeted hard-to-treat houses that have little insulation and are expensive to keep warm. The funding will enable us to deliver external wall insulation and other energy saving measures.”
Greener Sneinton: Actions under the project include;
- Treating more than 400 Nottingham City Homes properties and private houses in the Windmill Lane area with energy saving measures.
- Demonstrating an ultra-low energy standard on nine houses, so they will need almost no heating, and exploring the options to replicate this across the city.
- Extending the district heating network to 94 homes.
- Piloting the concept of low temperature community heating, which could allow Nottingham to roll out its low carbon heat from waste to many more domestic properties in the future.
- Introducing a delivery hub for parcels, with carbon neutral transport for the last mile.
- Extending the city car club to Sneinton, bringing a parking bay and electric vehicle charging point to the area.
Five cities around Europe are also trialling different urban regeneration models which could be replicated elsewhere in Nottingham.
They include Valladolid in Spain, Tepebasi/Eskisehir in Turkey, Seraing in Belgium and Miskolc in Hungary.
Nottingham’s transport options are set to get a lot greener.”
Councillor Nick McDonald, portfolio holder for jobs, growth and transport, said: “Our involvement in these partnerships will not only help shape our strategy to become the UK’s greenest transport city but also inform other cities across Europe and the world on how to develop sustainable transport.
He added: “We have also recently secured a share of a £6 million fund to develop an electric vehicle charging network and a city centre Clean Air Zone to improve air quality. Nottingham’s transport options are set to get a lot greener.”
Change the lives of hundreds of Nottingham Residents
Dr Anton Ianakiev, a reader in civil engineering at Nottingham Trent University, said: “Not only does this serve as the basis for insightful research into how existing UK housing stock can be retrospectively insulated en masse, but it will help change the lives of hundreds of Nottingham residents by providing them with warmer and more sustainable homes.”
