Increasing efficiency and resilience

Object

Representation ID: 12439

Received: 15/10/2021

Respondent: Mrs Anne Tolley

As we desperately try to save our world & reduce our carbon footprint we need to stop building on new land but use brown sites. Walsall town centre has so many properties unused that this should be the first port of call not causing destruction to wildlife & vegeration - so desperately required.

Comment

Representation ID: 16554

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Friends of the Earth Stourbridge

Energy / Power: In Dudley Borough 27% of greenhouse gas emissions are
industrial and commercial. Dudley has 23Gwh of renewable energy.
We would like to see Dudley MBC reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 13% per
year to achieve a zero target by 2030. We suggest some of the following measures
would support this.
• Support the development of renewable energy and energy storage. Aim to
install on every Dudley building with E, W, S roofs, PV solar, with battery
storage, to become mini power stations.
• Switch street lighting to well designed and well directed LED lights for
minimum power consumption.
• Invest in the energy performance of buildings and reduce energy used by
Dudley MBC in its own estate through better insulation, glazing and use of
renewable sources by 2030.
• DMBC to procure only truly renewable electricity by only using suppliers who
purchase both the renewable electricity and its accompanying Renewable
Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGO) certificate directly from its generators.
• Dudley MBC should enable and support the growth and use of green energy,
Our FoE target for Dudley is 212 Gwh by 2030.
• Dudley MBC should divest from all fossil fuels and instead invest in renewable
energy projects, ensure energy is not wasted and prevent the development of
new fossil fuel extraction.

Comment

Representation ID: 23206

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Francesca Jarvis-Rouse

If homes are required let the Black Country take the lead showing how we can build back better. The actual cost of building in carbon efficiencies in the building phase is significantly less than retrofitting. Saving energy and bills for some of the most vulnerable people in UK.

Additionally contractor should be constantly challenged to built environmental for the benefits of the inhabitant and environment not just for profit.

The policy should include operational carbon emissions but also embodied carbon emissions. For a new home, the embodied carbon emissions from construction can be as much as half the carbon footprint measured over its 60-year design life (RICS, 2017)

There is considerable evidence base for much stronger local standards, a there is no agreed national standard, "Future Homes standard" still be some years away and subject to consultation.

The statutory Climate Change Committee have repeatedly made clear that national policies for new homes are not yet driving change at the required pace (CCC,2019).
The United Nations, IPCC, and other commentators consider 2050 targets will be too late to prevent irreversible climate change, missing the Paris target to limit global warming to 1.5degC (UNCC, 2021), (IPCC, 2021).