Decision Maker: Environment and Sustainable Communities Committee, Combined Authority Board
Decision status: Recommendations approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: No
To approve GSENZH to apply for and deliver the
Warmer Homes – Local Grant scheme across a consortia of Local
Authorities in the GSENZH area using capital grant funding from
DESNZ over a 3-5 year period
RESOLVED:
A. i) To note the national issues with delivery of previous retrofit schemes that the GSENZ Hub have delivered, the reputational and financial risk to the CPCA and the GSENZ Hub.
ii) To agree to the GSENZ Hub undertaking a prompt engagement exercise with the Hub Board and consortia members alongside a risk assessment to inform a final decision whether to submit an expression of interest as the Contracting Authority and Accountable Body for the new Government’s Warm Homes: Local Grant.
B. To recommend to the CA Board to delegate authority to the Executive Director of Place and Connectivity to work with the Chair of ESC to evaluate the engagement evidence and outcome of the risk assessment and to conclude whether to submit an Expression of Interest as the application timeline requires decision between committee dates.
C. To recommend to the CA Board that the ‘GSENZ Hub is approved to apply on behalf of local authorities in the GSENZ Hub consortia to deliver the Warm Homes: Local Grant scheme’. On the condition that the outcome from recommendations A & B concludes this is the appropriate decision and to report this decision back to the CA Board
Report author: Maxine Narburgh
Publication date: 28/10/2024
Date of decision: 25/10/2024
Decided at meeting: 25/10/2024 - Environment and Sustainable Communities Committee
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