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Boost For Green Housing in Yorkshire

Posted: 28/05/2005

An environmentally friendly housing development in South Yorkshire has been selected for Government funding as part of a national campaign to reduce greenhouse gases. Some 24 three-bedroomed homes, designed to save energy, will be built in Rotherham by the South Yorkshire Housing Association. It is hoped the scheme will be a blueprint for other developers in the region wanting to use environmentally friendly technology.

The site, at Henley Rise, Thorn Hill, will get a share of a £1.35m Government award to support 14 solar energy projects nationwide. The homes will have solar roof panels, converting light to electricity and should reduce carbon dioxide produced from generating electricity by 30 tonnes a year.

Solar thermal heating and effective insulation should cut energy bills by 70 per cent a year – and all systems are non-polluting. The funding for the Rotherham scheme was announced by Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks as part of the Government's plan for the UK to generate ten per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2010. The grants are funded by the Department of Trade and Industry, which has put £18m into such schemes.

Three-quarters of the homes built in Rotherham will be let to housing association tenants with the others sold at affordable prices. South Yorkshire Housing Association has been using environmentally friendly materials for some time on properties being refurbished. A spokesman said: "We have made good progress in recent years with eco-refurbishment schemes in Rotherham and other areas in South Yorkshire."

Paul Whitehouse / Yorkshire Post  
 

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