Climate development plan: Residential sector has to measure Build emissions in build AND operate, per year.
The build sectors emissions have to be included, by year, for 2020 to 2030, for both residential newbuild + vacant/regeneration.
For each council home bought/appraised, the LCA has to be submitted by the developer/party prior to entry into contract, as per DEPR capital plan rules.
A table showing emissions per year from the build as a result of the county housing plan.
The state, as the largest player in the build / residential market, has to frontload carbon, and specifically, apply the EU Green procurement into county law + bye-laws.
Specifically, any homes bought by council from developers as turnkey are to be built to Zero Carbon in the Build + Operate from 2025 onwards.
Why?
Leadership.
This, for 900 homes a year, means 300 homes built to Zero Carbon creates certainty of supply, which then attracts in SME's to supply the pipeline.
Further, the council can specify, as per OECD/Community Wealth building being applied by DCC + Scotland councils, that 70% of the spend / materials have to be sourced within the South East region.
With 50 Tonnes per 100m2 newbuild, for c900 homes a year, that adds 45,000 tonnes of CO2 a year using existing methods. Or to 2030, 315,000 tonnes. Which adds 31% to 2020 levels of Emissions.
To enable SME's, a regional Fast build factory is recommended to be set up as a UDZ, with the full supply chain co-located.
This means Waterford + South East being first, not last, and front loading the plan, rather than kicking the can to
On existing, A community energy co-op set up in each town to tap into the €7bn cash on deposits across the county and this co-op finances the rollout of renewables /PPA's, firstly, onto the 6,000 homes in fuel poverty (council + private), then the council houses.
Target fuel poverty solved by 2030, which is then 750 homes a year for 5 years, starting in 2025, post 2024 "pilot".
To measure results/progress, a digital quarterly tracker is placed live to measure town by town performance from DoE to see "who's first to decarbonise" by expansion of Tableau/GIS. Town by town allows tapping into town rivalries; Dungarvan vs Abbeyside vs Tramore vs etc.
The progress communicated to schools and Transition years as key channel to get them engaged and hopefully around progress, rather than old school councillors who are barriers today to delivery and not in touch with the real urgency + needs of the 65% below the age of 45 in the county.
