Local Area Agreement

CSEP is leading on delivery of a Local Area Agreement (LAA) Stretch Target to support the growth of Cornwall's sustainable energy business cluster by increasing the take-up of low and zero carbon microgeneration measures in domestic and community buildings. Stretch targets attract about £100k pump-priming funding over 3 years and on successful achievement of the target in 2009, £1m reward funding.

Summary of the Energy LAA & Stretch Target proposal

CSEP's Energy in Buildings Group is the lead delivery partnership for this LAA outcome. Strategic champions for CSEP's LAA outcome are Cllr Adam Paynter (Environment portfolio holder), Stephen Bohane (SWRDA) and Jim McKenna (CEO, Penwith District Council).

In the two years since CSEP’s ECON2 LAA outcome started, the installed capacity of renewable energy measures in domestic and community buildings has tripled and there has been a 6-fold increase in the number of renewable energy measures installed in domestic and community buildings in Cornwall.

As part of the LAA delivery plan CSEP has been providing free technical and funding advice to developers, architects, housing associations, community groups etc. and has facilitated microgeneration installations in a number of social and private sector housing developments. See CSEP newsletters for more details.

Visit the Cornwall Strategic Partnership website for more information on LAA Targets.

For more information on local installers, click here.