rural environment
29 Aug 2022
The Rural Heating Challenge – National Rural Conference 2022 Feature Article
The Rural Heating Challenge Late last year, the long-awaited Heat and Buildings Strategy was published setting out details of a £3.9 billion package of support to decarbonise heat for buildings....
Read more
29 Aug 2022
It’s time for a technology inclusive approach to heating rural homes – National Rural Conference 2022 Feature Article
OFTEC, an organisation with decades of experience in the rural heating industry, sets out the challenges and solutions for decarbonising off-gas-grid heating. The current cost of living crisis has driven...
Read more
22 Aug 2022
Pay farmers to restore habitats on lowest grade land, thinktank says
Farming UK reports that a new report by the Green Alliance has found that farmers can boost incomes if they are paid to restore habitats on lowest grade agricultural land...
Read more
01 Aug 2022
Why heat pumps sum up all that is wrong with ‘net zero’
The Telegraph reports how strict planning could force households to buy heat pumps even if they do not want them They were intended to be the silver bullet that meant...
Read more
27 Jul 2022
Rural consumers deserve choice in how they decarbonise their home, report finds
Ministers must not penalise rural home and business owners who live off the gas grid by making them guinea pigs in the drive to decarbonise heating, a report from the...
Read more
11 Jul 2022
Reaching Rural Properties
The Yorkshire Post reports on a new report launched by Localis, an independent think tank, titled Reaching Rural Properties: Off Grid heating in the transition to net zero The article...
Read more
11 Jul 2022
English farmers count cost of changes to subsidy regime
The Financial Times reports that a new report by the Countryside and Community Research Institute calculated that across the south-west of England, the wider region — comprising Devon, Dorset, Cornwall...
Read more
04 Jul 2022
Gove announces multi-year funding and new Office for Local Government
As detailed in the Local Government Chronicle – Councils can expect a funding settlement covering the next two financial years and are to face greater scrutiny from a new Office...
Read more
04 Jul 2022
Levelling up the Leading Edge: Investing in our natural assets for collective wealth
A report produced by Cornwall Council, University of Exeter and Britain’s Leading Edge argues the case for investing in the environment and thinking more creatively about how the abundance of...
Read more
04 Jul 2022
Cornwall Council team up with OVO Energy to bring 400 warmer, greener homes to Cornwall
Insulation, heat pumps and solar are among the measures being installed. Image credit: OVO Ovo Energy Solutions, Cornwall Council and Council of the Isles of Scilly are retrofitting 400 homes...
Read more