If you interested in improving the insulation of your home, Bath & North East Somerset Council’s ‘Energy At Home’ Scheme continues to offer free advice and non-means tested grants for: Loft insulaiton Room in roof insulation Cavity wall insulation Solid wall insulation Additionally they offer means tested support for replacement gas boilers and electric storage […]
If you are planning on or are in the process of having building work done on your home did you know you can potentially avoid paying VAT at 20% on some of the work if it involves ‘energy saving’ for example insulation. Building work associated with ‘energy saving’ is only chargeable at 5% but most […]
Bath and North East Somerset Council have recently launched 2 consultation relating to transport in central Bath: Bath Air Quality Action Plan (deadline 26 Nov 2017) Parking Strategy (deadline 23 Oct 2017) Parking Strategy Consultation This consultation is to help formulate a long-term plan for parking in Bath, and includes: Parking Standards for new developments; Public off‐street parking including Park and Ride; Public on‐street parking and Residents parking zones; Private off‐street parking; Parking Charges; […]
A website and energy education programme being developed by Transition Bath and Bath: Hacked has been trialled at Freshford Primary School. the aim of the trial was to improve the website we have developed which displays smart meter data from schools in Bath, and allows school’s to compete in a competition to save energy by […]
B&NES Placemaking Plan has been adopted after several years of development, approval by the Planning Inspectorate and B&NES Council. The plan sets out where major housing and commercial development can take place in Bath over the next few years. The major impact from a sustainability perspective is that subject to viability all new developments for homes […]
Holly Robarts, a second year student from Cardiff University is investigating the impact of fuel poverty in Bath, and is investing how local and national government is trying to reduce the issue. 12.4% of Bath residents were in fuel poverty in 2015, which is a relatively high figure for a prosperous area, and can lead […]
To meet demand from tenants HPH has invested £20K, plus a further £6K of government funding in providing electric car charging points following demand from its tenants. It has installed charging points in Kingsmead Square, at its car park in Monmouth Place and other local sites. Each charging point car charge up to 4 vehicles. […]
Transition Bath’s Energy Sparks Schools’ Energy Education Programme will be starting in the Autumn, its aim is three fold; to reduce schools’ energy bills (by up to 20%), to teach pupils about energy, and through this, teach curriculum subjects like maths and science. It is a FREE programme based around our recently launched Energy Sparks […]
Last night’s mayoral hustings at BRLSI was packed, we had to open a second room to hold all the audience who had come to see the mayoral candidates for the West of England Combined Authority explain their future policy – with a focus on what they would do to make Bath and the region more […]
Members of Transition Bath welcomed a PhD researcher, Cristina Longo, to their ranks in the period up to 2014. Cristina was conducting research into the practice of sustainable consumption: everyday spending being guided by concern for planetary sustainability. In her discussions with us, the individual dilemmas were more obvious than the solutions, to the extent […]