The climate change and sustainability strategy
Energy and the built environment
Lewes Local Plan
The Local Plan is currently being drafted and it is set to be published in 2025.
Towards a Local Plan spatial strategy and policies directions (PDF, 7 MB)
Energy Saving Trust
Information and advice on home energy efficiency measures to keep your home warm whilst reducing your carbon footprint and energy bills.
Fuel Poverty
Fuel poverty is a serious and complicated issue, which energy suppliers are helping to tackle in a number of ways.
Visit our webpage on Fuel poverty
Help on energy costs is also available via cost of living crisis support.
Help with the rising costs of living
UK Green Building Council
The UKGBC aims to improve the sustainability of the built environment, by transforming the way it is planned, designed, constructed, maintained and operated.
Report: UK housing: Fit for the future?
This report aims to assess the measures that need to be adopted in the housing sector to both manage climate change impacts and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Committee on Climate Change - Housing Fit For The Future (PDF, 4 MB)
OVESCO
A community organisation in East Sussex that creates community owned renewable energy projects, and offers an energy champion service providing free retrofitting advice to homeowners and household energy bill help and advice to all residents.
Great British Insulation Scheme
On the 14 September 2023, the government launched the £1 billion Great British Insulation Scheme to help some families insulate their homes. Families in lower council tax bands with less energy-efficient homes will be offered upgrades such as roof, loft or cavity wall insulation. Use an online checker for the Great British Insulation Scheme to find out if you are eligible
Boiler Upgrade Scheme
You can get one grant per property. Current grants are available for: £7,500 towards an air source heat pump, £7,500 towards a ground source heat pump (including water source heat pumps and those on shared ground loops), £5,000 towards a biomass boiler
Apply for a boiler upgrade scheme
Decarbonising Our Council Housing Report
Summary of groundbreaking research on retrofitting and decarbonising council owned homes at scale.
Decarbonising our Housing Stock: Roadmap for 2030 zero carbon
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