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Green Deal pilot for Manchester
By editor | 09 Mar, 2011
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Manchester is the setting for the largest Green Deal pilot in the country, with 9,000 social homes due to receive a sustainable retrofit. Housing minister Grant Shapps unveiled the project, which will be paid for by housing associations, with tenants meeting the cost through the money they save on energy bills. The government predicts that the project could create more than 1,800 jobs and bring a £100 million boost to local businesses carrying out the home improvements.

Upgrades will initially be made to 2,500 properties (owned by Salix Homes) within the Greater Manchester Housing Retrofit Programme, and will prepare the way for Greater Manchester's 260,000 social homes to take up the Green Deal. Grant Shapps commented: "The scheme in Manchester will save tenants hundreds of pounds on energy bills and create hundreds of jobs for local people. It shows that going green is not just an environmental necessity; it's also a huge economic opportunity for UK companies to expand their businesses, and become world leaders in the shift to a low carbon economy."

The scheme is designed to be the model for upgrading the country's 3.8 million households in the social rented sector, which account for nearly 20% of all households in England. According to CLG, by 2015 up to 100,000 Green Deal workers could be employed nationally in the effort to upgrade Britain's homes.



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