Local authorities are set to invest billions in greening their housing stock under the flagship green deal programme, reports Building. Birmingham City Council is currently shortlisting firms for £1.4bn of Green deal whilst councils across the North East of England , as well as in Greater Manchester, Leeds and and Bristol are preparing to invest more than £300m in the next few months.
Newcastle council working with a number of other authorities across the north east is set to issue tender documents within the next three months for £80m to retrofit £15,000 homes. Leeds is drawing up plans which could see it leverage up to £75m to start retrofit work.
Ministers will welcome the push from local authorities to take the lead on the programme with councils teaming up to create schemes of sufficient scale to make them viable and attractive to private sector partners.
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