LEAD is a £1.2M scheme to stimulate demand for energy efficiency measures in homes across North Yorkshire. The funding has been received from the Department of Energy Security and NET Zero and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and will be focusing around retrofitting homes to reduce energy consumption. The project will be piloted in seven neighbourhoods around Stokesley and other towns across North Yorkshire.
Events in Stokesley and Great Ayton, have been run by North Yorkshire Council with support from Climate Action Stokesley and Villages group, plus we have publicised through the Darlington and Stockton Times, put up posters, promoted via social media and our own monthly Update. As a result approximately 40 properties in our area will be receiving a free home energy plan.
North Yorkshire Council let us know that:
“Following the communications work and the events, we have received an overwhelming response to the LEAD scheme and registrations for a Home Energy Plan. We have reached full capacity the Great Ayton and Stokesley and villages areas. As a result, we will no longer be accepting any new registrations within this area.
I just wanted to say a quick thank you to you and all the volunteers who have supported this project by attending events, sharing leaflets and just promoting the scheme. Your support, community knowledge and connects have been a key driver in this project reaching this point.”
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Led by North Yorkshire Council, the scheme will be focused on specific streets, villages and neighbourhoods where studies have highlighted priority areas and where interest in tackling climate change through retrofitted schemes has been shown.
Households in these pilot areas will be offered a free ‘whole house plan’ – a survey of their homes with advice on what would be needed to make them more energy efficient such as new windows and doors, or cavity wall and loft insulation.
About 325 plans will be facilitated through the project, comprising in-house assessments, whole house plan development in collaboration with the householder, and elements of design work, leaving the resident with a clear plan of action and next steps to implement their retrofit project.
Updated July 2024
Climate Action Stokesley and Villages 