Wakefield Council and its partners are committed to tackling fuel poverty and reducing domestic carbon emissions across the district.

In order to continue the good work achieved through the Wakefield Affordable Warmth Strategy 2007-2010 a new Action Plan has been developed to guide and stimulate this activity between 2011-2016. It contains an annual delivery plan of key activity which will be reviewed and forumated every year.

Our shared vision to achieve ‘Greener Homes, Healthier Homes’ is:

‘To work in partnership to ensure everyone in the Wakefield district can afford to live in a warm, safe home. Homes will be energy efficient; have reduced carbon emissions achieved through greater awareness and understanding, which leads to improved health and quality of life.’

In order to deliver this vision our three core aims are:

1. Strategic and Partnerships – working together to tackle and promote domestic carbon saving and affordable warmth.
   
   Our aim is for all agencies to play a part in raising the profile and identifying the links of fuel poverty and domestic carbon saving to partner’s policy and plans. Activity to assist households should be mainstreamed in to partner service delivery and embedded in to strategies. We must aim to take full advantage of developing skills as part of the new carbon saving economy.
   
   
2. Vulnerable Household Support – helping people to achieve affordable warmth and remove them from fuel poverty.
   
   To reduce fuel poverty and achieve healthier homes we must continue to deliver cross-tenure activity that targets resources at the vulnerable through energy efficiency improvements, energy saving advice, social tariffs and income maximisation. We should ensure that the full potential of reaching these households through frontline health and other partner services is achieved so that excess winter deaths can be reduced.
   
   

3. Domestic Carbon Reduction – reducing CO2 emissions from housing by reducing energy use.

To reduce domestic carbon emissions we must aim to improve the energy efficiency standard of all housing, regardless of tenure, across the District. We must maximise opportunities to secure funding and develop innovative cross-partnership energy efficiency/renewable energy schemes, whilst supporting households with effective and high quality advice. We must ensure all new housing is built to the highest environmental standards.

The Action Plan for Affordable Warmth 2011/16 was officially launched on 8 May 2012.

In March 2012, the Wakefield Affordable Warmth Partnership (WAWP) held a workshop to review the 2011/12 delivery plan and formulate a new, revised 12/13 annual Action Plan. This 2012/13 Action Plan for Affordable Warmth was officially launched on 15 May by the Wakefield Affordable Warmth Partnership.