NEWS RELEASE
I issued the following press release on 01.04.2005
Sustainable Energy Partnership
Westgate House, 2a Prebend Street, London N1 8PT
Chair: Andrew Warren Partnership Organiser: Ron Bailey
Tel.: 020 7359 8000/020 8698 3682; Fax: 020 7359 0863; E-mail: ron-bailey@bargery-rd.fsnet.co.uk
Environmental
Campaigners congratulate Lynne Jones MP
Initiative will help to engage people in measures to deal with Climate
Change
Embargo: immediate
The Sustainable Energy Partnership, whose members include all the major
environmental organisations, today congratulated local MP, Lynne Jones, for signing House
of Commons Early Day Motion No 801. The Motion calls for permitted development status to
be given to micro installation of renewable energy devices by individual householders.
This would avoid the hassle and cost of having to obtain planning permission – thus
encouraging more people to invest in micro energy systems.
At a time when emissions of CO2 are rising and the government is not on track to
meet its targets micro-generation is ‘the new kid on the block’- it would help
reduce fuel bills, emissions of CO2 and it will also engage consumers in averting climate
change – the greatest issue facing the world.
Partnership Organiser Ron Bailey said:
"Climate Change sometimes seems so big an issue that there is little that
individual consumers can do: but the installation of micro generation units is a step that
many people can take. Giving such installations permitted development status will remove
hurdles and cut costs.
"We therefore congratulate Lynne Jones MP for being in the forefront of
current moves to promote micro-generation to reduce climate change."
Further Information from:
Ron Bailey, Partnership Organiser 07951 761229
Note to editor
House of Commons Early Day Motion No 801 reads: "That this House welcomes the
Small Scale Renewable Energy Developments (Permitted Development) Bill introduced into the
House by a cross-party group of honourable Members; notes that the Bill will grant
permitted development status to such developments and therefore enable people to install
them far more easily; notes too that the Bill promotes safeguards to ensure that visual,
environmental and noise effects of such developments will be minimal; and believes that
microgeneration is an exciting new way of combating climate change and of engaging people
in achieving this objective."
Supported by: Association for the Conservation
of Energy, Association for Environment Conscious Building,
Association of Coal Mine Methane Operators, British Biogen,
British Hydro, British Energy Efficiency Federation, Campaign for the Protection of Rural
England, Combined Heat and Power Association,
Cornwall Sustainable Energy Partnership, Energy Conservation and
Solar Centre, Friends of the Earth,
GLOBE UK All-Party Parliamentary Group, Good Energy, Green
Liberal Democrats, Green Party, Greenpeace,
Help the Aged, London Energy Managers Group, National Energy
Action, National Federation of Women’s Institutes,
National Home Improvement Council, National Housing Federation,
National Right to Fuel Campaign, PV-UK, PRASEG, RSPB, Renewable Power Association, SERA,
SHELTER, Solar Century,
Tenants & Residents Organisations of England (TAROE), Tory
Green Initiative, TRANSCO, UK HECA Forum, UNISON, WWF-UK
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