Issue - meetings

Appendices 1 and 2 to this report are circulated to Members under separate cover (Supplementary 2) and are also available on the Internet, in the Members’ Rooms and at public libraries.

Further to Minute 50 (28 June 2005), received a report presenting an Energy Action Area Implementation Plan for Barking Town Centre in the light of the designation by the Mayor of London of Barking Town Centre as one of four ‘Energy Action Areas’ in the capital. 

Discussed specific aspects of the Implementation Plan including the concept of supplying heat generated at Barking Power Station to the Town Centre and concurred with the view that a more feasible option would be for the energy to be used at the Barking Riverside development.

Agreed, in order to assist the Council to achieve its Community Priorities of ‘Making Barking and Dagenham Cleaner, Greener and Safer’, ‘Improving Health, Housing and Social Care’, and ‘Regenerating the Local Economy’, to:

(i)  Approve the Energy Action Area Implementation Plan for Barking Town Centre attached at Appendices 1 and 2 to the report, including the carbon reduction target and objectives for the regeneration of the area;

(ii)  The undertaking of a feasibility study into the business case for an energy services company (ESCo) to deliver sustainable energy infrastructure in the Town Centre.