Council approves £7m project for four key city centre buildings

THE WORKS WILL SAVE THE COUNCIL AROUND £200,000 A YEAR ON ENERGY BILLS

- By ANDREW SPENCE

HULL City Council's cabinet have approved plans to progress with the decarbonisation of four key city centre buildings. The work, which will help the council achieve its commitment to become carbon neutral by 2030, will include the four buildings being connected to the upcoming Hull District Heat Network.

At a meeting held on November 24, members of the council's cabinet accepted £4.94m of Government funding and agreed to allocate £1.78m of match funding from existing council budgets, to support the delivery of the buildings' decarbonisation. The Government funding comes in the form of Salix 4 funding which is designed to decarbonise public sector buildings across England.