Motion under Council Rules of Procedure Number 12.  Cllr. S.M. King to move the motion set out at Appendix 1a to the Agenda.  Cllr. King has requested that EDM391 be appended to the agenda for reference (Appendix b).

DECISION

That the Motion in the name of Cllr. S.M. King, duly seconded by Cllr. F.G.H. Jackson be adopted.

Cllr. S.M. King moved the following motion which was seconded by Cllr. F.G.H. Jackson.

“Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill and the Management of Energy in Buildings Bill

That Blaby District Council

1)                 Recognises that microgeneration (that is the generation of energy by householders installing micro-units in their own homes) is a valuable new approach to engaging people as consumers and citizens in the important issues of climate change and reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

2)                 Therefore, welcomes the introduction of the Climate change and Sustainable Energy Bill and the Management of Energy in Buildings Bill into Parliament by a cross party group of MP’s on 22 June, noting that together these Bills will:

(a)               Require the Prime Minister to report annually to Parliament on the level of greenhouse gas emissions;

(b)               Require the Chancellor of the Exchequer to implement a fiscal strategy to assist with microgeneration and energy efficiency;

(c)               Require the government to set national targets for microgeneration and enable local authorities to set such targets if they deem it  appropriate;

(d)               Extend permitted development status to the installation of microgeneration subject to the specifying of safeguards relating to visual and noise effects;

(e)               Require utility companies to purchase at a reasonable rate any surplus energy generated by households via microgeneration;

(f)                 Require future revisions of Building Regulations to take into account the desirability of promoting microgeneration and of introducing an energy generating rating system in new buildings;

(g)               Enable households who generate electricity by microgeneration to have access to ‘renewable obligation certificates’, and

(h)               Establish a ‘renewable heat obligation’ requiring utility companies to support certain amount of heat from renewable sources.

and therefore

1)                 Supports the Bills and resolves to inform the Government of the Council’s view.

2)                 Urges the government to support the Bills, and

3)                 Urge Andrew Robathan MP and Stephen Dorrell MP to be present in Parliament to back these Bills when they are debated in the House of Commons on 11 November, and

4)                       Urges Andrew Robotham MP and Stephen Dorrell MP to sign House of Commons Early Day Motion No. 391 in support of these Bills

5)                 Resolves to inform the local media, Micropower Council and the Regional Planning Board of this resolution, and

6)                 Resolves also to support the Sustainable Energy Partnership’s submission to the government consultation on the draft microgeneration strategy (held under section 82 of the Energy Action 2004) which proposes that policies (b) – (g) above, should be included in final strategy.”