Energy action campaign

• Tuesday, 24 February 2009
• Kathleen Retourne
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Park Home & Holiday Caravan Magazine have drawn up a draft letter for you to send to the Energy Minister and/or your local MP to ensure you get the rights you deserve.

Read more about our energy action campaign.

DRAFT LETTER
 
Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP
Email: ps.ed.miliband@decc.gsi.gov.uk
Mail:
Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP
Minister for Energy and Climate Change
3-8 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2HH

Your name and address
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Dear Minister
 
I am writing to you as Minister for Energy and Climate Change to urge you to take action to ensure that park home residents get a fair share of grants available under energy efficiency and fuel poverty programmes.
 
At present park home residents are either not eligible for help from the main programmes because they are not classified as dwellings or the range of measures available such as gas central heating, cavity wall and loft insulation are not suitable for use in our homes.

There are cost-effective measures available to help people in park homes. Trials by National Energy Action have shown that light weight insulation or low carbon technologies can reduce heating bills by up to 60% and can be installed at the same cost as installing oil based central heating.
 
The introduction of an £4,000 ‘off-gas solutions grant’ within Warm Front would make sense from both a fuel poverty and climate change perspective. At present a £4,000 grant is available to households without access to the gas network but only when they install oil based central heating. It is illogical to install this high carbon, high cost fuel when there are cheaper greener low carbon technologies available.
 
It is particularly important that park home residents are helped because people living in park homes often have fixed, low incomes and are often elderly and therefore more susceptible to the cold. Also, park home residents tend to rely on high carbon fuels such as LPG, oil and coal, so it is particularly important that we reduce our carbon emissions to help tackle climate change.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
 
 
Yours sincerely

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