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First Choice Homes Oldham (FCHO) and partners have launched a £10 million ECO scheme in central Oldham, with a further £11 million of investment in properties and the environment. The B Green project is a partnership between FCHO, Oldham Council, British Gas, Forrest and Savills, to install energy efficiency improvements for approximately 2,400 residents in Oldham. Cath Green, chief executive, FCHO; Michele Carr, assistant executive director, neighbourhoods, housing and planning, Oldham Council; Mark Parker, operations…

DECC consults on closing Renewables Obligation to new 5MW+ solar applications from next April Unjustified bias against solar and decentralised energy STA rejects budget arguments: solar only accounts for 5% of RO budget  DECC has today proposed closing the Renewables Obligation (RO) to 5MW+ solar farm applications from April 2015.This proposal follows recent assurances in the Commons from Energy Minister Michael Fallon that no further changes to the RO were planned. For all solar over…

Portakabin, the UK’s leading modular building specialist, has delivered an interim sixth form centre in just six weeks at a school in Cheshire after structural defects to an existing building meant alternative accommodation was urgently required. Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School needed high quality facilities to be fitted out over the school holidays and ready to use for 220 students by the start of the new term. The sixth form centre had to be completed in…