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We're now able to share the final report of our work with Carbon Co-op for the Chesshire Lehmann Fund. This research evaluates Carbon Co-op’s Community Green Deal project, examining policy implications relating to fuel poor households and the future roll out of whole house retrofit at a national level. 

Community Green Deal was a programme of whole house retrofits of owner occupied homes in Greater Manchester which started in 2012, with the first phase completed in 2014. 

The timber frame to the main building is now mostly complete, and we've started to install the recycled paper (cellulose) insulation, between the internal OSB board sheathing and the external woodfibre sheathing boards.

This is done by simply blowing the insulation into the frame, with a large reverse hoover - and making sure you stop the machine before it's full so you don't get covered in fluffy insulation!

Meanwhile, the internal works are proceeding with 'first fix' mechanical and electrical installs. 

Its' not all about hard work. Every month during the construction Squash Nutrition are hotsing a community cafe in the Grapes Garden on Windsor Street.

Come along between 12pm and 2pm on the first Friday of the month to share good food and find out more about the project and Squash's cooking and growing activities. 

We are displaying the proposals for Seaburn Seafront over the next few days. if you cant make it along at the times below you can still take a look and provide feedback on this online questionnaire. The boards displayed at the public exhibition are available to view here under downloads>

There is also a note about the surveys which have been carried out on the use of the public car parks, which can also be seen under downloads >

We hope you will be able to make it down to our exhibition at Seaburn this weekend: Friday 2nd - Saturday 3rd October

You can drop in anytime  between the times shown below and members of the team will be on hand to take you through the proposals and answer any questions.

Questionnaires will be available on the day for you to leave any thoughts, comments and feedback you may have.

Venue: 

Seaburn Leisure Centre, Whitburn Road, SR6 8AA

Date and times:

Friday 2nd October : 2pm-7pm

Back in August, we invited local businesses, residents and community groups to attend a workshop to discuss our aspirations for the Seaburn site. Feedback from the session, in the form of a short summary report, is now available to view under downloads >

Proposals for the former Vaux brewery Site, Sunderland City Centre:

The exhibition boards displayed at the public consultation event on Friday 18th and Saturday 19th September are now available to view online under downloads >

Once you have had a look, please fill out an online survey form here to provide us with your comments and feedback.

The project has been quiet for a few months as the centre's staff have been in negotiations with the council regarding their lease and we have been compiling some technical information about the building and site. In September we held a short workshop with the Saturday youth group to get some ideas from the young people how they would like the building to look. We gave them loads of different images and asked them to pick ones they thought would be cool for the new building and ones which were uncool. They then stuck them up on the wall and we discussed the general themes.