Low Carbon Living Ladock & Grampound Road
The Low Carbon Living project is working to make the rural Mid-Cornwall villages of Ladock and Grampound Road a test bed for achieving sustainable living on a community-wide scale.
On 4 February 2009, the government announced that it was awarding the parish Low Carbon Communities Challenge status and £500,000 to deliver the project. The Challenge has been designed to test delivery options for achieving ambitious cuts in carbon emissions at a community level.
The funding bid and delivery of the project is being led by Community Energy Plus and follows previous work by Transition Ladock and Grampound Road and local residents to create a more sustainable community.
A combination of energy efficiency measures and renewable energy technologies will be installed across the community along with a carbon sequestration project that will involve planting nut trees to naturally absorb and hold carbon while providing a boost to local food production.
A community managed fund will be set up to ensure that income made by electricity generating aspects of the scheme remain a rolling resource that will benefit the wider community. Income from feed-in tariffs and anticipated Renewable Heat Incentives from the government will be reinvested in more carbon saving measures so that the benefits of the programme of will far exceed the initial targets of the project.
Project updates:
CLIMATE CHANGE & RESOURCE SCARCITY WORKSHOP
Saturday 3rd July 2010 – 1pm at Grampound Road Village Hall
The first in a series of workshops for this project will look to dispel some of the myths surrounding climate change. The session will explore the global and local perspective, the impacts we can expect in our lifetime, peak oil, fossil fuel reserves and food supply.
This free event is for all participants of the Low Carbon Living Ladock and Grampound Road project, although members of the wider community are welcome to attend.
NOTICE OF OPEN DAY TOURS - 10 JULY 2010
See renewable technologies in action in a range of building types across your parish at the Low Carbon Living Ladock & Grampound Road project’s first open day.
Travel between properties in a biodiesel fuelled minibus and meet some of the householders involved in the project.
Morning session 10.25am — 12.30pm
Tour to include visits to three residential and one commercial properties (two brick clad timber frame homes, a converted barn and pub) to see solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and a biomass boiler system.
Afternoon session 1.30pm — 4.00pm
Visits to three residential properties(all solid stone homes) and Grampound Road Village Hall to see solar thermal water heating systems, solar PV, a biomass boiler, internal insulation, a ground source heat pump and the community owned wind turbine.
Places on both tours are limited so early booking is recommended.
To reserve a place on either (or both) tours, please contact Laura Tregonning at Community Energy Plus on 01209 614975 ext 209 or email laura@cep.org.uk
7 June 2010 
Engineers from Natural Generation completed the installation of the community-owned wind turbine on Friday before the bad weather set in!
4 June 2010 
The wind turbine's hub and blades have been fitted ready for winching into position.
3 June 2010 
Engineers from Natural Generation Ltd get ready to connect the Nacelle (motor) to the wind turbine's tower.
18 May 2010 
Work to install the 20kW community-owned wind turbine has started with the installation of a 3-phase electricity connection to enable the export of electricity from the wind turbine.
15 May 2010 
At the monthly farmer's market local residents were given the opportunity to find out more about the project and how they can get involved.
24 March 2010 
The first PV panels of the project are installed at Trevolland Barns, Grampound Road.
25 February 2010
Local residents took part in the community tree planting day at Woodland Valley Farm to plant some of the 510 fruit and nut trees that will form an edible woodland as the carbon sequestration part of the Low Carbon Living Ladock project.
Use the links below to view funding application documents for this project.
1) Low Carbon Investment Fund application by Community Energy Plus
2) Low Carbon Investment Fund application by Community Energy Plus - further questions
3) Low Carbon Investment Fund application by Community Energy Plus - eligibility assessment
6) Low Carbon Action Plan
