Dorset Low Carbon Neighbourhoods

Aims to tackle the 22% of Dorset’s carbon emissions which come from people’s homes. It involves various work strands.

● Dorset Greener Homes allows visitors to view homes where the owners have made significant green changes to their homes and lifestyles, to demonstrate what can be achieved and to give viewers an idea of what it is like to live with these changes. We now also offer year round open homes - see the project page for more detail.

● Promote Rooftop solar projects involving negotiating a discounted price with a favoured local installer. We will use our network of members to publicise meetings where the installations can be explained, and we monitor the uptake of contracts signed. We are aiming to introduce 3 new projects in 2025. View planned and archived events here.

● Working with community energy projects, such as those proposed in Loders and Martinstown including a rapid increase in solar installations, heat pumps and improved insulation on domestic properties. Geothermal and inshore wind power generation will also be looked at in some of these projects.