A couple of weeks ago the news was out that Stroud District Council has awarded £34,840 towards the ambitious £71,000 village hall revamp.Photo: Wap last May with village hall in background
Hopefully a further £19,000 will come from the Low Carbon Buildings Fund - more grants also submitted - all this will go towards double glazing, upgrading of loft insulation, installation of photovoltaic cells on the roof and a ground source heat pump to power a modern central heating system by extracting heat from the earth one metre below the playing field.
The scheme will eliminate £1,200 heating costs a year - indeed with forecast energy prices it will be much more of a saving. Plus it will produce £500 pa through selling the excess electricity back to the grid - again this could be more in future.
The hall will be a showcase for low carbon technologies - the two schemes will save 7,500kWh of commercially generated electricity per year. Huge congrats to the committee who have worked so hard on this - a huge achievement.
The hall will hopefully ready in September?? This could possibly tie in with the plans I am working on with Transition Stroud to open homes and other buildings to the public - see my blog of 7th Jan this year.
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