Hackbridge low carbon zone (Sutton)

The Hackbridge low carbon zone is an area of 500 homes and five community buildings set within Sutton’s wider Hackbridge Project – a district that they envisage as becoming the UK’s first ‘sustainable suburb’.  The zone covers an area where there is no obvious geographic community identity and the borough has been working hard with a range of local partners to engage residents and to offer a range of energy saving services.

Flexibility in terms of the project’s design and delivery has been key its success.  The partners have used alternative marketing routes beyond the zone’s geographic boundaries - via ‘communities of interest’ such as schools and health services – alongside visible retrofit projects to the community buildings in the zone. 

These projects are accompanied by detailed work on energy management/and energy use advise with the building managers and users. These projects will successfully deliver a range of energy saving measures between now and September 2012. We continue to work closely with the borough to redesign existing projects and look at alternative carbon saving options.