Decision details

(Joint report of Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health and Cabinet Member for Housing)

The report gave details of a proposal that the Council participate in a Collective Energy Switching scheme in partnership with four other Kent authorities to enable local residents to have the opportunity to access cheaper energy tariffs.  It was noted that any new collaboration would be governed by a carefully constructed Memorandum of Understanding/Participation Agreement between the local authority partners.

The Cabinet resolved that:

1)               the Council proceed to work collaboratively with ‘Energy Deal’ authorities on a winter campaign from December 2014 using the Local Government Association framework with a February 2015 reverse auction, a new Memorandum of Understanding/Participation Agreement being developed to bring Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council into the existing partnership; and

2)               authority be delegated to the Chief Housing Officer, in consultation with the Principal Solicitor and the Cabinet Member for Housing, to approve the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding/Participation Agreement and to enter into the Agreement.