Agenda item

The Committee had before it a report by the Executive Director Families and Communities which  presented the draft Aberdeen City Council Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy (LHEES) for approval.

The report recommended:-

that the Committee –

(a)      approve Aberdeen City Council’s Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy and associated Delivery Plan as detailed in Appendices 1 and 2 of the report; and

(b)      instruct the Chief Officer - Corporate Landlord to upload Aberdeen City

Council’s Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy and Delivery Plan onto Aberdeen City Council’s website.

During discussion of the report, there was mention of NHS Grampian, and the Convener stated for reasons of transparency that he was a member of NHS Grampian Board but did not consider that this required to be a declaration of interest and that he would be participating in the remainder of the item.

The Convener, seconded by Councillor van Sweeden, moved the recommendations as set out in the report.

Councillor Tissera, seconded by Councillor Ali, moved as an amendment:-

That the Committee:-

(a)      agrees not to Approve Aberdeen City Council’s Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy and associated Delivery Plan as detailed in Appendices 1 and 2; and

(b)      instructs the Chief Officer - Corporate Landlord to update Appendix 2 LHEES delivery plan with details of progress made up to 2024 which is absent from the October 2024 Report and report back to this Committee with an updated Strategy and Delivery Plan for consideration and approval.

On a division, there voted:- for the motion (5) – the Convener; and Councillors Henrickson, Hutchison, McLellan and van Sweeden; for the amendment (4) – Councillors Ali, Brooks, Nicoll and Tissera.

The Committee resolved:-

(i)       to request that officers provide hyperlinks for the background papers listed in the cover report to Members outwith the meeting;

(ii)       to note that the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning would liaise with the Chief Officer – Commercial and Procurement Services to provide information to Members outwith the meeting on progress made with discussions on connecting businesses to heat networks;

(iii)      to note that the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning would ask officers to provide information to Members outwith the meeting on the estimated cost for implementing the delivery plan over year 1, year 5, year 10 and year 20;

(iv)      in relation to page 95 of the report, to request that officers provide information to Members outwith the meeting on Energy Company Obligation Programmes;

(v)      to note that the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning would liaise with the Energy Team in relation to any data available for uninsulated property not in Council stock, and circulate this to Members if available;

(vi)      to note that the image on page 136 of the report was labelled incorrectly as Queens Links and that officers would rectify this;

(vii)     in relation to work being undertaken by the Chief Officer – Corporate Landlord in respect of taking the Council’s estate to the minimum standard and the timeline for this work to come before Members, to note that the Chief Officer – Strategic Place Planning would ask that the Chief Officer – Corporate Landlord provide detail to Members outwith the meeting;

(viii)    in relation to page 145 of the report (data on the level of uninsulated walls in each data zone), to request that officers provide information to Members outwith the meeting on why Midstocket was listed twice; and

(ix)      to adopt the motion.