Our progress on the Coastguard Flats is agonisingly slow and frustrating. We’ve been held up by paperwork and legal requirements for over a year, but we are starting to get it all settled, at last. While sorting all the documents and demands, we’ve been working on ideas for Green Energy generation on the building.

We are now running a full Community Consultation in Looe to ask residents for their opinions on the following:

- New windows. The current windows are single-glazed and aren’t original. We want to replace them with timber sash windows, much closer to the original design and double glazed for energy saving.

- Solar panels on the rear roof. We first looked into panels on the front roof and front garden, but they would be massively intrusive in the Looe townscape, so we’ve decided against. Instead, we want to put panels on the rear of the roof, completely hidden from public view, to give us some solar electricity.

- Air source heat pumps. We want to install these in the yard to the rear of the building, to provide greener heating. These would be completely invisible from the town.

Our consultation looks like this:

- Launch at the Looe Eco Event: Saturday 29^th March,10am–2pm, Millpool Centre, Looe

- Open for 4 weeks to April 26^th

- Open Day at the flats too show our ideas: Saturday 12^th April, 11.00 am – 2.00pm

- Online survey, please CLICK HERE to complete it!

- Printed survey for those who prefer it. Available at Looe Library - Please fill out our survey and hand it back in to the Looe Library by 26th April!

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