Plans lodged for Wirral Waters heat network
Ener-Vate have submitted a planning application to Wirral Council for the installation of a District Heat Network (DHN) at Wirral Waters.
The application is a significant milestone in the regeneration of Wirral Waters, the UK’s largest regeneration project, and wider neighbourhoods as it will help to deliver the essential infrastructure for a low carbon heat source at forthcoming developments, including Vittoria Studios, West Float and the wider regeneration of the area.
The reserved matters application includes an energy centre, which utilises water source heat pumps as the main heat source, and associated pipe network.
The proposed energy network is in line with Wirral’s Development Plan and the Wirral Local Plan and is included in the Wirral Waters Sustainability Action Plan. It has also secured funding from the Government’s Green Heat Network Fund.
James Hadfield, Strategic Waters Manager at Ener-Vate, said, “Sustainability and low carbon initiatives have always been at the heart of the regeneration of Wirral Waters, and this planning application aims to realise those ambitions through the introduction of a low carbon heating source which will provide connectivity to both existing and future occupiers.”
