Submitting.
Coun Neil Walshaw says billions of pounds will be needed to make Leeds homes carbon zero.
“But to retrofit the housing stock of Leeds, it would cost around six-to-eight billion pounds to make housing effectively carbon neutral.
“At this time, I don’t think anyone in the country is quite prepared for the scale of this and what it needs. We need to communicate the sheer nature of change the government is going to have to face to let us be dynamic in the face of this.”
As a measure of comparison, Leeds City Council’s entire revenue budget for the coming year is less than £500m – a sixteenth of the total money that Coun Walshaw believed would be needed.