BHIOP Annual General Meeting
04/09/2012 at 3:29 pm | Posted in uncategorised | Leave a commentTags: Balsall Heath
You are invited to the Balsall Heath Is Our Planet
Annual General Meeting on Tuesday 11th September 2012
Please let us know if you can attend to help renew the organisation and hear about progress on our projects and future plans. Do bring a friend, guest or partner if you like. We would like an idea of numbers for catering..
6.00 Start – at the Old Print Works, Moseley Road, Balsall Heath (opposite the swimming baths, parking in Edward Road, walk through the courtyard to red Reception door)
Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be available
6.20 Annual General Meeting business of BHIOP (a registered company and registered charity)
- Election of trustees
- Adoption of annual report and accounts 2010-11
6.45 Report on project progress, and slide show, with discussion of future plans
Finish by 8.00
RSVP to BHIOP[at]jericho.org.uk
House with no Fuel Bills
30/08/2012 at 11:12 am | Posted in Home Energy saving, Water | Leave a commentTags: Balsall Heath
There will be a free open day at the Zero Carbon House, designed by Balsall Heath architect John Christophers on Saturday 8th September.
This house stores its own heat and requires no outside fuel supply. It makes its own water, electricity and hot water. Everyone should have a look. One day all houses may be like this. There will be a chance to hear how the house has performed in two cold winters, and to talk about how to make your own house more energy efficient.
Details are at the superhome site
All are welcome. See you there
One bag of rubbish in 2012
06/08/2012 at 12:36 pm | Posted in Recycling | Leave a commentTags: Balsall Heath
I have promised to fill just one black bag with rubbish this year. By composting everything I can at home and recycling everything I can, I have just half a bag of squashed plastic wrappings half way through the year. These are being rammed into plastic bottles to make hard ‘bricks’.
The press have picked up on this, and even got the point that we might organise every neighbourhood in this city of a million people to do it. What would that look like ? Ideas please to John Newson bhiop[at]jericho.org.uk
More details in Birmingham Mail
Bee Activity Day 28 July
24/07/2012 at 4:39 pm | Posted in Gardens | Leave a commentTags: Balsall Heath
Once in a lifetime chance to re-design Balsall Heath
16/07/2012 at 1:53 pm | Posted in Community energy | Leave a commentTags: Balsall Heath
Our neighbourhood is really lucky to be a front runner nationally for drawing up its own Neighbourhood Plan. Not for 100 years has there been such a chance to make the area fit for the future. Public consultation is going on now.
The basic approach from the Neighbourhood Forum and the residents is to make the area more attractive for pedestrians and cyclists, for visitors and local people and for sustainable businesses. The plans have been drawn by Joe Holyoak , a local planner and urban designer.
They look great to me.
A website gives all the detail and you can comment on line.
or see the display at Balsall Heath City Farm, Clifton Road on 16th to 21st July – then on to Balsall Heath Library next to the swimming baths – opening hours
Another chance to see an insulated house
12/07/2012 at 3:33 pm | Posted in Home Energy saving | Leave a commentFor those who missed the insulated house in Kings Heath, there is a similar project in Northfield
Energy Makeover Open Day
Saturday 14th July, 10am – 12pm
As part of its Home Energy Makeover Scheme, Northfield Ecocentre is running an open day on a property that has had work done. . This property has had external solid wall insulation, but only on the back as it’s a mid terrace.
More details and booking at Northfield Ecocentre website
Insulate your walls to save gas
26/06/2012 at 3:30 pm | Posted in Home Energy saving | Leave a commentIt was great to meet everyone at the recent open house in Grange Road, Kings Heath, held to show off its internal and externally insulated walls. Many thanks to Martyn and Emma for having us – and for the cake!
The house already feels much warmer and quieter. One day all terraced houses will look like this… More lovely picture taken by Phil beardmore phil’s pictures
Energy Saving Open Day on Sunday 24 June
19/06/2012 at 9:24 am | Posted in Home Energy saving | Leave a commentYour chance to look around a typical, two-bedroom terraced house on which several thousand pounds worth insulation measures have been installed at 142 Grange Road, in Kings Heath.
- Internal solid wall insulation to the front
- External solid wall insulation to the rear
- Replacement timber double glazed windows
There will be an opportunity to talk to the home-owners and the builder, Local social enterprise Jericho Construction about the work that was done, including choice of materials, how the period Victorian features of the house were preserved, time-scale, and cost, etc.
You will need to book the time you would like to take the tour as we are only able to accommodate up to 10 people at a time, in order to ensure everyone has an opportunity to ask questions and to examine the detail of the work done.
We will be showing people round at the following times so let us know which time you would like to come : 11.00 am, 12 noon, 2.00 pm, 3.00 pm, or 4.00 pm
To register your interest, please reply to Angela Cooper transition kings heath transitionkh@gmail.com
Minister visits Balsall Heath
06/06/2012 at 2:58 pm | Posted in Community energy | Leave a commentTags: Balsall Heath
Today, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Davey, visited to learn about the work of “Balsall Heath Is Our Planet”‘. His department has funded our LEAF programme of 12 energy savings projects, working with Sustainable Moseley and Kings Heath Transition Initiative. We used the money; 1) to identify opportunities for generating renewable energy, 2) to talk to residents about making their homes more energy efficient through the upcoming ‘Green Deal’.
Mr Davey went to a terraced house in Kings Heath that Jericho Foundation have insulated to a high standard. The owners tell us it has held onto the heat really well in the recent cool snap, when others have had to put on the central heating. Mr Davey was very positive about all the social and environmental benefits of the work we have been doing. Great to be able to give a government minister some contact with energy saving efforts at the level of a neighbourhood.
Number of cyclists is increasing
15/05/2012 at 3:03 pm | Posted in Cycling | Leave a commentTags: Balsall Heath
If you thought there seem to be more cyclists in Birmingham these days – there are. Good weather helps, but figures compiled by the City Council shows a 78% rise since 2003, with an 11% per year rise in the last 3 years. Pushbikes the Birmingham Cycling campaign quote this in their latest newsletter www.pushbikes.org.uk saying that another doubling could take place by 2020 on this trend.
If you want to join in on safer routes then the Cycling and Walking Map of Birmingham is very useful http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cycling-map
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