To review current multi storey building status within the Newcastle City “Pool”, including technical, physical building and utilities data, previous or current or future amendments/interactions with, presence/absence of applicable residents associations.

Community Based Engagement: Initial and on-going community dialogue, Interaction which will mediate –articulated existing demand profiles, social appraisal of options and rationale based on articulated demand/ baseline utilities/inarticulated demand.

Review of current funding landscape and regulatory environment - including opportunities and barriers.

Analysis of baseline pre-collected data within 'pool' (e.g. utilities and buildings related ). How do these relate to wider scenario in the UK? How does this direct use?

Provide a report and business case on combined social technical and economic analysis - including initiatives, non-energy values, built environment, re-bundling of value chains.

Provide recommendations for future projects, early stage technologies and related research.

Benefits

Preliminary decision support /tree tool informing industry partners on the current options available.

Development of a potential strategy for further investigation areas and benefits of these investigations.

An Initial combined social technical and economic analysis - including initiatives, non-energy values, built environment, re-bundling of value chains.

Initial business case development describing findings, results and informing future and related projects.

It is anticipated that together this will provide direct further investigation into the approaches that may be suitable within differing sites, scales, and provide sufficient information to either identification of appropriate pre-existing funding streams to implement change, or evidence to put to central government and industry regulators to request change to funding streams (DECC, Ofgem, Ofwat).