Thriving Places Thriving Places

Regen has joined Innovate UK’s £60m Net Zero Living Thriving Places programme as the technical assistance partner for policy and regulation. Working alongside Innovate UK and several other project partners, Regen will be supporting 52 local authorities from across the UK and Northern Ireland to navigate the local and national policy landscapes to help achieve their net zero ambitions.

Project duration: March 2024 – December 2025

Project lead: Mollie Atherton, programme manager

Programme director: Poppy Maltby

Innovate UK’s Net Zero Living Thriving Places programme is helping local authorities address and overcome the non-technological barriers to net zero, including the policies, finance, planning, data and engagement needs that help local authorities take projects from concepts to realities to support placed-based decarbonisation.

It is supporting the 52 local authority led projects to accelerate progress to achieving their net zero goals. Local authority projects and initiatives involved in the programme include heat networks, community energy, retrofit one-stop shops and several other urban, suburban and rural net zero opportunities.

Regen has joined the programme as the technical assistance partner for policy and regulation. Our work will enable us to help local authorities navigate the policy and regulatory barriers that might stand between them and project delivery, and more widely address some of the challenges in national policy frameworks to unlock shared barriers to delivering local net zero.