Deputy Leader, Lancaster City Council, & Cabinet Member for the Climate Emergency & Rural Affairs
Kevin Frea is a Labour Party councillor who was elected in 2017 to Lancaster City Council for his rural Halton-with-Aughton Ward where he lives with his wife Alison in a Passivhaus at Lancaster Cohousing. Following early retirement as a Special Needs Teacher he gained a Masters degree in Human Ecology from Strathclyde University and became involved in several community energy co-operatives. He is currently a Director of Halton Lune Hydro which is the biggest community owned hydro generator in England.
Kevin became Deputy Leader with Cabinet responsibility for the Climate Emergency, Coast & Countryside following elections in 2019 that resulted in a Labour/Green/Lib Dem leadership. He proposed a motion to join UK100 in 2018 and then one to declare a climate emergency with a deadline of 2030 in January 2019, both of which were passed unanimously.
Kevin set up Climate Emergency UK in December 2018 to support campaign groups and local authorities in their climate emergency declarations. He is also co-chair of the Climate Emergency Network, a Special Interest Group of the Local Government Association.
