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12/08/2021
City Of York Council Bids For Over £4m To Extend Energy Efficiency Measures
City of York Council has bid for over £4 million to extend energy efficiency measures for up to a further 380 fuel-poor homes in the region.
The Executive Member for Housing granted approval for a funding bid of £4.6m to be submitted by the council, as the lead authority in a regional consortium, for £4.6m to the government's Sustainable Warmth Competition. If successful the bid will fund a wide range of insulation measures and renewable energy measures including external wall and underfloor insulation.
The council has already secured over £2.6m of Government funding for energy efficiency works. The funding provides grants to insulate rooms in roofs, improve loft and cavity wall insulation, as well as to install solar panels. Some of the funds will be used to install air source heat pumps and external wall insulation in partnership with two local housing associations. The funding will improve more than 291 homes in the region including insulation measures and solar panels for 50 council homes.
The first phase of the council's £2m investment to improve the energy efficiency of up to 60 council homes is progressing well. This includes taking up opportunities to maximise the council’s own funding by matching it with Government funds. To deliver the measures, we've recruited new staff to grow its expertise. It's also developing a city-wide energy efficiency retrofit strategy which will be published later this year.
Cllr Denise Craghill, Executive Member for Housing and Safer Neighbourhoods, said: "This paper demonstrates that the council is getting on with tackling our challenges locally, whilst also lobbying Government for more consistent and longer-term funding, and working closely with other local organisations to develop a strategy for the whole city.
"This is a very new area of activity nationally with all councils facing challenges around developing new skills and more capacity in local building firms, as well more support and advice for residents and I am confident we are making good progress. I really want to commend officers for the extra funding that they have successfully brought in to the city so far and the lead that we are taking at a regional level.
"I'm very happy to support the bid made to the Sustainable Warmth Competition – and hopefully in early autumn we will be in a good position to put in another very convincing bid to the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund."
The Executive Member for Housing granted approval for a funding bid of £4.6m to be submitted by the council, as the lead authority in a regional consortium, for £4.6m to the government's Sustainable Warmth Competition. If successful the bid will fund a wide range of insulation measures and renewable energy measures including external wall and underfloor insulation.
The council has already secured over £2.6m of Government funding for energy efficiency works. The funding provides grants to insulate rooms in roofs, improve loft and cavity wall insulation, as well as to install solar panels. Some of the funds will be used to install air source heat pumps and external wall insulation in partnership with two local housing associations. The funding will improve more than 291 homes in the region including insulation measures and solar panels for 50 council homes.
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The first phase of the council's £2m investment to improve the energy efficiency of up to 60 council homes is progressing well. This includes taking up opportunities to maximise the council’s own funding by matching it with Government funds. To deliver the measures, we've recruited new staff to grow its expertise. It's also developing a city-wide energy efficiency retrofit strategy which will be published later this year.
Cllr Denise Craghill, Executive Member for Housing and Safer Neighbourhoods, said: "This paper demonstrates that the council is getting on with tackling our challenges locally, whilst also lobbying Government for more consistent and longer-term funding, and working closely with other local organisations to develop a strategy for the whole city.
"This is a very new area of activity nationally with all councils facing challenges around developing new skills and more capacity in local building firms, as well more support and advice for residents and I am confident we are making good progress. I really want to commend officers for the extra funding that they have successfully brought in to the city so far and the lead that we are taking at a regional level.
"I'm very happy to support the bid made to the Sustainable Warmth Competition – and hopefully in early autumn we will be in a good position to put in another very convincing bid to the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund."
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