A £3.6million scheme to improve the energy efficiency of hundreds of Wiltshire homes by 2025 is under way.
Wiltshire Council say they have now received the Government funds and 210 homes will receive major energy efficiency improvements by March 2025. The process is called retrofitting and will be used to support the council’s ambition for the county to be carbon neutral by 2030.
A whole house retrofit takes each house and considers the fabric, the heating and hot water requirements, ventilation, and the people living in the property, to establish the correct measures to implement for that property.
In 2021, the council was successful in securing almost £550,000, which was used to improve 90 of its least energy efficient council homes.
This additional funding will now allow the council to support retrofit for owner occupied and privately rented homes that are not connected to mains gas and are energy performance certificate band D-G subject to household income levels.
Some of the measures deployed to retrofit a property include energy efficiency measures such as wall, loft and underfloor insulation, low-carbon heating technologies such as heat pumps and smart measures such as smart heating controls.
Wiltshire Council cabinet member for environment and climate change Nick Holder said, “Successfully securing this funding demonstrates the scope of our ambitions for the county. We are always looking for opportunities to decrease carbon emissions and this funding will help us to build on our ongoing work to make Wiltshire homes as energy efficient as possible, which during the current cost-of-living crisis is more important than ever.
“Our aim is for Wiltshire to be a place where we are on the path to carbon neutral and to take responsibility for the environment. As a council we continue to lead from the front, and hopefully inspire others to take action.”
