We are making our tenants’ homes warmer

This year so far, we’ve completed work on more than 100 homes to make them warmer and more affordable to run for our tenants. This is a brilliant start to our goal of upgrading 750 of our tenants’ homes to improve their energy ratings over the next three years.

We’ve made some changes to our team this year and now have more people working to help us fight fuel poverty in Gloucestershire.

This includes our new Customer Liaison Officer, Sally, who is there for our tenants to answer questions about the work in their homes and support them though the process.

We have three projects, each using different funding to bring homes up to an energy rating of EPC C. We’ll include a home in a project based on what energy rating it has to start with and what type of work can be done to improve this.

Our recent £4.56m from the government’s Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund will help us upgrade hundreds of homes with solar panels and improved insulation and ventilation over the next few years. We are surveying our homes at the moment to see which ones we can include in this project.

We are also using funding from the government’s ECO4 scheme to install new air source heat pumps alongside other changes in some of our lowest rated homes. We will upgrade 148 homes using this funding this year and have already completed 58!

Some of our homes have good heating systems already but need some extra upgrades to bring them up to EPC C and help reduce energy bills for our tenants. We’ve nearly finished a project to upgrade 48 homes in Newent and Sling using our own funding. We will start work on more homes in this project next year.

We’ll keep you updated as we move forward with these projects as part of our commitment to invest in improving our homes!