Plus Dane Housing £10 million retrofit plan announced
Plus Dane Housing in partnership with Mayor Steve Rotheram and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, are investing nearly £10m in their retrofit programme over the next two years.
Plus Dane recently received £4.5m, secured by Mayor Rotheram from the second wave of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund that has been allocated to the Liverpool City Region. They will further co-fund the retrofit programme with more than £5m as part of their efforts to meet net zero targets.
They have started to allocate the funding to projects across Merseyside, identifying the most energy inefficient properties in their portfolio and investigating a range of solutions. Previous retrofit projects undertaken by the association have included extensive cavity, external wall and roof insulation and the pilot scheme installation of a ground source heat pump at a development in Wirral.
Director of repairs at Plus Dane Housing, Barry Callow, said:
“Funding from the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund is really making a difference to what we can achieve when looking to retrofit our homes, and we are grateful to the Combined Authority for helping us to do more with our money.
“Making our homes more energy efficient is a positive thing, not just as part of our obligation to meet net zero targets in the sector, but also for our customers who should see that they don’t need to use as much energy to keep their homes warm.”
Work on the programme of improvements is likely to begin in the Autumn.
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