Planned investment in homes update – winter 2024
We started this financial year expecting to spend around £14m on investment in properties. We are on track to deliver all works included in our plan at the start of this year.
It is our intention to also undertake a programme of periodic [cyclical] maintenance for general upkeep of external and/or communal areas this year. This remains a priority, and we are currently reviewing our programme for delivering this work.
We’ll make sure we contact you if your home is to be included as part of this cycle. There’s no need to call us to check or worry if you think you’ve missed us. We’ll make sure we contact you. We said in our last update that we would add information to our website about investment in homes. You can find this on our webpage
Progress in making homes more energy efficient
In March 2023 we secured funding through the Government’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund [SHDF] wave 2 to invest in Settle properties over a two-year programme, enabling us to bring these homes up to an EPC band C. The original funding was intended to update 677 properties. Following ongoing cost increases, we – along with other organisations – have reviewed the number of homes it is possible to update. We have agreed with the government that we will now complete works to 550 homes through the wave 2 funding provided.
We have so far started works in 340 of these properties and fully completed works in 215. We expect to complete the works to all homes through the wave 2 funding by early summer this year.
Bringing properties to EPC C as quickly as possible remains a priority. The government have also recently opened a further round of funding for the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund wave 3. We are currently working on our own bid from this fund.
