Bioregional awarded grant to lead triple-win social housing retrofit study

Sustainability charity Bioregional has been awarded a grant by the Energy Redress fund to develop a model for social landlords to install low-carbon, deep retrofitting measures in hard-to-treat homes at scale, simply and affordably.

Roll-out of the model will result in lower bills and better-quality housing for tenants, cutting the environmental impact of poor energy-performing social housing and providing a sustainable income stream for landlords in return for their investment - a triple-win for all.

Sue Riddlestone, Bioregional CEO said: “We know that for Registered Social Landlords the requirement to meet net zero carbon for their stock is a headache, with a set of linked challenges. How to pay for it? What technical approaches to take? How to upskill the workforce and engage with residents? That’s why we are delighted that the Energy Redress fund is supporting us to problem-solve through all this, and make that information available to all Registered Social Landlords.”  

The toolkit developed will be available to all Registered Social Landlords and aims to provide a powerful incentive for mass whole-home retrofitting across the UK.

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Also, check out Bioregional’s Head of Sustainable Places, Ronan Leyden, discussing the urgency of finding a replicable model for carbon and cost savings for social landlords at unlock net zero