City of Lincoln Council’s application for £2.7 million for the Sustainable Warmth Fund has been successful.
The funding, which will enable retrofit works to be undertaken on a further 300 homes as part of the Green Homes Grant Local Authority Delivery (LAD) funded scheme, was approved by Executive in October 2021.
The Sustainable Warmth Competition is investing over £430 million across 57 projects and will help local authorities to upgrade energy inefficient homes of low-income households in England. The projects will start in early 2022 and complete by March 2023.
In October 2020, the government launched £2 billion of support through the Green Homes Grant (GHG). The scheme consisted of two grant programmes, the GHG Voucher scheme open to all householders to improve the energy efficiency of their homes and the GHG Local Authority Delivery scheme (LAD).
The LAD scheme aims to support low-income households living in the least energy efficient homes (those rated Band D, E, F or G.)
Eligible low-income households must have a combined household annual income of no more than £30,000 gross, before housing costs.
In June 2021 City of Lincoln Council’s Executive approved acceptance of the £479,600 capital funding, and a contract is now in place with E.ON to retrofit around 40 energy inefficient homes in Lincoln where households have been identified to be living in fuel poverty.
This scheme is due for completion in March 2022.
In August 2021 the council was invited by BEIS to submit a further funding application for the Sustainable Warmth Fund (LAD 2) for funding to extend the scheme until March 2023.
The council submitted an expression of interest for £2.7 million funding to enable retrofit works to be undertaken on a further 300 homes, which has been successful.
The scheme will now be ready to launch immediately following the completion of LAD 1 in April 2022 and will be completed by 31 March 2023.
Cllr Bob Bushell, Portfolio Holder for Addressing the Challenges of Climate Change at City of Lincoln Council said: “This scheme will help towards reducing the greenhouse gas emissions from the domestic sector in Lincoln and contribute towards our net zero carbon target by 2030.
“Many households in Lincoln will be struggling with the cost of heating and this scheme will really help improve the insulation of homes and reduce heating costs.
“In doing so, this will help to improve the quality of homes and reduce fuel poverty in Lincoln.
“I look forward to seeing the launch of this scheme in April 2022.”
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