Delivering Warmer and Healthier Homes on the Road to Net Zero – How Retrofit Delivery Plans can turn Strategy into Delivery
The UK has some of the least energy efficient homes in Europe. In Scotland, leaky homes and predominantly fossil-fuel based home heating means 13% of the country’s carbon emissions come from homes. This – alongside high energy costs – has left 34% of people in Scotland in fuel poverty.
Decarbonising homes is therefore key to tackling both the climate emergency and fuel poverty.
Scotland has ambitious statutory targets: achieving net zero by 2045 and eradicating fuel poverty as far as reasonably possible by 2040.
Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategies (LHEES) are designed to deliver these targets, providing each local authority in Scotland a framework to plan for decarbonised heating and improved energy efficiency.
Equally, social housing has been a focus of Scottish Government efforts to address both greenhouse gas emissions and fuel poverty.
The challenge now is moving from ambition and strategy to actionable plans and on-the ground delivery.
In this whitepaper, Ian Cochran, our Head of Consultancy, and Sophie Burgess, a Senior Consultant, highlight how Changeworks, one of Scotland’s leading social enterprises, is working with local authorities and housing associations to use end-to-end retrofit planning to achieve the ambitions of LHEES.
How Retrofit Delivery Plans can turn Strategy into Delivery
Our whitepaper highlights how we are working with local authorities and housing associations across Scotland to use end-to-end retrofit planning to achieve the ambitions of Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategies.
