2023 - March, Our news

PA Housing has been successful in achieving a successful bid from the government to tackle decarbonisation 

The Department for Energy Security & Net Zero has awarded PA Housing £1,200,00 after a successful bid from the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund's second wave to improve the energy performance of 100 homes for its customers.

The funding will be used to upgrade 100 houses in the inner-city area of Leicester to the minimum Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) standard of Band C.

“We’re delighted our SHDF bid was successful, and we can get to work improving the comfort, health and wellbeing of our customers in some of the lowest energy-performing homes in Leicester. “The SHDF grant forms part of a larger figure of £3.4 million which we have set aside for the improvement of our homes, in what is our first retrofit programme.”

Donna Brace, Head of Asset Management at PA Housing,

The SHDF requirements state recipients of the grant must use the money to improve the energy efficiency of existing social housing within two years.

Our retrofitting programme will see various measures installed including external wall insulation, internal wall insulation, loft insulation and smart heating controls. These will help to bring the properties to an EPC band C level by 2030.”

Donna Brace, Head of Asset Management at PA Housing