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Drive to make social homes greener, warmer and more energy efficient gathers pace.

|Date: 12 August, 2024

Drive to make social homes greener, warmer and more energy efficient gathers pace.

Birmingham City Council has retrofitted around a quarter of the homes identified as part of an ambitious ...

Birmingham City Council has retrofitted around a quarter of the homes identified as part of an ambitious project to make council homes greener, warmer and more energy efficient. Around 550 homes have ...

12 August, 2024
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Affordable homes made more energy-efficient

|Date: 3 July, 2023

Affordable homes made more energy-efficient

Housing association, Homes Plus, is nearing completion on a £2.3m project to make 129 homes warmer, green ...

Housing association, Homes Plus, is nearing completion on a £2.3m project to make 129 homes warmer, greener and cheaper to run. The landlord, with more than 19,000 homes across Staffordshire and Shrop ...

3 July, 2023
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New National Retrofit Hub to propel greener homes

|Date: 6 March, 2023

New National Retrofit Hub to propel greener homes

Construction industry organisations have joined forces to create a new National Retrofit Hub to help prop ...

Construction industry organisations have joined forces to create a new National Retrofit Hub to help propel retrofit rollout in the UK’s existing homes. The initiative, launched at the Building Centre ...

6 March, 2023
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Civica | Building a bigger, greener legacy

|Date: 22 June, 2022

Civica | Building a bigger, greener legacy

Civica’s latest survey of housing providers and residents shows a clear need for better value, safer and ...

Civica’s latest survey of housing providers and residents shows a clear need for better value, safer and sustainable housing, explains Michelle Tyler, Managing Director, Housing at Civica. The future ...

22 June, 2022
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Lloyds Banking Group delivers £9bn to social housing sector in just three years

|Date: 9 March, 2021

Lloyds Banking Group delivers £9bn to social housing sector in just three years

Since 2018, Lloyds Banking Group has provided £9bn of funding to the UK’s social housing sector, outstrip ...

Since 2018, Lloyds Banking Group has provided £9bn of funding to the UK’s social housing sector, outstripping its original £2.25bn funding commitment by £6.75bn over this period due to strong sector d ...

9 March, 2021
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RetrofitWorks endorses National Retrofit Strategy

|Date: 16 February, 2021

RetrofitWorks endorses National Retrofit Strategy

RetrofitWorks, the not-for-profit co-operative that offers an easily adopted model for improving the UK’s ...

RetrofitWorks, the not-for-profit co-operative that offers an easily adopted model for improving the UK’s housing stock through greener repairs, maintenance and improvements (RMI), has been campaignin ...

16 February, 2021
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Over half of all local authorities already enforcing higher building standards

|Date: 8 October, 2019

Over half of all local authorities already enforcing higher building standards

New research by the Solar trade Association (STA) reveals Scottish and English councils in race to the to ...

New research by the Solar trade Association (STA) reveals Scottish and English councils in race to the top on new homes policy The STA has published new research on local authority building standards, ...

8 October, 2019
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Project Etopia builds landmark demonstration home at the BRE

|Date: 5 September, 2019

Project Etopia builds landmark demonstration home at the BRE

Modular homes provider Project Etopia has begun building a landmark demonstration home at the Building Re ...

Modular homes provider Project Etopia has begun building a landmark demonstration home at the Building Research Establishment (BRE) with the aim of being the first to meet a new UK offsite constructio ...

5 September, 2019
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