Issue - meetings

To seek approval to enter into a contract with E.ON to provide insulation and heating improvements to Council owned and privately owned properties as part of Central Government’s ‘Community Energy Saving Programme’ as a jointly funded initiative.

(Report attached)

The Committee considered a report regarding insulation and heating improvements to a number of properties on the Winyates Estate.

Members were informed that the properties involved had been built in the 1970’s to the Wimpey No Fines method of construction, which have external walls that cannot be insulated in the traditional method as they do not have cavities to fill.

Officers reported that the properties are within an area identified by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) as being suitable for inclusion in the power suppliers and the Country’s power generators Community Energy Savings Programme (CESP) obligation, which provides finance towards improvements towards insulation and heating systems in properties that are privately owned, owned by social landlord or the Council.

E-ON, the power company, had made an offer to part fund a scheme to provide external wall insulation, loft insulation and the replacement of the original gas central heating boilers to 339 properties on Winyates Estate.

RECOMMENDED that

1)                 up to £300,000 be vired from within earmarked Housing Capital resources for the purposes indicated below; and

RESOLVED that

2)                 the improvements to the 339 properties on Winyates Estate be provided, as detailed in the report; and

3)                 Officers be authorised to enter into a contact with E-ON, on the terms indicated in the report, for the provision of heating and insulation improvements to the Winyates Estate.