Working in partnership with Milton Keynes City Council and having secured a £2.8m grant under the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave 1, we delivered energy efficiency measures to 240 homes across the council’s housing stock between April 2022 and March 2024.
Totalling £10m in project spend, we successfully created warmer, healthier homes by retrofitting external wall and cavity insulation, roofing and loft insulation, as well as fitting new windows, doors and ventilation to properties across the council’s housing stock.
Funding was awarded by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), which supports collaboration across the housing sector to work towards achieving carbon neutral homes – a major driver in the Government’s “Net Zero” carbon reduction plans. Our decarbonisation retrofit service used data analysis and surveys to improve the council’s properties to EPC band C.
We used a fabric first approach throughout the project which has improved space heating demand by 38% and carbon emissions by 31%, which in turn reduced tenant energy costs by around 28%.
- SHDF funding £2.8m
- Region Milton Keynes
- Project duration April 2022–March 2024
- Homes retrofitted with energy efficiency measures 240
- Reduction in carbon emissions 31%
- Reduction in tenant energy costs 28%
The programme forms part of the longstanding partnership we hold with the council, where we deliver asset management services to Milton Keynes’ 11,000 properties, including 1,600 leaseholders. The wider contract includes management of housing stock typically comprising traditional and non‑traditional built housing from the 1960s and 1970s.
Key Net Zero headlines
• Established a six-stage approach to developing and delivering high quality, end-to-end domestic retrofit programmes. Focusing on customer satisfaction, the programmes are also PAS 2035 and funding compliant
• Successfully supported clients and partners to secure over £53m in SHDF funding, installing energy efficiency measures to more than 6,000 homes
