HOUSING ASSOCIATION RETROFIT PROGRAMME PASSES HALFWAY STAGE...

The local housing association is over halfway through a £5.3 million programme of retrofitting older North Yorkshire properties with more efficient and clean energy technology.

The installation of renewable energy technology, such as solar panels and air source heat pumps, form part of the housing retrofit programme. Upon the programme’s completion in the Spring of 2025, 400 properties across North Yorkshire will have dramatically improved their energy efficiencies.

This includes homes in towns such as Easingwold, Bedale, Northallerton and Ripon, as well as smaller rural communities including Great Broughton, Osmotherley and Helperby.

Work has already been completed on 252 properties, which includes:

• Solar panels on 252 homes

• Air source heat pumps in 22 homes

• Loft insulation in 98 homes

• Underfloor insulation in 10 homes

• Smart air bricks in 10 homes.

Ken Westerman of Helperby is one of the many who have had their homes worked on.

His house, originally built in the 1960s, has had solar panels fitted and an air source heat pump installed, taking the property from an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of D to a B.





Read more about the housing association’s energy efficiency initiative in a copy of the paper from your nearest stockist.

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