We’ve secured nearly £7 million in extra grant funding to improve the energy efficiency of our homes.
We’ve been awarded an additional £6.7 million by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero as part of the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund wave 3.
We’ll also invest additional funding, bringing the total to £11.6 million, to improve an extra 702 homes across the Milton Keynes area during the second year of the programme.
The extra funding means our overall wave 3 programme will see almost £54 million invested in nearly 3,000 homes.
Fallon Warren, Head of Asset Optimisation, Sustainability and Commercial Facilities, said: “This additional money will enable us to make more than 700 extra homes warmer and easier to heat for our customers, helping to reduce their bills and carbon footprint.
“We’re delighted to have been awarded this money and are looking forward to being able to expand our programme.
“Thanks to this award, we’ll now be carrying out energy efficiency improvements to more than 1,400 homes in this financial year and just under 3,000 homes throughout the three-year programme.
“We’re looking forward to working with our customers, explaining the work we’d like to do and the benefits it’ll bring to them, so that they have warmer, easier to heat homes fit for the future.”
Our expanded wave 3 programme means we’ll be improving around seven percent of our housing stock.
It follows on from wave 2.1 of the previously named Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund project, where we improved more than 700 homes.
Marcus Keys, Chief Development and Commercial Officer, added: “Our Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund programme is an ambitious project and highlights our commitment to reducing our carbon footprint and improve the homes our customers live in.
“We’re delighted to have secured this additional funding and are excited about the impact we can make for more of our customers as a result.
“Work will begin immediately with customer engagement and retrofit assessments and we’ll then begin installing the energy efficiency improvement measures which each home needs.”