Your home

Making your home energy efficient

Advice is available to assist people to insulate their homes and be generally more energy-efficient. Home visits are also available to help people understand their energy bills and set heating controls most efficiently.

Home repairs and maintenance

We give grants to home-owners who receive income-related benefits to carry out essential home repairs.

Empty Homes Strategy and empty property loans

We have recently developed an Empty Homes Strategy to deal with the problem of empty properties. We also provide loans to bring empty properties back into occupational use, particularly in town-centre locations, including flats over shops.

Radon

Radon is a naturally-occurring radioactive gas. It is produced by the decay of small amounts of uranium in rocks deep underground. It can migrate through the soil and enter buildings through minute cracks in the structure.

"Hard to Treat" (Home Insulation Scheme)

In the UK there are over 10 million homes where the most cost effective energy efficiency measures (e.g. cavity and loft insulation) are unsuitable. These include: older homes with solid walls; homes with no loft space; homes without a connection to a low cost fuel such as oil or gas; and homes where, for technical or practical reasons, simpler energy efficiency measures cannot be fitted.

Your home may be one of these.