Decision Session - Executive Member for Housing and Safer Neighbourhoods
Set out below is a summary of the decisions taken at the meeting of the Decision Session Executive Member for Housing and Safer Neighbourhoods held on Thursday, 18 March 2021. The wording used does not necessarily reflect the actual wording that will appear in the minutes.
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4. Update on the Housing Energy Retrofit Programme
Resolved:
i) That the successful application to BEIS for investment under their Local Authority Delivery 1B scheme, be noted and the grant allocation approach outlined in the report, be supported.
ii) That the submission of a grant application under the Local Authority Delivery 2 scheme be supported and that the utilisation of this funding to support, 1) Council Housing Energy Retrofit Programme Phase 1 works as approved by Executive in December 2020; 2) an expansion of room in the roof and other insulation works being delivered as part of LAD1B project; and 3) to install solar PV on council homes utilising some of the remaining funds within the £1m allocated budget, alongside LAD2 funding, be approved. That delegated authority to the Executive Member of Housing and Safer Neighbourhoods to approve any reallocation of this grant funding in line with the capacity of the supply chain and the grant funding terms, be agreed.
iii) That the scope of the retrofit strategy be approved and the timescales and resource implications for its completion be noted.
Reason: To improve the energy performance of some of our poorer performing homes to both reduce residents’ energy bills and to support our ambition of York being carbon neutral by 2030.