Liverpool affordable housing provider Plus Dane secures more than £2.5m towards a £5m programme to improve energy efficiency in more than 300 homes. Tony McDonough reports
Plus Dane Housing will invest £5m to improve energy efficiency in more than 300 homes in Liverpool city region.
Liverpool-based Plus Dane, which owns or manages around 14,000 affordable homes in Merseyside and Cheshire has secured £2.57m from the Warm Homes Social Housing Fund, through the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.
This funding is provided by the Government’s Warm Homes initiative to improve the energy performance of homes. It follows two previously successful rounds of funding through the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund.
Plus Dane will add its own funds to create a £5m programme that will see measures including loft insulation, solar panels, underfloor insulation, cavity wall insulation, low energy lights, internal and external wall insulation.
Funding through Wave 1 and 2 has already delivered improvements to more than 600 Plus Dane homes, following successful bids totalling £6m, all matched by Plus Dane. In total it has delivered almost £12m of energy efficiency improvements since 2023.
Chris Morris, executive director customer, communities and homes at Plus Dane, said: “We are investing £62m in our existing homes between 2024 and 2027 including projects like this which will make our homes warmer and more affordable.
“Keeping our homes warm and safe is our main priority and customers have already seen the benefits of the work done so far. We are grateful to the Combined Authority for their support which means we can improve even more homes in the coming years.”
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Ultimate goal of the programme will be the improved energy performance of its homes, with the aim of bringing them up to an EPC C rating or above. This will result in more than £16.5m investment to over 900 Plus Dane homes.
Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram added: “Too many families are still forced to choose between heating and eating – and that’s simply not right. This investment is a significant step towards fixing that.”
