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The Existing Homes Alliance | Scotland

campaigning for the transformation of Scotland's existing housing stock

Sustainable Housing Strategy – Alliance welcomes vision for warm low carbon homes

24 September 2012

The Alliance welcomes the vision set out in the Sustainable Housing Strategy  for existing housing – “warm, high quality, affordable, low carbon homes.”  In our consultation response to the draft strategy, we set out 10 recommendations for taking forward this agenda. The recommendations are listed below:
1. A Scottish Retrofit Strategy for Existing Homes, as part of an overall strategy for housing, aiming to achieve at least 42% carbon emissions reduction by 2020.
2. A timetable for the introduction of new regulation and planning controls, backed by market incentives, to improve the energy performance of existing homes.
3. Scotland-wide area-based schemes for retrofitting existing homes alongside a national, demand-led, programme.
4. A range of financial incentives to encourage investment in energy efficiency and micro-generation.
5. New service offerings, products and packages for retrofit.
6. Better information for consumers on household energy use and its carbon emissions.
7. Better energy performance data on existing housing.
8. Reliable quality control and up-skilling on low and zero-carbon technologies.
9. A major programme to catalogue and showcase existing and ongoing exemplar low energy refurbishments.
10. UK energy and tax policy provide incentives to cut emissions.

Read the full consultation response  EXHAS_shsconsultation_Sept27

Read the briefing  SHS consultatio EXHA brief

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10 Key Recommendations

1 The Energy Efficient Scotland Programme, the cornerstone of the National Infrastructure Priority for energy efficiency, should have a statutory underpinning, including a target for the vast majority of housing (where technically feasible and appropriate) to reach the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) band C by 2030.

2 The introduction of new regulation and planning controls, backed by market incentives, to improve the energy efficiency of existing homes.

3 Scotland-wide area-based schemes to deliver retrofit of existing homes, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, street by street, alongside a national, demand led programme.

4 A range of financial incentives to encourage investment in energy efficiency and micro-generation.

5 New service offerings, products and packages for retrofit.

6 Better information on household energy use and its carbon emissions for consumers.

7 Better energy performance data on existing housing.

8 Reliable quality control and up-skilling on low and zero-carbon technologies.

9 A major programme to catalogue and showcase existing and ongoing exemplar low energy refurbishments.

10 Maximise use of devolved powers and influence UK policy to improve energy efficiency.

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The Existing Homes Alliance Scotland is a coalition calling for urgent action to transform Scotland's existing housing stock and make it fit for the 21st century. Too many of Scotland's homes are in a poor condition meaning unnecessarily high fuel use.

We gratefully acknowledge funding support from the William Grant Foundation.

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