In the UK 8.4million households are in fuel poverty. In rural areas and many of our market and coastal towns, a combination of older housing stock and fuel poverty makes retro-fitting and better insulation of homes imperative, particularly in the face of longer, drier summers and colder winters. As examples of recent investment, Norfolk was awarded £3.9m and Suffolk £8.2m in Home Upgrade Grant (HUG) phase 2 funding from the government and this investment will make valuable inroads into improving the situation.
Such is the scale of the challenge that we must go further to reduce household bills, improve health outcomes and address rural fuel poverty. A clear avenue to supercharge this work is through the region’s contribution to energy generation, where communities impacted by new generation and transmission projects could benefit from community benefit packages funded by developers.
Better Insulated Homes
