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Warm Front Grants

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Source:
Warm Front Grants
Date of data:
Annual
Data supplied:
December 2007

Warm front grants are available to make homes warmer and more energy efficient.

The grant provides a package of insulation and heating improvements up to the value of £2,700. Warm Front is a Government funded initiative and is managed by EAGA

  • Loft Insulation - EAGA can arrange for two layers of loft insulation. This reduces heat loss by up to 25%.
  • Cavity Wall Insulation can reduce heat loss by up to 35%.
  • Central Heating - EAGA can arrange to have boilers and existing central heating systems fixed and install new gas, electric or oil central heating systems

Warm Front grants are available to home owners and people who rent from private landlords.

See Warm Front Grants  for full details

Detailed information about every Warm Front Grant is supplied to Local Authorities who may have forwarded the data to Hi4em by postcode rather than full address level.

As well as detailed information about the work carried out, EAGA have, in most instances, calculated:

  • The likely reduction in CO2 emissions as a result of the work
  • The likely reduction in energy use
  • The likely reduction in running costs

This data is included for 2006-07 but not for 2005-06. This is because changes in the administration of Warm Front Grants during 2005-06 resulted in patchy data being recorded. Including this data would present a false picture of what has been achieved.

Although the 2006-07 data is more extensive it remains incomplete and should be viewed as indicative only. In particular there are many cases where the CO2 emissions, energy consumption and running costs before the work was carried out have not been recorded. Reductions cannot, therefore, be calculated.

The detailed work information has been summarised into several categories and these have been used as proxy indicators of whether the Thermal Comfort element of the Decent Homes Standard has been achieved or the measures undertaken have simply contributed to increased energy efficiency.

Those deemed to have addressed the Thermal Comfort element of the Decent Homes Standard are:

  • Boiler replacement
  • Electric heating
  • Gas central heating radiators
  • Heating system repairs
  • Loft insulation
  • Oil fired central heating and boilers

Measures where the Thermal Comfort element of the Decent Homes Standard may already have been achieved are:

  • Cylinder jackets and wall heaters
  • Cavity wall insulation
  • Low energy lights and draught proofing

All Warm Front Grants have then been categorised as:

  • Those that have addressed the thermal comfort element of the Decent Homes Standard
  • Those of a more minor nature only where a lack of thermal comfort may have been addressed or may not have been an existing problem.

In processing the data from postcodes to census output areas a small number of records failed to find a match and are not included here. The number of records and the number not matching are

2005-06 - 6617 records, xx not matched, xx% processed
2006-07 - xxx records, xx not matched, xx% processed

It should be noted that Warm Front Grants only contribute towards making homes occupied by vulnerable households decent. A number of Local Authorities are working with Warm Front to determine where Warm Front work has resulted in a home being made decent and where further assistance through the Local Authority is required to address other failures of the Decent Homes Standard.