this morning an entirely written in the morning blogpost.
yesterday horsemouth, james, colin, liam, alex and jamie got the band back together and relaunched the decarbonisation bid. they have 13 days to get the bid done and in - it's a bid that they have largely done it before and will now have to tweak it to the new revised circumstances.
instead of insulating the property to the 90kwh/m2/year higher C heating requirement (that would set the property up nicely for fitting an air source heat pump at a later date) the government now wants such measures added that get the properties up to an energy performance certificate C rating with little or no overperformance (a considerably lower target). the government contribution has been lowered also from £10k per dwelling to a maximum of £7,500.
where the new scheme has improved is that it offers £20k on 10% of properties to insulate the property to the required level and install an air-source heat pump - so that would be one home for the communal endeavour.
horsemouth is confident they have the money to do it and he's confident they can achieve the EPC C on all the properties by the end of 2028 (largely because the people they are paying to put the bid together tell him so and they all know what they are doing).
the government has opened up a pathway where housing organisations with less than 100 properties not in a consortium may bid. now to see if this pathway will actually work.
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yesterday also a walk on the common and later a walk to the village (ewyas harold) and back.
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