horsemouth ponders decarbonisation

nothing much happening on the diary front so horsemouth has chosen to ponder decarbonisation (close up) 

£1.29 billion has been allocated by the government  for the warm homes: social housing fund wave 3 as part of the autumn 2024 budget. it is to be delivered from from april 2025 until april 2028.

2025/2026 2026/2027 2027/2028

£374 million £459 million £459 million

that's an awful lot of money (but there are an awful lot lot of homes).

horsemouth's lot (the communal endeavour) have got their application in. 

now it's just a matter of waiting until the competition is decided and then the agreeing of details and the signing of agreements begins. last time the government were somewhat tardy in informing people if they had been successful. horsemouth expects the same this time but there's no definite detail or firm date as yet. 

if they don't get the government money horsemouth thinks his lot will be going ahead anyway (they may have to stretch the schedule out). in any even they need all the co-op owned properties up to an EPC (energy performance certificate) C rating by 2030 or they're in trouble with the regulator. 

as it stands they have a plan for the 8 co-op owned houses (and the 6 flats in houses) but have not surveyed the 12 co-op owned flats (in local authority or similar blocks). 3 of these flats are in local authority blocks that are being worked on already. horsemouth guesses that with the boiler upgrades the co-op has done already the majority of these flats will be at an EPC C already but he could do with knowing for sure if any of them aren't. 

assuming all goes well horsemouth would expect to start the wave 3 scheme in april and be beginning to deliver measures in june/july. once it is all up and running that would probably be the time to look at the flats. 

horsemouth is fast coming to a realisation that he will be leaving the co-op sooner rather than later and so will not be around to see all this in its full beauty/ horror. horsemouth thinks a generational change is under way - he thinks himself, l1, e1 (and perhaps p1) are off to the great communal endeavour  retirement home in the sky. this would leave l2, j, e2, k, s, v, p2, and g (the serial abstainer).

of course at some point it all ceases to be horsemouth's problem.  

yesterday he put up more of the chicken wire (badly) and went for a 45 minute walk on the common. he'll need a third roll to complete the fencing. he'll also need to go back and bury  the bottom of the wire to make it difficult for the hens to tunnel underneath it. it's not a thing of beauty (especially close up) but it will do.