Water from disused mines could be used to heat homes and businesses in Wales under plans being explored by the Welsh Government. A £450,000 project will look at whether the water has the potential to play a vital role in… Read more »
Decarbonisation
Next steps for housing skills
Tenant expertise should be at forefront of the green skills challenge, says a new report from CIH Cymru and Aico. The sector insight report engaged a wide range of professionals to understand skills linked to delivering on some of the… Read more »
Investment boost for Sero Technologies
Insurance company Legal and General and Welsh bank Hodge have invested £5.5 million in energy technology and services company Sero Technologies. The equity agreement gives than a stake of just under 30 per cent in the Cardiff-based company that has… Read more »
Welsh Government sets out Budget commitments for housing
New social housing, decarbonisation and a second phase of the Building Safety Fund all feature in Welsh Government’s three-year Draft Budget published on Monday. The plans announced by finance minister Rebecca Evans set out spending plans for 2022/23 and indicative… Read more »
Social housing retrofit gets £150m boost
Welsh Government has announced an additional £150m to retrofit social homes with new technologies and insulation to help curb carbon emissions. The funding will be part of the Optimised Retrofit Programme to assess what technologies work best in individual homes… Read more »
Social housing to lead the way to net zero
Ministers have called for ‘a decade of action’ on climate change to achieve a net zero Wales. First minister Mark Drakeford and climate change minister Julie James published Net Zero Wales, Welsh Government’s Second Carbon Budget, on Thursday covering the… Read more »
Fossil fuels ban is key milestone in road to decarbonisation
The housing sector in Wales is looking forward to the end of this working week – not because it signals the start of the weekend, but because it signals the start of something much bigger. From Friday, October 1, new… Read more »
United Welsh brings timber frame factory to Caerphilly
The United Welsh Group is developing a factory in the heart of Caerphilly to build timber frame, low carbon homes. Due to open this autumn, the factory will manufacture high quality, sustainable timber frame structures complete with factory fitted insulation… Read more »
Quality requirements set heating, recycling and space standards for new social homes
Fossil fuel heating will be banned in new social homes from October and Welsh Government wants private developers to adopt the same new build standards by 2025. The move is part of a Welsh Government commitment to renewable energies and… Read more »
Minister hails doubled funding for low-carbon social homes
Climate change minister Julie James has hailed one of Wales’s first ‘positive energy’ social housing schemes as ‘an exemplar’ for developers, housing associations and councils to follow in the drive to build 20,000 new low carbon homes for rent. Visiting Wales… Read more »