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The Welsh Government has allocated an additional £17m to home energy efficiency schemes following a review of its Warm Homes Programme. Announced by housing minister Siân Gwenllian in July, the funding comes from existing budgets within her portfolio and will… Read more »
Housing associations across Wales are supporting the launch of an innovative net zero hub aiming to cut carbon emissions from new and existing social homes. The registered social landlords are coming together with developers, residential social landlords, and owners to… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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