“We must take urgent action to transform, our existing housing and make it fit for for the 21st Century”

The Existing Homes Alliance Scotland is a coalition calling for urgent action to transform Scotland's existing housing stock and make it fit for the 21st century. Too many of Scotland's homes are in a poor condition meaning unnecessarily high fuel use.

ExHA is calling for an ambitious National Retrofit Programme of low-carbon refurbishment of Scotland's homes to cut greenhouse gas emissions and tackle fuel poverty. Such a programme makes environmental, social and economic sense. 

We are working with all sectors to develop this programme of radical low-carbon refurbishment and explore the role each sector can play in making it a reality. Please read our declaration and show your support by joining here.

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Report of Green Deal workshop

Following our Green Deal/ECO event and workshops we have produced a short report covering our main concerns which can be found here. Our consultation response can be viewed here while the presentations for the day are here.

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National Retrofit Strategy

ExHA argues that a National Retrofit Programme is vital in order to improve the energy efficiency of Scotland's homes to help tackle the scourge of fuel poverty and the threat of climate change.

Download a short brief here or the full policy paper here

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Minimum energy standards for homes

ExHA calls for the introduction of minimum energy standards for homes.

 

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Annual update

A breif overview of ExHA's activities in its first year can be found here

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10 Keys Recommendations

1. A Scottish Retrofit Strategy for Existing Homes, as part of an overall strategy for housing, aiming to achieve at least 42% carbon emissions reduction by 2020.

2. A timetable for the introduction of new regulation and planning controls, backed by market incentives, to improve the energy performance of existing homes.

3. Scotland-wide area-based schemes for retrofitting existing homes alongside a national, demand-led, programme.

4. A range of financial incentives to encourage investment in energy efficiency and micro-generation.

5. New service offerings, products and packages for retrofit.

6. Better information for consumers on household energy use and its carbon emissions.

7. Better energy performance data on existing housing.

8. Reliable quality control and up-skilling on low and zero-carbon technologies.

9. A major programme to catalogue and showcase existing and ongoing exemplar low energy refurbishments.

10. UK energy and tax policy provide incentives to cut emissions.

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