NHC attend roundtable with DESNZ Minister | Northern Housing Consortium

Last week, the Northern Housing Consortium’s (NHC) Executive Director of Policy and External Relations, Patrick Murray, attended a roundtable with the Minister for Energy Consumers, Miatta Fahnbulleh.

The roundtable brought together representatives from the NHC, the National Housing Federation (NHF), Chartered Institute of Housing, Local Government Association (LGA), the National Federation of Almos (NFA) and affordable housing providers to help inform the government’s Warm Homes Plan.

Discussions focused on how the housing sector can rapidly scale up the number of homes receiving energy efficiency improvements in the coming years, the need for long-term retrofit funding and how devolution and an area-based approach can best support the delivery of large scale retrofit programmes, amongst other topics.

The roundtable also included conversations on the need for regeneration to play a part in the government’s plans to improve both the quality and energy efficiency of existing homes and communities, in line with the NHC’s Spending Review submission submitted to government earlier this year.

The NHC published a report last year, Warm Homes, Green Jobs, focusing on how long term, consistent retrofit funding and wider government policy can support the scale up of retrofit supply chains and support the creation of thousands of new jobs.

Patrick Murray, NHC’s Executive Director (Policy and External Relations) said:

“It was great to talk to the Minister about how we can tackle fuel poverty and cut carbon emissions through investment in more energy efficient homes, and in particular explore the role of devolution in delivery of funding and the wider links to regeneration.”