GLA MTMEES Social Housing Provider survey

ACE Research, at the Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE) is undertaking a research project for the Greater London Authority (GLA). The project is to develop a concise and accessible report on how to extend and implement Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) across housing tenures.

In London, the declaration of a climate emergency has been translated into an ambition to reach net zero by 2030. In addition to existing MEES standards in the large and ever increasing Private Rented Sector (PRS) in the capital, the Mayor has called for MEES policy to be expanded into social and owner-occupied tenures.

This research takes place at a pivotal time for UK energy policy in housing. With the declarations of climate emergencies and a plethora of policy announcements and consultations recently announced or due in the coming months there is a real sense of opportunity.

As part of this project, ACE Research is looking at policy drivers, barriers to energy retrofit uptake and enforcement, and the environmental, economic and social impacts of such policies, as well as the potential delivery models and governance structures that could be used to extend MEES to other tenures.

We are seeking feedback from Social Housing Providers (SHP) to understand resourcing levels, capacity and ambition to facilitate retrofit in housing and barriers to uptake and enforcement that are specific to their housing stock.

The information collected from this survey will be analysed and reviewed by the ACE Research team and the GLA. Any information detailed in our report will be anonymised.

If you have any questions about the project, please contact Steph Hacker (steph.hacker@theade.co.uk)

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* 1. Name of Social Housing Provider:

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* 2. Details of the respondent:

Name

Title

Contact information

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* 3. Does your organisation have a current carbon reduction strategy and action plan focusing on domestic properties?

Yes (Does this include any specific SAP based targets e.g. EPC band C by 2030?)

No (Are you planning to develop one?)

Please share a link to your strategy

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* 4. Do you have support for such activities from senior management?

Yes

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* 5. Are you involved in any programmes that cover multiple housing tenures? If yes, please could you provide a high-level summary of this activity, including what tenures these programmes cover?

Yes

If yes, please provide further commentary

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* 6. Please can you rank what you think are the key barriers to retrofit in your housing stock below? (1 being the most important barrier, 5 being the least important)

Barrier 1:

Barrier 2:

Barrier 3:

Barrier 4:

Barrier 5:

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* 7. What resources do you have to deliver action in domestic retrofit? Please provide an indication of roles (broken down by FTE), across your organisation.

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* 8. If MEES were extended to the social housing tenure, what support would you need to ensure this could be delivered in your organisation?

Additional funding?

Additional staffing resources?

What else?

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* 9. Do you think extending MEES to the social housing tenure would be a useful mechanism for:

Delivery of carbon reductions in domestic properties?

Supply chain development?

Addressing fuel poverty?

Improving health and well-being?

Please provide further commentary for those answers you have selected

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* 10. Do you have any concerns around the extension of MEES into the social housing tenure?

Yes

Please provide further commentary on your answer

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* 11. Would you want the standard and trajectory for MEES to be set at a national or local level?

National

Local

Please provide further commentary on your answer

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* 12. Do you support the broad principal of extending MEES to other tenures?

Yes

Maybe

Please provide further commentary on your answer

GLA MTMEES Social Housing Provider survey

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* 1. Name of Social Housing Provider:

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* 2. Details of the respondent:

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* 3. Does your organisation have a current carbon reduction strategy and action plan focusing on domestic properties?

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* 4. Do you have support for such activities from senior management?

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* 5. Are you involved in any programmes that cover multiple housing tenures? If yes, please could you provide a high-level summary of this activity, including what tenures these programmes cover?

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* 6. Please can you rank what you think are the key barriers to retrofit in your housing stock below? (1 being the most important barrier, 5 being the least important)

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* 7. What resources do you have to deliver action in domestic retrofit? Please provide an indication of roles (broken down by FTE), across your organisation.

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* 8. If MEES were extended to the social housing tenure, what support would you need to ensure this could be delivered in your organisation?

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* 9. Do you think extending MEES to the social housing tenure would be a useful mechanism for:

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* 10. Do you have any concerns around the extension of MEES into the social housing tenure?

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* 11. Would you want the standard and trajectory for MEES to be set at a national or local level?

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* 12. Do you support the broad principal of extending MEES to other tenures?

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* 13. Any other feedback you’d like to provide that isn’t covered by the questions above?