Apply now totally free power effectivity enhancements

Eligible Canterbury district residents can now apply for a grant from town council to have power effectivity enhancements put in of their house fully freed from cost.

The council lately efficiently bid for £1.5 million of central authorities funding beneath its Warm Homes Local Grant..

The cash pays for a spread of totally funded measures together with house insulation, boiler upgrades and photo voltaic panels. The purpose is to assist owners in gasoline poverty lower your expenses on their payments, present hotter properties and assist the district with its progress to reaching internet zero.

To be eligible to obtain Warm Homes Local Grant funding, a house owner should meet at the least one the next standards:

• Households in sure low-income areas – letters have already been despatched to owners in eligible postcode areas
• Households the place an occupant (aside from a lodger) is in receipt of sure means-tested advantages – together with Housing Benefit, Universal Credit and Pension Credit
• Households with a gross annual earnings of beneath £36,000. Homeowners can also be eligible if their family earnings is increased than £36,000 however their housing prices – reminiscent of hire and mortgage funds – are notably excessive

In addition, to be eligible, the property should not have an present power efficiency certificates score of above D, and solely non-public house homeowners are capable of apply.

Separate schemes are at present underway to enhance the power effectivity of the council’s personal inventory of social housing.

Cabinet member for the surroundings and local weather change, Cllr Mel Dawkins, mentioned: “We are actually happy to have received this vital sum of cash from the federal government and are trying ahead to reworking the lives of residents throughout the district by means of these enhancements to their properties.

“I might urge anybody who meets the eligibility standards to look into the choices which might be obtainable to them and provides severe consideration to making use of.

“The funding is limited to the amount we have been awarded so an early application is advised in order to avoid disappointment.”

The council has gone into partnership with Aran Insulation, who will ship the energy-saving work on its behalf. The firm has delivered comparable schemes in partnership with neighbouring native authorities.

The scheme will run till March 2028 and households can apply on the national government website.

Council officers might be obtainable to assist residents by means of the method. Anyone with questions can e mail warmhomes@canterbury.gov.uk for recommendation.

Published: 17 November 2025