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Planet A

We aim to make a positive contribution to creating environmentally sustainable futures for generations to come, with tenants thriving in low energy homes and greener places.

Here’s how we are doing…

The year in review

Following our successful bid with a consortium of partners in the Northeast and Yorkshire for £1.1m of Government funding, we have completed 100 installations of energy efficiency improvements to homes. In total, the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund, combined with our own investment of £1.65 million, will enable us to improve energy efficiency to 349 homes between 2023-2025.

Through energy efficiency improvements carried out, we have increased the average energy efficiency to 72.38 which is in the top quartile performance of social housing providers.

Using the data held on our homes we have targeted our energy efficiency improvement work to the homes where this will be of most benefit. In total we carried out energy efficiency to 1,260 homes but over 500 tenants partially or fully omitted from the energy efficiency works.

The total energy saved by completing energy efficiency improvement works to homes is more than 3 million KW hours. The works have also reduced the carbon emissions by 888 tonnes.

We listened (Customer Voice - satisfaction surveys)

You told us that we needed to improve communication in terms of how we keep you engaged and informed during the planning and delivery of energy efficiency works.

We acted

We now hold customer engagement events for when you are due to receive energy efficiency improvements in your home, to keep you updated prior to works starting and to better understand any specific needs you have.

Since implementation, we have held four customer engagement events with a total of over 40 tenants attending. Satisfaction that we keep you informed has increased by 6% following these changes.

We listened (Energy efficiency works event)

You told us that you were concerned that you would lose valuable storage space when we planned to install equipment for solar PV panels in your cupboards.

We acted

We changed the specification and developed a way of installing the equipment to the outside of your homes to ensure that you benefited from the energy efficiency works without losing your storage space.

Have you read our summarised policies?

We have summarised our customer policies to make them accessible and easy to read.