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Birmingham Homeowners to be Given Help to Improve Properties
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The Birmingham city council has promised to give homeowners across Birmingham free surveys to help them improve their homes. The focus of these surveys will be to improve energy efficiency, reducing carbon emissions and keeping homes better insulated.
Over the next three months, around 2,000 homes will be chosen at random to be inspected. These surveys will point out specific ways in which each home can become more energy efficient, including by the fitting of double glazing windows and other measures that can also help to reduce energy bills.
The new scheme is also aimed at assessing just how well these homes rate against the Government Decent Homes standard in terms of how energy efficient they are.
Those behind the scheme say that they are hoping to provide help to those who need to make improvements, after having already invested £600 million to improve 65,000 council homes with the addition of uPVC windows, new kitchens and central heating.
Cabinet member for housing, Councillor John Lines, said that ‘this survey is crucial for us to be able to gather essential information which will help us further improve conditions in the private sector’.
He added that they have already looked at tackling a number of other issues in the private sector, and now they are moving onto energy efficiency. This will ensure that vulnerable homeowners are given support to live in warm homes that will also benefit from measures to reduce energy bills.