Willmott Dixon Partnerships’ highly experienced teams have successfully carried out over £100 million of residential stock improvement across the UK. Under the Decent Homes programme, the company has made over 10,000 homes ‘Decent’ since 2003, including work to improve thermal efficiency and reduce residents’ energy bills.
Like with repairs and maintenance, Partnerships sets up dedicated management and engineers teams for each client, usually working together in the same office alongside the client’s housing team to deliver a seamless programme of improvement to residents’ houses.
Mostly, stock improvement work is carried out as part of larger long-term repairs and maintenance contracts.
Affordable warmth
With the emphasis switching from Decent Homes to affordable warmth investment, Partnerships is helping to advise clients on how they can ensure their housing stock, much of it over 40 years old, is improved for the low carbon, high energy efficiency future that is coming.
Low carbon blue print
To help improve understanding of how to affordably create low carbon housing stock, Partnerships recently equipped a 1930s-built semi-detached house in Barnsley to help take the family out of fuel poverty.
As well we the family seeing their heating bills nearly half, the home went from an E rating in environmental impact and energy efficiency to an A rating - all at reasonable cost.
The transformation included new gas boiler, cavity wall insulation, internal insulation, double glazing, plus solar heating. This resulted in an expected £477 cut in the home’s annual gas bill, a saving of nearly 45 per cent.
The house is regarded as one of the first to be a blue print to show how it’s possible to turn ageing housing stock into low carbon, energy efficient places to live.
